Riparian Habitat Restoration- Entiat Home Inspection

Riparian Habitat Restoration- Entiat Home Inspection

Having a home on the Entiat River has it many rewards.

I am lucky to have salmon spawning grounds out in my front yard. But due to environmental stresses, over fishing and dam construction the returns have been diminishing over the years.

I have been working with the Cascadia’s Conservation District and the Yakima Nation on a project to restore some habitat on my stretch of river.

One of my neighbors and the CCD combined with my land have close to a mile of what is considered still water region that is prime habitat for the fisheries.

We will be installing 7 log jams along the river to create scour basins and cover for fish to rest and hide. This will also be a great source for food from bugs that will inhabit the debris. There will also be side channel reintroduced for fry protection.

This is all very exciting to me because watching these large sea going trout return from their vast journey is always a thrill.

Here is a short video from the CCD on another project. Here they have some children from 8th grade on a restoration project on Chumstick Creek.

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Link to blog- Riparian Habitat Restoration

Along with responsible private land management and conservation projects like this we should see a healthy return of fish stocks to the river biosphere.

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