SEATTLE (Sept. 5, 2002) — Recipients for the 2002 Seventh Generation Legacy Award have been named by the Salmon Homecoming Alliance. The awards will be presented Friday at 7 p.m., September 6, as part of the festivities preceding the
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“This entire area was underwater in 1996,” said Teresa Moon, project manager for the SPSSEG. “The flood changed a lot across the watershed, for good and for bad.” The tribe and the enhancement group are digging out a pond that was filled with sediment during the flood and opening salmon access to the upper creek by modifying a fish-blocking logjam in a steep canyon.