The final step of the project at this site was to vegetate the exposed soils. This was done with feltleaf willow clippings, some native transplants, and a seed combination of annual and perennial grasses. In the autumn of 2005 we will also plant a few thousand more willow clippings and distribute more local native seeds, such as fireweed, cow parsnip and rose.
In August, 174 live chinook salmon and 41 carcasses were sighted above the previous waterfall barrier, for a total of 215 chinook salmon! This is far more chinook salmon than expected in the first year of restored fish passage and we are very excited by the project’s success!
Funding for this project was provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Coastal American Foundation, the Five Star Restoration Partnership, and N.C. Machinery.
