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Cascade Fisheries
Learn MoreCascade Fisheries is a non-profit organization working within Chelan, Douglas, Okanogan and Ferry counties to cooperatively facilitate sustainable fisheries enhancement projects for future generations. Our…
Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force
Learn MoreThe mission of Chehalis Basin Fisheries Taskforce (CBFTF) is to produce salmon for sport and commercial fisheries; enhance steelhead and searun cutthroat trout resources; and restore,…
Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group
Learn MoreHood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group (HCSEG/The Salmon Center) strives to deepen the connection between land, people, and salmon through restoration, education, and research. Our mission…
Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group
Learn MoreThe mission of Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group (LCFEG) is to promote recovery of self sustaining, naturally spawning salmonid populations and healthy aquatic ecosystems.
Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group
Learn MoreMid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group (MSFEG) works with communities to maximize self-sustaining salmon populations. In King and Eastern Kitsap Counties, we work cooperatively with private…
Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group
Learn MoreMid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring wild salmonid populations and their habitats through restoration, protection, education, and community…
Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association
Learn MoreNooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (NSEA) is a community-based nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring sustainable wild salmon runs in Whatcom County of Washington state. We envision…
North Olympic Salmon Coalition
Learn MoreThe mission of North Olympic Salmon Coalition (The Salmon Coalition) is to restore, enhance, and protect the habitat of North Olympic Peninsula wild salmon stocks…
Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition
Learn MorePacific Coast Salmon Coalition (PCSC) is a grassroots, nonprofit volunteer-based organization whose mission is to be actively involved in local volunteer-based habitat restoration in order…
Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group
Learn MoreThe mission of Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group (SFEG) is to educate and engage the community in habitat restoration and watershed stewardship to enhance wild salmonids.
Sound Salmon Solutions
Learn MoreThe mission of Sound Salmon Solutions (SSS) is to ensure the future of salmon in the Stillaguamish, Snohomish, and Island County watersheds.
South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group
Learn MoreSouth Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group (SPSSEG) helps salmon from “The Mountains to the Sound.” We have all seven species of Pacific Salmon throughout our…
Tri-State Steelheaders Salmon Enhancement Group
Learn MoreThe mission of Tri-State Steelheaders is to restore sustainable populations of native salmonids by enhancing habitat, providing public education, and promoting recreational angling for future…
Willapa Bay Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group
Learn MoreThe Willapa Bay Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group (WBRFEG) is dedicated to the restoration of salmon habitat and salmon species survival throughout Washington State’s Pacific County.
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Mill Creek Fish Passage Project
The Mill Creek Flood Control Project is infrastructure built by the Corps of Engineers in the 1940s. It has saved Walla Walla many times from…
Kugel Creek Culvert Replacement Project
This culvert was on a Clallam County road that also happened to be part of the Olympic Discovery Trail. Not only was the culver old…
South Prairie Creek
The South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group (SPSSEG) has been working with project partners, including Puyallup Tribe of Indians, Pierce Conservation District (PCD), Pierce County…
Salish Scientists Summer Camp
Salish Scientists Summer Camp is an outdoor environmental education day camp for 4th to 6th graders developed by Sound Salmon Solutions in 2022. The camp…
Skagit Forks Wetland Reconnection
Where the Skagit River forks to create Fir Island, Skagit Fisheries implemented a restoration project to reconnect the outlet of Britt Slough and a large…
River’s Edge Revegetation Project
NOSC, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe (JSKT), Clallam Conservation District (CCD) and the Washington Conservation Corps (WCC) have embarked on a large-scale, collaborative 56-acre riparian planting on…
Ellensburg Adopt-a-Stream
Volunteer projects help us value of the natural world and the relationship between salmon, stream health, and human impacts. We are excited to see fish…
Salmon in Schools
HCSEG secured a two year contract with the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction that provided $465,000 per year (2021-2023) for Salmon in the…
Monitoring: Plants, Fish, Temperature & Habitat
Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (NSEA) performs implementation and effectiveness monitoring to ensure the success of our projects. We monitor the survival of our trees and…
Middle Fork Wildcat Creek Fish Passage Barrier Correction Project
This planning and restoration project will design, permit and construct 3 separate fish passage barrier corrections on Middle Fork Wildcat Creek north of McCleary, Washington,…
Camp Coweeman Restoration
The Coweeman River is flashy and primarily a single-thread channel designed to export materials (i.e., get logs to market), not to retain them. This minimizes…
Merritt Oxbow Project on Nason Creek
Like many streams in the Pacific Northwest, Nason Creek is pinched between a state highway and a railroad, reducing the creeks floodplain area and function.…
Restoring Fry to Willapa Bay Streams
Willapa Bay volunteers are working to restore chum salmon to many of the northern Willapa Bay streams through the use of Remote Site Incubators. Currently,…
Community Engagement in Auburn Parks
Since 2019, Mid Sound has partnered with the City of Auburn to engage community to restore riparian vegetation in several of their parks that on…
Chiwawa Nutrient Enhancement
In fall 2018, the Cascade Fisheries began a 5-year pilot of nutrient enhancement in the Chiwawa River. Project Goal: Subsidize marine derived nutrients to the…
South Fork Toutle – Little Cow Creek Restoration
Prior to the eruption of Mount Saint Helens in 1980, this high valley supported significant runs of Chinook, coho, steelhead, sea run cutthroat trout, and…
Clear Creek Fish Use Study
SPSSEG is coordinating work on behalf of the Floodplains for the Future partnership in the Puyallup Watershed to assess habitat restoration and fish utilization of…
McCormick Creek
NSEA removed three consecutive barriers on the McCormick Creek tributary, two barrier culverts and a concrete dam that was in between them. The culverts were…
Salmon as Food and Nutrients
Pacific Coast Salmon Salmon Coalition has ensured that returning salmon once viewed as "extra" are put to good use. Each year, not all salmon produced…
Oxbow Creek Remote Site Incubator
Willapa Bay RFEG has a long-running program of installing Remote Site Incubators (RSIs) in streams in their region. RSIs are stocked with fish eggs, and…
Geissler Creek Fish Passage Barrier Correction
During the summer of 2020, we completed a fish passage project that removed three barriers at three separate road crossings on Geissler Creek in the…
Seabeck Bridge and Culvert Replacement Project
Last year HCSEG completed construction of a new 60 foot bridge over Seabeck Creek. This project replaced a 72-in undersized culvert and failed fish ladder,…
Pressentin Park Side Channel
The goal of the Pressentin Park project is to enhance and reconnect historic and existing side channel habitat in Pressentin Park, along the Skagit River.…
Grant Creek Riparian Project
Empowering "community grit", Grant Creek embodies the work that we do as an RFEG. Habitat restoration, education, stewardship, community partnering, nonprofit partnering and enthusiastic volunteers…
Quartz Creek Large Wood Replenishment
The Quartz Creek Large Wood Replenishment project was identified as part of a community and multi-agency collaborative planning process working to build landscape-scale restoration projects…
Youth Opportunity Program
The Youth Opportunity Program is a collaborative project between Mid Sound Fisheries and Partner in Employment, an organization that strives to guarantee the long-term economic…
Minnow Creek Fish Passage
Persistence paid off for Cascade Fisheries after completing the third and final fish passage barrier on Minnow Creek during the summer of 2021. This allowed…
Salmon in Schools
Salmon in School is an environmental education program that provides students with a personal connection to salmon, through a unique, hands-on, STEM-based learning opportunity. Each…
Brown Bag Summer Science Series
After the cancelation of in-person school in the spring of 2020, Mid-Columbia Fisheries provided online salmon conservation information for local schools that normally have a…
Bridge to Bridge Restoration, Phase Two
The lower Walla Walla River, in general, presents degraded instream and riparian conditions. These degraded conditions impact adult and juvenile summer steelhead and spring chinook…
Bush Creek 3 Fish Barrier Correction Construction
Collaboration, partnership, teamwork, plus good old-fashioned hard work make the vision a reality. Yearly, the CBFTF accomplishes its projects with the help of outstanding partners.…
Volunteer Empowered to Restore the Sammamish River
One volunteer’s work on the Sammamish River highlights our work to empower community to restore salmon habitat. Dana Kemmerling was a participant in the Community…
Working With Quillayute Valley School District
Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition has a long-standing and close relation working with the Quillyute Valley School district at all age levels. From Elementary School fieldtrips…
Carey’s Creek Fish Passage Project
Carey’s Creek is a known summer refuge for young coho salmon, resident trout, Pacific lamprey, native salamanders, and more. Sampling by Washington Department of Fish…
Jones Creek Virtual Field Trip
For over a decade, Sound Salmon Solutions staff has led field trips focused on the water quality of Jones Creek for all 5th grade classes…
South Prairie Creek Preserve Floodplain Restoration Project
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…
Nookack River Stewards Program
The Nooksack River Stewards Program, in partnership with the Mt. Baker – Snoqualmie National Forest, educates residents and visitors about wild salmon and responsible stewardship…
Remote Stream Incubator Program
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…
North Fork Teanaway Restoration
In a collaborative project with the Yakama Nation in 2019 and 2020, we installed 9 wood trapping structures, 18 other wood structures, removed a levee,…
South Fork Toutle River
Prior to the eruption of Mount St Helens in 1980, the South Fork Toutle River supported significant runs of Chinook, coho, steelhead, and sea run…
Union River Summer Chum Project
Ever since Summer Chum were listed as threatened by the Endangered Species Act in 2000, community volunteers, student interns and HCSEG staff have monitored the…
Willow Creek Salmon and Watershed Education Center
The Willow Creek Salmon and Watershed Education Center (WCSWEC), previously known as the Willow Creek Hatchery, has raised and released salmon for over four decades.…
Hancock Springs Restoration
Hancock Springs is a unique, true spring- and ground-water fed channel. A historic dairy operation existed on the property through the 1950s where unrestricted livestock…
Kilisut Harbor Restoration Project
The swath of land between Indian and Marrowstone Islands was historically comprised of tidal channels and salt marsh. Tidal waters exchanged freely between Oak Bay…
Bull Trout Recovery
In 2019, Mid-Columbia Fisheries’ Bull Trout Task Force removed 217 recreational rock dams spanning an estimated total of nearly one kilometer to help maintain passage…
Salmon in School
Salmon in School is an environmental education program based upon raising chinook salmon in classrooms, providing teachers and schools with a unique, hands-on learning opportunity.…
Mashel River Restoration
The Mashel River project originated with a long term vision and watershed restoration plan in the early 2000's. The project is primarily based on the…
Juvenile Salmon Survey Monitoring
Restoring aquatic connections to floodplains is an important habitat restoration action for Skagit Chinook salmon. Specifically these restoration projects are designed to restore connections between…
Real Learning Real Work Restoration Engineering Program
The Real Learning Real Work Restoration Engineering Program provides teachers with year long educational programming directly targeting state curriculum requirements for STEM. In addition to…
FLOW Program
The NSEA strives to recover salmon by engaging our community in restoration, education and stewardship. In each of these focus areas the work for salmon…
Bull Trout Protection & Assessment
To protect struggling populations of bull trout in the Yakima Basin, we monitored 47 miles of streams and removed 94 recreational rock dams to maintain…
Watershed Education for Decision Makers
Watershed Education for Decision Makers is a field-based education program that aims to improve elected officials’ knowledge of natural resource management issues and solutions. The objective…
Thatcher Bay Nearshore Restoration
Thatcher Bay is located on Blakely Island in the San Juan Islands and was the site of a wood milling operation from 1879 to 1942. During…
Methow Riparian Restoration
The primary objective of the Methow Riparian Restoration project is to systematically restore riparian habitat on large, publicly owned parcels within the Methow Valley, leading…
Satsop Springs Fish Rearing
The Satsop Springs Rearing Facility operates through a cooperative agreement with the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife to raise and release rainbow trout,…
Hood Canal Steelhead Project
The Hood Canal Steelhead Project is a 16-year project (2007-2022) that aims to restore three steelhead populations in Hood Canal while evaluating the effectiveness of…
Riparian Nurseries
The Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group currently maintains two riparian nursery sites, with a third site planned for the winter of 2015. At our primary nursery…
Bull Trout Taskforce
Bull trout are a char native to the Pacific Northwest that were listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1998. There are several…
Carkeek Park Forage Fish Research
Forage fish are a critical part of the Puget Sound food web and fill a niche between plankton and salmon. Very little is known about these…
Students for Salmon
The Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association’s Students for Salmon Program (SFS) is an educational program for students and teachers in grades 3-6. It utilizes salmon as a…
Mill Creek Fish Passage
A flood control project completed in the 1940s on Mill Creek resulted in over seven miles of modified channel, including a two-mile section of concrete-lined…
Naselle River Reach Design
The Naselle River Salmon Restoration project brings together more than fifty landowners and citizens to improve salmon habitat in an important section of the Naselle…
Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail
The Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail first opened in 2000 and since that time has provided a unique opportunity to watch spawning chum salmon in their…
Dungeness River Riparian Recovery
The Dungeness River Riparian Recovery Project, in partnership with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, aims to remove invasive species from the Dungeness River and restore the…
Christmas Creek Drainage Restoration
The Christmas Creek Drainage Restoration project is a multiphase effort to restore the majority of blockages on a significant fish-bearing tributary of the Clearwater River…
In the news
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07
Jan
2020-2021 Annual Report!
Read moreWe are pleased to share with you the 2020-2021 Annual Report of Regional Fisheries Coalition. The report highlights the grit and perseverance that the 14
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23
Jan
2019-2020 Annual Report Complete!
Read moreWe are pleased to share with you the 2019-2020 Annual Report of Regional Fisheries Coalition. The report highlights the resilience that the 14 groups have shown
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07
Jan
Annual Trout Moves at Satsop Springs
Read moreVolunteers are extremely valuable assets to Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force. We have a wide range of opportunities for individual volunteers and community groups —
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23
Jan
Gyotaku in Schools!
Read moreTri-State Steelheaders did their last Gyotaku (fish printing) lesson this week! So cool to see how each Salmon in School student could take the same
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11
May
Willow Creek Salmon release
Read moreWe are still hard at work releasing our Coho salmon raised at the Willow Creek Salmon and Watershed Education Center. Our essential operations are still