The Suquamish Tribe’s Doe Kag Wats estuary is the site of a large woody debris removal experiment this summer. ”Our hypothesis is that by removing the excess amount of the milled and treated logs that have washed into the estuary, the native marsh vegetation will be restored, as well as insect species, many of which […]
A five-year monitoring effort has shown that the Fisher Slough restoration project has benefited juvenile chinook even more than predicted in the Skagit River Salmon Recovery Plan. The Nature Conservancy led the project to restore tidal marsh habitat and connectivity in the Skagit watershed using a dike setback and a floodgate. Once the project was […]
Completion is in sight for the Qwuloolt project, one of the largest estuary restorations in the country. Restoring tidal flow to the 400-acre estuary is a partnership among the Tulalip Tribes, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the city of Marysville, as well as other local, state and federal agencies. Planning for the $11 million […]
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is restoring salmon habitat in the 118-acre Washington Harbor by replacing a roadway and two culverts with a 600-foot-long bridge. The 600-foot-long road and the two 6-foot-wide culverts restrict tidal flow to a 37-acre estuary within the harbor adjacent to Sequim Bay, blocking fish access and harming salmon habitat. The tribe […]
The Lummi Nation is enhancing nearly 2,000 acres of habitat in the Nooksack and Lummi river deltas as part of the first federally backed tribal wetland and habitat mitigation bank. Eventually, credits in the bank will be sold or transferred to developers who are required to mitigate for unavoidable adverse effects their projects might have […]
The Skokomish Tribe and Mason Conservation District collaborated on a project to install more than 200 pieces of large woody debris (logs and rootwads) into channels within the Skokomish Tidelands. This video explains why and how massive logs are being transported into the tidelands. The story behind this project can be found here.
A property identified by the Nooksack Tribe as a priority for wetland restoration has been acquired by the Whatcom Land Trust. The land trust and Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association are having a work party to plant native vegetation from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 13. Directions: From Bellingham, head east on Mount Baker Highway […]
From the Olympian this morning, an article about using trees from behind Alder Lake dam to restore a stretch of salmon habitat: Logs and other woody debris delivered during winter storms to the reservoir behind Alder Dam are a safety hazard for boaters and a headache for Tacoma Power maintenance crews in this popular recreation […]
“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 […]
Greg Hood of SRSC is among a group of scientists receiving a grant to devise a computer model of the Skagit River Delta and Skagit and Padilla bays if the oceans rise. The Skagit Valley Herald: Rising ocean levels could change change approaches to restoration of salt marshes and the Skagit River estuary that the […]
