Video: Skokomish, Mason County complete wood project in Skokomish Tidelands
The Skokomish Tribe and Mason Conservation District collaborated on a project to install more than 200 pieces of large woody…
Tag: Salmon Habitat Restoration
Work party Saturday to restore habitat on South Fork Nooksack
A property identified by the Nooksack Tribe as a priority for wetland restoration has been acquired by the Whatcom Land…
The Olympian: Tribe uses Alder Lake debris for salmon restoration
From the Olympian this morning, an article about using trees from behind Alder Lake dam to restore a stretch of…
Federal Update for April 2009
APPROPRIATIONS FY ’09 Tribal efforts were successful in the restoration of the Pacific Salmon Treaty funding for FY09 in its…
Healing of Hyas Creek From 1951 Fire Gets a Boost From Cooperative Effort
“There are only two anadromous fish-bearing tributaries in that portion of the South Fork Calawah drainage and Hyas Creek is one of them,” said Phil DeCillis, fisheries biologist for USFS. “It had the least amount of wood per mile of the streams we surveyed, so it was important to get more in there. The tributaries are important refuge areas for fish.”
Scientists receive $900,000 federal grant
Greg Hood of SRSC is among a group of scientists receiving a grant to devise a computer model of the…
Herald: Smith Island to nurture salmon
The Everett Herald has a story on plans by Snohomish County, in cooperation with Tulalip Tribes, to restore salmon habitat…
Mashel restoration near Eatonville
Taking out a rock berm, replacing it with logjams in Eatonville. The Olympian: Two tracked excavators rumbled through the diverted,…
Bellingham Herald: Nooksack salmon habitat restoration set to begin
The few spring chinook salmon that make it back to their spawning grounds on the Nooksack River’s south fork next year will be returning to comparative luxury.
Deep pools, abundant cover and cool water will greet them at the mouth of Hutchinson Creek near Acme. It will be a vast improvement over the current arrangement – the creek now resembles a quiet side street merging straight into the south fork freeway.
Nooksack and Lummi tribal natural resources workers will start this summer on one of the biggest salmon habitat restoration projects in the region in an effort to revive dwindling stocks of spring chinook salmon and bull trout.The project is expected to cost at least $1 million, paid for by federal salmon recovery grants.