Fisherman on tidal Willapa River - Weyerhauser mill background, photo by Larry Bale

Our Projects

For over 25 years, the WBRFEG has worked to improve the habitat and population of salmon in Pacific County.  Typical habitat projects involve removal of fish passage barriers such as undersized and failing culverts, habitat improvement by placement of large woody debris and spawning gravel, and riparian zone restoration through the planting of carefully selected streamside trees, brush and other vegetation.  On many of our projects, we utilize remote site incubators (RSI's) to quickly rebuild a depressed salmon population in a given area utilizing fish stocks from local hatcheries and broadstock methods.  Below is a small listing of some of the recent projects we have worked on.

Habitat Projects

• ​Naselle River: Bank stabilization and placement of large woody debris 
• Salmon Creek: Bank stabilization, placement of LWD
  
• Elk Creek: LWD placement & spawning gravel, stream restoration. 

Fish barriers

• Green Creek: Removal of blocking culvert, stream restoration with LWD
• ​Oxbow Creek: Removal of blocking culvert and replacement with box bridge, placement of LWD and spawning gravel​​

Salmon RSI's

• North River:  Developed side stream channel with spawning gravel.  Rearing of coho and steelhead
• Stringer Creek: RSI location for population support of Coho
• Oxbow Creek:  RSI location for rebuilding of depressed coho run after habitat work
• Elk Creek: RSI location for rebuilding of Willapa Bay Chum

OUR GOAL

Salmon are disappearing. We're changing that.
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