SF Nooksack (Nuxw7íyem) Nesset Ph 2 Restoration
#16-2049 #16-2049
Organization WRIA 1 Watershed Management Board
Sponsor Nooksack Indian Tribe
Status Completed
Schedule Start Date: 1/19/2018 End Date: 6/3/2021
Category Category: Restoration
DESCRIPTION
The Nooksack Tribe will restore instream habitat in the South Fork Nooksack River, RM 11.1-11.4, near Acme in Whatcom County, to address South Fork (SF) Nooksack chinook limiting factors of lack of key habitat, low habitat diversity, and high temperatures. Specifically, this project will construct 5 log jams in a 0.3-mile river segment, as part of the second of three phases of restoration in the broader Nesset reach (10.3-12). Log jams are designed to: (1) increase number and depth of pools; (2) increase habitat unit diversity and quantity of complex woody cover in the low-flow channel; and (3) increase availability of temperature refuges. Other species benefitting are ESA-listed steelhead and bull trout; coho, chum, riverine sockeye, and pink salmon; and cutthroat trout. SF Nooksack early Chinook are essential for ESU recovery, but abundances are critically low. This project implements high priority actions in a high priority reach for SF Nooksack early chinook. The adjacent landownership, Whatcom Land Trust and Whatcom County Parks, through the reach presents a unique opportunity to restore habitat and habitat-forming processes in a relatively unconfined reach in the lower South Fork. The reach is also expected to be heavily used by Chinook returning to the Skookum hatchery (two miles upstream) as part of the South Fork Nooksack Chinook population-rebuilding program. Restoration will also benefit ESA-listed steelhead and bull trout; coho, chum, riverine sockeye, and pink sa
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Requested08/11/2016Nooksack Indian TribeMatch$91,330.00
Requested08/11/2016Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon State Projects$517,519.00
Allocated06/03/2021Nooksack Indian TribeMatch$81,634.22
Allocated06/03/2021Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Puget Sound Acq. & Restoration$462,578.13
Spent04/07/2021Nooksack Indian TribeMatch-$81,634.22
Spent04/07/2021Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Puget Sound Acq. & Restoration-$462,578.13
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
$608,849.00 $608,849.00 $544,212.35 $544,212.35 $0.00
OTHER FUNDING (Funding that is NOT in a grant project agreement)
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Other Funding Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
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LOCATION
Chinook-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Puget Sound, South Fork Nooksack River, Threatened
Chum-Pop (ESU):Chum-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Not Warranted
Coho-Pop (ESU):Coho-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Species of Concern
County:Whatcom
HUC12:Black Slough-South Fork Nooksack River (171100040406)
HUC12:Hutchinson Creek-South Fork Nooksack River (171100040405)
HUC8:Nooksack (17110004)
Lead Entity Area:Skagit Watershed Council
Lead Entity Area:WRIA 1
Legislative District:42
Pink-Pop (ESU):Pink-Odd Year, Not Warranted
Puget Sound Action Areas:San Juan Islands
Puget Sound Action Areas:Whidbey Island
Salmon Recovery Regions:Puget Sound
Sections:16
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Puget Sound, Nooksack River, Threatened
Township:T37NR05E
Watershed Administrative Unit:Acme
WRIA:Lower Skagit - Samish
WRIA:Nooksack
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RESTORATION METRICS
Miles of Stream and/or Shoreline Treated or Protected (C.0.b)
0.60mi0.40mi
Instream Habitat Project    
Total Miles Of Instream Habitat Treated (C.4.b)
0.30mi0.40mi
 Channel structure placement (C.4.d.1)    
Miles of Stream Treated for channel structure placement (C.4.d.3)
0.30mi0.40mi
Number of structures placed in channel (C.4.d.7)
5.005.00
Pools Created through channel structure placement (C.4.d.5)
0.004.00
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION