Improving salmon habitat is the primary way SFEG seeks to enhance salmon resources. Habitat loss and environmental degradation continue to threaten the clean, healthy, and cool water salmon need to survive. Our projects are designed to improve and protect local watersheds by offering assistance to local landowners. In addition to salmon, our projects also benefit the other 80% of wildlife species that depend on healthy watersheds such as frogs, song birds and deer.

Recent Restoration Projects:

East Fork Nookachamps Creek Deepwater Slough Thunder Creek NP Creek Day Creek Iron Mountain Ranch Finney Creek McElroy Slough

Upcoming Projects:

Ennis Creek

 

We work with willing landowners to do the following types of restoration projects:

Riparian Projects 
     Revegetation 
     Fencing

Improving Fish Passage 
     Culvert Replacement
     Building Bridges 
     Building Weirs 

In-Stream Projects

     Logs in Creeks

     Channel Enhancement 

     Stream Bank Stabilization 

Nutrient Enhancement


Landowner Assistance
      Willing property owners make salmon enhancement possible. Without cooperative landowners to lead the way there would be no opportunities for salmon restoration activities in our watersheds. SFEG works with local landowners who are interested in protecting salmon resources to implement restoration projects on their property in a non-regulatory fashion. Our assistance is often free and landowner participation is completely voluntary. If you have salmon habitat on your property that you want to restore or protect please contact us.

Fish Facts The Skagit River holds the largest run of chinook (kings) & bull trout (aka dolly varden) in the Puget Sound watershed.