Some good news for all of us. Restoration is one wing of the environmental movement (activism is the other). This is good restoration work. From the Trout Unlimited web site.
On the Olympic Peninsula, Owl Creek, a tributary of the iconic coastal Hoh River, lost its natural logjams after immense flooding over two decades ago.
This past year, Trout Unlimited and the Hoh Tribe brought them back. Twenty-two engineered logjams, over a mile of stream, were built by helicopter to restore stream habitat and function. These logjams slow the water, capture sediment, sort spawning gravel and carve out the pools young salmon and steelhead need to thrive.
Almost immediately, Hoh Tribe and TU staff found Chinook and coho salmon taking advantage of the new habitat soon after the first autumn rains
“Kʷokʷolísdo Ḳ̓á yika xa’bil-ts” means “restoring Owl Creek” in Quileute, a Chimakuan language traditionally spoken in coastal indigenous communities. The translation was provided by the Hoh Tribe. The Hoh watershed—including Owl Creek—is part of the Hoh Tribe’s Treaty-reserved Usual and Accustomed area. The Tribe has been fishing for salmon and steelhead, and stewarding these lands, since time immemorial.
For the video only:
https://youtu.be/lwvEiLY_Gns?is=_WBCcnjF1MliUwUp
Here’s the blog on from Trout Unlimited.
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