DESCRIPTION
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation funding provided for a salmon habitat restoration project to benefit threatened Stillaguamish River salmon stocks, including the depressed South Fork Stillaguamish River Fall Chinook. Snohomish County Public Works, in collaboration with the Pacific Denkmann Company, Washington State Fish and Wildlife, and the Stillaguamish Tribe, installed 3 large woody debris jams in Pilchuck Creek. The jams consist of 11 large cedar logs with root wads placed directly in the channel and 21 small fir boles used as anchors either as pilings or buried. The installation of the wood increased the large woody debris frequency in this reach by 66% to 74 pieces per mile of wood greater than 1' (30 cm) in diameter and over 25„ (7.5m) long. The 3 logjams structures increased the reach jam frequency to 10 jams per mile. This effort more than doubles the creek average measured in the 2011 habitat inventory.
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation funding provided for a salmon habitat restoration project to benefit threatened Stillaguamish River salmon stocks, including the depressed South Fork Stillaguamish River Fall Chinook. Snohomish County Public Works, in collaboration with the Pacific Denkmann Company, Washington State Fish and Wildlife, and the Stillaguamish Tribe, installed 3 large woody debris jams in Pilchuck Creek. The jams consist of 11 large cedar logs with root wads placed directly in the channel and 21 small fir boles used as anchors either as pilings or buried. The installation of the wood increased the large woody debris frequency in this reach by 66% to 74 pieces per mile of wood greater than 1' (30 cm) in diameter and over 25' (7.5m) long. The 3 logjams structures increased the reach jam frequency to 10 jams per mile. This effort more than doubles the creek average measured in the 2011 habitat inventory.
