Watershed Acreage- 8,807 acres

Anadromous Salmonid Use- Nearshore: Chinook, bull trout, coho, chum, cutthroat, and steelhead
Freshwater: coho, chum, steelhead, and cutthroat

Total Stream Miles- 8.5 miles
Anadromous Stream Miles- 8.5 miles

Ownership Pattern:
Private rural development is scattered throughout the system. A dominate landowner in the watershed is Green Diamond Resource Company. Private shellfish growers own the tidelands.

Watershed Description:
Deer Creek has many functioning natural processes due to limited development and silviculture along the stream. There are spawning gravels throughout the creek, but due to natural geology, hardpan is present in some reaches. Substrate embeddedness in some areas limits spawning success for all species present in the watershed.

Spring Creek enters Deer Creek approximately 50 meters from the estuary, contributing 1.75 miles of habitat for chum, coho, and cutthroat. Spring creek has a wetland headwaters and much of the watershed is rural with cooperative landowners who have participated in numerous restoration projects. These projects include the construction of an off-channel pond, a culvert replacement, a spawning viewing platform for Pioneer School students and revegetation of the lower section in forestland. There is good gravel throughout and several areas of significant key pieces of LWD, particularly at RM 0.5. Off-channel rearing opportunities exist in the wetlands at the headwaters. The upper section in particular is rural and intact.

Description from the Salmon Habitat Protection and Restoration Plan for Water Resource Inventory Area 14, Kennedy-Goldsborough. For more information including salmonid stock status see the previously stated document or the Salmonid Habitat Limiting Factors Water Resource Inventory Area 14, Kennedy-Goldsborough Basin. For fish use see the map image located in pictures. For a list of priority projects and programs in this watershed see the document titled Deer Creek -Priority Habitat Projects and Programs.