DESCRIPTION
The North Olympic Land Trust will protect in perpetuity 97.3 acres of land along Morse Creek with this funding. The project will protect approximately one river mile of important salmon habitat, needed riparian areas, and would also include the removal of the hydroelectric operation and spillway sitting beside Morse Creek. The project is expected to benefit four stocks of salmon and bull trout across multiple life history stages. Morse Creek is home to ESA-Listed bull trout, steelhead trout, and Chinook salmon. Morse Creek is also habitat for even & odd year Pink, Summer Chum, and Coho salmon, sea run cutthroat trout & even some Sockeye salmon (they may be strays). Restoration of Morse Creek and recovery of its salmon species is very important to our local tribes. The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and other partner organizations have been advancing habitat restoration along Morse Creek for decades. The proposed acquisition builds upon previous work just two miles downstream where the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the North Olympic Salmon Coalition collaborated to protect and restore the channel-meander in an important reach of Morse Creek.
The North Olympic Land Trust will protect in perpetuity 97.3 acres of land along Morse Creek with this funding. The project will protect approximately one river mile of important salmon habitat, needed riparian areas, and would also include the removal of the hydroelectric operation and spillway sitting beside Morse Creek. The project is expected to benefit four stocks of salmon and bull trout across multiple life history stages. Morse Creek is home to ESA-Listed bull trout, steelhead trout, and Chinook salmon. Morse Creek is also habitat for even & odd year Pink, Summer Chum, and Coho salmon, sea run cutthroat trout & even some Sockeye salmon (they may be strays). Restoration of Morse Creek and recovery of its salmon species is very important to our local tribes. The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and other partner organizations have been advancing habitat restoration along Morse Creek for decades. The proposed acquisition builds upon previous work just two miles downstream where the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the North Olympic Salmon Coalition collaborated to protect and restore the channel-meander in an important reach of Morse Creek.
