DESCRIPTION
The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe is proposing this restoration project to construct 14 engineered logjams (ELJ's) in three remote Upper Dungeness River reaches within the Olympic National Forest: the Dungeness River from river mile (RM) 14.5 to 14.7 and the Gray Wolf River from RM 0.3 to 0.9 and RM 1.7 to 2.1. Salmon and char habitat in these river reaches was severely degraded by historical large wood removal projects and has not recovered. Wood removal has ceased, but these reaches remain extremely lacking in wood-formed large deep pools and stable spawning habitat. The ELJ's will restore stable, complex spawning and rearing habitat by scouring pools, stabilizing spawning riffles, retaining salmon carcasses, providing cover, and engendering the formation of side channels and floodplain connectivity. The primary fish species to benefit from the project include Puget Sound Chinook, Puget Sound steelhead, bull trout, Upper Dungeness pinks, and coho.
Build approximately 50 engineered and design/build logjams (ELJ's and DBLJ's) in the Dungeness River from river mile (RM) 2.7 to 18.8 and in the Gray Wolf River from RM 0.0 to 2.0. Work will be accomplished in a series of design and construction phases occurring from 2010 to 2019.
