Elk Creek, A Tier 1 stream, Shoreline of the State, provides five miles of contiguous low gradient freshwater high quality salmonid habitat. At RM 1.3 it begins a meandor through a small valley with steep slopes and multiple dendritic drainages. The valley floor is perennially saturated with a multitude of wetlands and side wall spring fed channels that are utilized extensively by wild juvenile Coho and steelhead. Habitat conditions are very good with large woody debris forming deep pools alternating with shallow gravel used extensively by wild Coho, steelhead and cutthroat trout for spawning and rearing. Elk Creek Acquisition targets 220 ..... Updated 8/28/2008 North Pacific Coast (LE)

The Forest Service is proposing to decommission 4 miles of Forest Service Road (FSR) 2931-100 in Goodman Creek, a Sol Duc River tributary. The project was identified as 1 of 8 top unranked restoration needs in a stakeholder assessment of the Quillayute basin in 2006 (NPCLE, Appendix B). Decommisioning involves removing all culverts and fills, removing unstable sidecast, outsloping or providing sufficient drainage from the former road bed, erosion control of disturbed soils, and controlling noxious weed infestation. The project goal is to restore inputs of sediment and debris into Goodman Creek to more natural levels and protect fish habita..... Updated 6/29/2008 North Pacific Coast (LE) Show on map

The partners seek to permanently protect, by conservation easements, productive sockeye, coho, steelhead and cutthroat habitat on about 29 undeveloped acres on the north shore of Lake Pleasant, which include the inlet of Lake Creek. All the sockeye in the Quillayute system spawn in Lake Pleasant, preferring the north end. They are a unique stock, an Evolutionarily Significant Unit whose status appears stable, with observed escapement of up to 3,500 fish in 2000. The project area includes 1,300 feet of Lake Creek, tributaries to the creek and the lake and approximately 10 acres of forested- wetland. This portion of Lake Creek, with its ..... Updated 8/27/2008 North Pacific Coast (LE) Show on map

The proposed Lower Hoh Log Jam Project will be located on the southern edge of the Hoh River floodplain (R.M. 1.3), within the northern boundary of the Hoh Indian Reservation and will provide channel stability, habitat diversity, side channel habitat protection and sediment control in an area of historically dynamic channel migration. From 1994 to 2003, the main stem Hoh occupied this southern margin. Extensive bank erosion (approx. 28 acres) and flooding occurred during winter storm events. Bank armoring along the river's northern edge accelerated bank erosion to the south, necessitating the installation of three rock vanes along the sou..... Updated 7/2/2008 North Pacific Coast (LE) Show on map

The Pole Creek project is a multi-phased project that encompasses a drainage of 12,700 feet of historic salmonid habitat. The first phase of this project will be addressed by the landowner, the Hoh River Trust, and will involve the removal of three blocking culverts and road decommissioning. This application will address the second phase which will entail removing a perched culvert that is badly deteriorated and replacing it with 40’ superstructure. The culvert is 6’ X 4’ X 40’ pipe arch (cmpa) that is rusted through the bottom and has an outlet drop and steep, narrow drop (chute) into the inlet. There is approximately 2 miles of suitable..... Updated 7/2/2008 North Pacific Coast (LE) Show on map

Hyas Creek is one of only two tributaries of South Fork of Calawah (Quillayute Basin) with anadromous fish spawning/rearing habitat, mostly for coho and steelhead. In the 1998 USFS/Quileute Watershed Analysis (WSA) for the Sitkum SF Calawah and Limiting Factors Analysis of 2000 which relied on it, authors noted lack of Large Woody Debris (LWF), from the 1951 Forks Fire and subsequent salvage. Without LWD the creek energy is too high to develop channel diversity and retain spawning gravel. Currently the channel lacks adequate spawning gravel and refugia. Both WSA and LFA recommend LWD for Hyas Creek and ranked habitats as poor for the above r..... Updated 7/2/2008 North Pacific Coast (LE) Show on map

Over the past 5 decades, salmonid spawning habitat has been degraded & reduced as a result of sediment deposition in spawning gravel in tributaries & the lakeshore of Lake Ozette due to forest practices and roads. This sediment deposition has been identified as a major limiting factor for the recovery of the ESA listed Lake Ozette Sockeye Evolutionary Significant Unit. The Recovery Team has determined that an efficient way to minimize road-derived sediment loads is to selectively place cross-drain pipes as a means of rerouting sediment to the forest floor, prioritized to maximize the reduction of sediment delivery to the channel netw..... Updated 8/28/2008 North Pacific Coast (LE)

The Shelley Side Channel is an active and productive 0.6 mile side channel along the Hoh River mainstem, a Tier 1 watershed. In 2006, a large jam formed 1/4 mile upstream on the right bank which is deflecting flow to the side channel along the left bank. The increased flow is destabilizing the banks and incising the bottom of the side channel, degrading important and active habitat for spawning, rearing and overwintering uses for priority wild stock species of anadromous Chinook, Coho and Steelhead. After the flood event of December 2007, it was determined by the NPCLE Technical Group in order to reduce flows and velociti..... Updated 8/13/2008 North Pacific Coast (LE) Show on map

The purpose is to replace a fish blokage (culvert) with a bridge. This will open 3.77 miles of spawning and rearing habiiat for coho, steelhead, Chinook, chum, and sea-run cutthroat. This is the last human made barrier in Tassel Creek, a tributary to the Sol Duc River. This project will complete a sequence begun by Clallam County and Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition in 1997, following recommendation of Sol Duc Watershed Analysis prescriptions and WDFW off-channel survey. This project also includes habitat enhancement with large woody debris (logs and root wads). Presently, the blocked area has prime fish habitat with good cobble and gravel, av..... Updated 8/28/2008 North Pacific Coast (LE)