DESCRIPTION
This planning project will continue forward momentum to provide the opportunity to restore multiple habitat processes in the Lower Big Quilcene River to benefit Hood Canal summer chum and other salmonid species. High velocities during winter months will be attenuated through reconnection with an active floodplain, increased stream length and decreased channel gradient.
The Moon Valley Reach represents a severely degraded and disconnected reach along the main stem of the Big Quilcene River. The main channel within this reach has been artificially constrained for close to a century, which has resulted in high velocity flows, a steep gradient and stream bed sediments dominated by coarse cobble and boulder. Future restoration goals are to re-connect the river to at least 100 acres of its historical floodplain, restore the channel migration zone, increase river length and decrease gradient in order to address a number of key limiting factors for salmon species in the Big Quilcene river. These salmon species include Hood Canal Summer Chum, as well as Steelhead, Coho, Pink, Fall Chinook, and Fall Chum. This proposal seeks to obtain funding to produce a final design for restoration work in Moon Valley.
Jefferson County- Big.Little Quilcene
