Logjams give refuge to salmon during record-breaking summer
Temperatures on the Stillaguamish River reached record highs while flows reached record lows this summer, which can be fatal for…
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Eatonville Dispatch: New Mashel River logjams to protect salmon and property
From the Dispatch: New logjams in the Mashel River Ð being built this summer by the Nisqually Indian Tribe Ð…
Tacoma News Tribune: Eatonville Logjams part of bigger picture
The Tacoma News Tribune follows up on several stories a few weeks ago on the Nisqually Tribe’s logjam project in…
Mashel restoration near Eatonville
Taking out a rock berm, replacing it with logjams in Eatonville. The Olympian: Two tracked excavators rumbled through the diverted,…
Nisqually Tribe Restores Yelm Creek Salmon Habitat
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.