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Site Name: Ernaga
Stream Name: Newaukum Creek (North Fork)
Contributor: Seattle Aquarium Mobile Field Lab
Contact: Belinda Chin
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    PIE Grant five school restoration/education project

    In the fall of 1998 five schools; Muckleshoot Tribal, Sequoia Jr. High, Washington M.S., Cascade M.S., and the African American Academy, began an investigation of a 400' stretch of critical coho spawning habitat in Newaukum Creek, along with the Seattle Aquarium's Mobile Field Lab and the Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group. The project entails physical, chemical and biological(pollution tolerance index) water quality monitoring both before and after a restoration project which involves the students in tree planting. In addition to riparian improvements, a fence will be built to keep one of the participating landowners llamas out of the creek. Nose pumps will be installed which the llamas should be able to use to extract water from the creek. Two culverts on the site will also be enlarged to facilitate salmon passage. Each school has been provided with their own testing equipment to ensure the monitoring efforts sustainability after the one year PIE-grant (thanks to Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team) expires.


    B-IBI data:

    Date B-IBI Meta data Raw data
    12/11/1998NoYesNo

    Images:

  • Llama stomping grounds before any restoration (12/08/1998)
  • Calculating percent riparian canopy (Sequoia) (12/08/1998)
  • DO Titrations (Sequoia) (12/08/1998)
  • Crowd gathers 'round for pH test-results (Sequoia) (12/08/1998)
  • If it wiggles pick it up (Sequoia) (12/08/1998)
  • Several genera of stonefly nymphs (12/08/1998)
  • Phatty crane fly larvae (12/08/1998)
  • Surber sampling at the upstream riffle (12/08/1998)
  • Taking the stream's temperature (12/16/98)
  • Amongst the knot-weed and blackberry (Muckleshoot) (12/16/98)
  • DO was 10.5 mg/l (Muckleshoot) (12/16/98)
  • Avoiding the coho redds for a surber sampler (Muckleshoot) (12/16/98)
  • Troublesome Landuses: lowland farms & highland clearcuts (1/27/99)
  • Big slippery cobble takes its toll (African American Academy) (1/27/98)
  • Peering peers (African American Academy) (1/27/99)
  • Pteronarcys (1/27/99)
  • Homegirls posin' (African American Academy) (1/27/99)
  • Riparain restoration (Washington M.S.) (3/9/99)
  • Pounding in Red Osier Dogwood stakes (Wash.) (3/9/99)
  • More red osier (3/9/99)
  • This gate keeps allows the llamas to drink but keeps them out of the stream (4/23/99)
  • Coho parr caught in the shade of the llama gate (A.A.A.) (4/23/99)
  • Visiting some step-weirs upstream (African American Academy) (4/23/99)
  • We found more coho parr in the step weirs (A.A.A) (4/23/99)
  • A mixture of 250 conifers and native shrubs were planted (4/23/99)
  • New plants will succeed this knot-weed patch (4/23/99)
  • We took a kick screen upstream below the step weirs (Cascade) (5/4/99)
  • Bivouacing back from a fun day's monitoring (Cascade) (5/4/99)
  • Our final group of kids pose after a job supremely well done (Cascade M.S.) (5/4/99)
  • This gate allows the llamas to drink but keeps them out of the stream (4/23/99)
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