Projects
RFEG Overview
The coverage area for the Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition (PCSC) includes the western portion of the Olympic Peninsula north of the Chehalis River drainage and south of Cape Flattery. This region covers parts of three counties: Clallam, Jefferson and Grays Harbor. There are several significant rivers in this region including the Sol Duc, Clalwah, Dickey and Bogachiel - Quillayute River complex, the Hoh River, the Queets River and the Quinault River. These rivers are glacial fed and have short, but steep drops to the ocean. High levels of precipitaion characterize the region and streams with cold water, high average flows, and relatively long duration peak flows, including a second peak later in the year from snow melt.
Much of this area is within the Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest, the state Experimental Forest or one of several Native American reservations. The majority of the land base in the river drainage is in timber production. The remaing land base is primarily a mixture of national park and Native American reservation.
One of the primary challenges for PCSC is obtaining volunteers in vary large area with a very low population density. The challenges for the volunteers are to blend the needs of salmon with the area's economic dependence on logging and fishing and because so much of the region is in public lands their efforts must be coordinated with various state, federal, and tribal land managers.
However, because of this unique circumstance several beneficail partnerships have formed. To date, the Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition has formed partnerships with the Quillayute trive, the Hoh trive, the Makah tribe, Quinault tribe, USDA Forest Service, National Park Service, WDF&W, DNR,Forks School system, Rayonier, Green Crow, Blodell, the City of Forks and numerous small private landowners.
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River Systems inlcude: Quillayute, Sol Duc, Bogachiel, Calawah, Dickey River, Queets River, Quinalt River..
Quillayute River System
Bear Creek Bank-Stabilization Project Is a project to reduce sediment from banks and provide spawning gravel for adult coho and coverage for juveniles Bogachiel Springs Spawning Habitat Project Creating several habitat ponds along a length of stream Prairie Falls Creek A culvert was installed and an old stream bed restored Labrador Creek The Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition partnering with SSHEAR and Green Crow proposes to stabilize a beaver dam in a forested wetland. Wisen Creek The project proposal is to install a plank weir or sand bags where the beaver dam had been to increase the water level in the pond. Borde Pond The intent of the project is to augment the existing Coho run in Mill creek. Borde pond is an ongoing supplementation project being done in partnership with a private landowner (Phil and Bev Borde) and WDFW. Calawah North Fork The N.F. project seeks to place woody debris in a specific section of river that have been monitored for a number of years and are known to have a significant number of spawning salmon. Conrad Creek The culvert was perched above the stream at its outlet, creating a complete fish blockage during some flows and a partial blockage during most flows. Bockman Creek Pseudo Springs The project proposal is to install a rough-cut cedar plank weir where the road fill had been to maintain the water level in the pond Thomas Springs Is one of the sites WDF&W created several years ago that we continue to monitor and repair as necessary. Warner Creek Warner Creek is a tributary to Mill Creek. We would like to move the outlet over and construct a fish way so juveniles could utilize the upper reaches of Warner CreekHoh River Area
Pins Creek Project The purpose of the Pins Creek engineering projects is to find the best location and length of bridge to span Pins Creek. Fossil Creek PCSC would like to return it to its original size using volunteers to place structures in the stream below the pond where the previous beaver dam had been. Hoh Hum Ranch Fences were installed and trees were planted to hold soil and provide shade. Hoh River Log Jam The intent of the Hoh log jam is to stabilize a failing section of bank to reduce sediment input while providing valuable habitat for salmon in the form of slow water refuge and coverOther Projects
Clallam Bay P.C.S.C secured a Hydraulic Permit and hired a contractor who cleared a channel through the gravel bar, with an excavator, allowing the juvenile Steelhead to escape to the safety of the ocean environment. Hammerquist Creek Removed an undersized and failing bridge from Hammerquist creek a tributary to the Pysht River.