Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association
Featured Project: ClimeTime Teacher Training & Students for Salmon
RFEG: Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association
In 2022-23 NSEA's ClimeTime professional development workshops and Students for Salmon program provided training for 49 teachers, helped students improve 7.88 acres of riparian habitat, led 81 classroom field trips, engaged 280 parent volunteers, supported career pathways for eight AmeriCorps members, created 1,686 Student Scientists, and trained 31 interns.
Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group
Featured Project: Ovenell Slough at Cedar Grove Habitat Improvement
RFEG: Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group
Skagit Fisheries worked with Skagit County to correct a fish passage blockage on Ovenell Slough and restore habitat for Chinook salmon, while also provide ADA via a pedestrian bridge for the community to reach public lands along the Skagit River.
North Olympic Salmon Coalition
Featured Project: Caldero Side Channel Community Planting Project
RFEG: North Olympic Salmon Coalition
In partnership with the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, over 250 community volunteers planted over 6,700 native trees and shrubs along a recently-restored Dungeness River floodplain habitat.
Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition
Featured Project: Salmon Camp
RFEG: Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition
In partnership with the the Quillayute Valley School District, 6th and 7th graders participated in six weeks of writing, reading, and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, based on salmon natural history and societal impacts. PCSC planned several field trips along with many great activities to get kids outside.
Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group
Featured Project: Salmon in the Schools
RFEG: Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group
In 2022-23, Washington RFEGs and other nonprofit partners worked together to bring Salmon in the Schools programming to high-poverty elementary schools.
Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force
Featured Project: Geissler Creek Fish Passage Restoration
RFEG: Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force
In partnership with the Recreation and Conservation Office, the Salmon Recovery Funding Board, and Grays Harbor County, CBFTF replaced a 33% passable barrier with a 44' long bridge, benefitting five species of salmonids.
Willapa Bay Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group
Featured Project: Rue Creek Smolt Study
RFEG: Willapa Bay
The performance of wild- and hatchery-origin remote site incubator (RSI) hatched fry was evaluated, to establish fry survival rates and population composition.
Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group
Featured Project: Baird Creek Liberation
RFEG: Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group
This project will notch a historic splash dam to re-establish fish passage and release trapped spawning gravel into the lower three miles of Baird Creek (a tributary of the Coweeman River).
South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group
Featured Project: Deschutes River Restoration
RFEG: South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group
Instream log jams, a high water floodplain channel and nine acres of riparian reforestation were installed along a one-mile stretch of the Deschutes River.
Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group
Featured Project: Salmon Friendly Yards
RFEG: Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group
We worked with community members to install 25 rain gardens, cisterns, and other projects in the private yards of people living near two important salmon streams.
Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group
Featured Project: The Little Naches Levee Reach
RFEG: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group
This project improved 1.24 miles of habitat by removing two levees, rebuilding the riverbed, adding wood, and blocking vehicle access.
Sound Salmon Solutions
Featured Project: Willow Creek Salmon & Watershed Education Center Coho Rearing and Release
RFEG: Sound Salmon Solutions
Over 40,000 Coho salmon were released into eight different local streams by 50 returning volunteers, dedicating more than 175 hours to salmon restoration.
Cascade Fisheries
Featured Project: Big Meadow Creek Fish Passage and Wood Restoration
RFEG: Cascade Fisheries
Cascade Fisheries partnered with the US Forest Service to correct one fish passage barrier and place 40 unanchored trees in Big Meadow Creek, which is home to ESA-listed spring chinook, steelhead, and bulltrout.
Tri State Steelheaders
Featured Project: Mill Creek Passage – Division to Roosevelt
RFEG: Tri State Steelheaders
Passage improvements were constructed on 1,200 feet of the concrete-lined flood control channel.