Chris Dunagan from the Kitsap Sun posted about bull trout being saved from the Elwha River. Many agencies and groups, including the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, assisted moving nearly 100…
Restoring native vegetation along the North Fork Nooksack River, the Lummi Nation faces an unlikely adversary: nature.
The tribe has planted a streamside buffer near Bells Creek, where invasive knotweed, elk and beavers threaten the survival of the freshly planted trees.
Last year, Lummi Natural Resources placed large pieces of wood in Bells Creek to create protected pools for spawning coho salmon, steelhead and bull trout. A history of removing wood and straightening the channel for flood control had left the creek devoid of quality salmon habitat.
The next step was to plant trees in the 2-acre buffer along the creek near its confluence with the North Fork Nooksack River and within 17 acres of existing hardwood stands nearby. Whatcom Land Trust owns the property. (more…)
The Skagit Valley Herald (story not available online) reported last week on the SRF Board funding in Skagit County, which included several Skagit River System Cooperative and Upper Skagit Tribe project:
Local habitat efforts get state’s second-largest share of grant
A grant agency saw the value of protecting salmon in Skagit County. Organizations here have received $6.3 million from the Salmon Recovery Funding Board to restore salmon habitat.
Projects in Skagit County are getting the second-largest grant total in the state behind King County’s $7.1 million.The board awarded more than $60 million in salmon recovery grants statewide.
Tacoma News Tribune: Federally protected stocks of salmon and bull trout will lose if the state goes ahead with its proposal to divvy up White River water between Lake Tapps…
Bellingham Herald: With only 210 adult chinook salmon returning to the north and middle forks, and 120 returning to the south fork to spawn in 2005, fish managers are grappling…
KOMO 4: Fish biologists armed with radio antennae were out tracking trout on Friday. They are on the White River in King and Pierce Counties trying to help out the…
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.