Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association
Featured Project: Nookack River Stewards Program
RFEG: Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association
The Nooksack River Stewards Program, in partnership with the Mt. Baker – Snoqualmie National Forest, educates residents and visitors about wild salmon and responsible stewardship in the Nooksack River Watershed. All program initiatives aim to foster hope for residents and showcase for visitors how collective action can result in progressive salmon recovery goals.
Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group
Featured Project: Carey's Creek Fish Passage Project
RFEG: Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group
This project will replace a barrier culvert on Carey’s Creek, a tributary to the Skagit River, restoring access to habitat for coho salmon, Chinook, steelhead and resident trout.
North Olympic Salmon Coalition
Featured Project: Killisut Harbor Habitat Restoration
RFEG: North Olympic Salmon Coalition
Reopening the passage from Oak Bay to Kilisut Harbor by replacing culverts with a bridge, in partnership with Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, and Port Gamble S’Klallam tribes, among others.
Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition
Featured Project: Quilleyute Valley School District Partnership
RFEG: Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition
PCSC had the opportunity to mentor a Forks High School Senior, Karma Lapin, in completing her senior project. She volunteered at the Bogachiel Steelhead Hatchery netting, counting, spawning adult steelhead that had returned to the hatchery. The steelhead that were food-quality (about 1500 fish) were processed and distributed to the Forks Food Bank and other local charities. The steelhead that were not food-quality (about 8,000) were distributed as high up the Quileute River Watershed tributaries as possible to decompose in the stream, providing rich nutrients to all aquatic life throughout the system.
Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group
Featured Project: Union River Summer Chum Monitoring
RFEG: Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group
Monitoring Summer Chum on the Union River fish trap from mid August to Mid October. Trap is staffed 24/7 by community volunteers.
Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force
Featured Project: Bush Creek Fish Barrier Construction
RFEG: Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force
Removal of three fish passage barrier culverts and replacement with structures that are fully passable to all aquatic species at all life stages.
Willapa Bay Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group
Featured Project: Remote Stream Incubators (RSIs)
Staff, board and volunteers of Willapa Bay Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group install Remote Stream Incubators (RSIs) each year. RSIs are systems often installed in streams to allow salmon eggs to be reared and released with minimal handling. Some years, they have released 1.4 million fish!
Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group
Featured Project: South Fork Toutle Habitat Restoration
RFEG: Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group
A strategic effort of past and future projects in the South Fork Toutle River, including the tributaries. It seeks to enhance off-channel habitat with wood structures, and restore riparian vegetation.
South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group
Featured Project: South Prairie Habitat Restoration
RFEG: South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group
The South Prairie Creek project will allow salmon easier upstream migration during higher flows, and increase cold groundwater to help summer low flow temperatures for juvenile and adult salmonids. It opened a historic side channel and then placed large engineered log jam at the opening to direct flows into the channel. Wood structures in the side channel will provide better habitat for both spawning and juvenile rearing for a variety of salmon species.
Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group
Featured Project: CATS and Sammamish River Riparian Restoration
RFEG: Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group
A participant in the Community Action Training School, 10-session training on the important issues around watershed restoration, chose to partner with Mid Sound on a riparian restoration project along the Sammamish River. Dana Kemmerling worked to organize quarterly work parties filled with local businesses as well as her own co-workers. In 2019, Dana helped Mid Sound conduct 5 volunteer events, engaging 115 people who donated 402 hours of labor. They removed invasives, installed mulch, and planted 564 native plants on 375 lineal feet of stream bank.
Mid Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group
Featured Project: Brown Bag Summer Solstice Series
RFEG: Mid Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group
Provided hands-on activities to students and families to learn about watersheds and salmon conservation after in-person and summer kids activities were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Sound Salmon Solutions
Featured Project: Jones Creek Virtual Field Trip
RFEG: Sound Salmon Solutions
This project provided a combination of recorded and live virtual field trip lessons to engage local 5th graders in water quality education.
Cascade Fisheries
Featured Project: Entiat Fish Passage and Screening Assessment
RFEG: Cascade Fisheries
Cascade Fisheries, in partnership with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Cascadia Conservation District, conducted a comprehensive fish passage and screening assessment of the Entiat watershed of fish bearing waters of the Entiat watershed.
Tri State Steelheaders
Featured Project: Bridge to Bridge Restoration, Phase II
RFEG: Tri State Steelheaders
Improving instream and riparian habitat through installations of woody structures and plantings on 0.6 mile reach of the Walla Walla River; adjoining previously completed work.