Logjams give refuge to salmon during record-breaking summer
Temperatures on the Stillaguamish River reached record highs while flows reached record lows this...
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Temperatures on the Stillaguamish River reached record highs while flows reached record lows this...
Read MoreJul 22, 2009 | News
From the Dispatch: New logjams in the Mashel River Ð being built this summer by the Nisqually Indian Tribe Ð will provide habitat for fish and help protect property from damaging floods. The series of logjams will help protect...
Read MoreSep 28, 2006 | News
The Tacoma News Tribune follows up on several stories a few weeks ago on the Nisqually Tribe’s logjam project in Eatonville. This project is part of a much larger picture: But this is just the start. The tribe and...
Read MoreSep 20, 2006 | News
Taking out a rock berm, replacing it with logjams in Eatonville. The Olympian: Two tracked excavators rumbled through the diverted, dry streambed of the Mashel River last week and dropped 40-foot trees and refrigerator-size...
Read MoreJun 24, 2004 | News
Almost ten years after a flood ravaged salmon habitat on Yelm Creek the Nisqually Tribe and the South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group are repairing some of the damage.
“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.
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