The Quinault Nation will use this grant to remove two culverts that prevent fish migration and help create a wetland flowing out of a historical and culturally significant prairie system. This is the final project in restoring the natural flow of the prairie system. The first culvert, which is buried, will be replaced with a new culvert while the second culvert will be replaced with a 30-foot bridge. Currently, water backs up until it flows over the road. Replacing the culvert with a bridge also will involve installing fish passage structures in the stream to maintain the current water levels and existing rearing habitat above the road. The ..... Updated 8/25/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map

After observing flows, temperatures and dissolved oxygen (DO) level for a season in the groundwater fed spawning channel for sockeye salmon on Ziegler Creek, we have come to the conclusion that a slight change in approach is necessary. Initially it was thought that upwelling groundwater would provide adequate incubation conditions in redds. The channel was designed to maximize spawning but was found to not provide adequate DO levels. We believe the channel we constructed last summer, which is 35 meters long and 10 meters wide, would have higher survival rates if we constricted the existing groundwater to create flow. Due to the low oxy..... Updated 8/25/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map

The Quinault Nation will use this grant to survey the Prairie Creek sub-watershed for Japanese knotweed and then eradicate the knotweed with herbicide treatments for 3 years. Crews will inspect and treat the roads and uplands in the watershed to prevent reinfestation of the stream. The invasive plant has degraded the stream functions. High water spreads the seed throughout the lower Quinault system. The eradication of Japanese knotweed will give native plants a chance to recolonize riparian areas and restore forests and the ecological functions they provide, and prevent additional infestations. Steelhead, Chinook and coho are affected. The Q..... Updated 8/25/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map

The Quinault Nation will use this grant to build four engineered logjams and augment one natural logjam in the side channel of Alder Creek, a critical habitat for sockeye salmon and one of only five remaining locations where sockeye spawn in the upper Quinault River system. Logjams are put into rivers to slow them down and create places for salmon to spawn, rest, hide from predators and search for food. The project is a partnership with the Olympic National Forest and has support from private landowners adjacent to the area. The tribe will contribute $60,000 from a federal grant. Updated 8/25/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map

This is a fish barrier correction on a small forest landowner road used to access private forest lands. The barrier is located on an unamed stream WRIA 21.0774 a tributary to the Copalis River. Correction of this barrier will open 11 miles of fish habitat. The species present are coho, native and anadomous cutthroat trout, plus steelhead juveniles, Olympic Mudminnows, and sculpins. The current site has three 18 foot long undersized culverts, the largest is four foot in diameter and the others are 16 inches in diameter. The bank full width of the stream is estimated at 10 foot. Stream width is hard to determine in wetland areas. The re..... Updated 8/24/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map

The proposed project is to remove the instream and upslope hatchery facility on Shale Creek (WRIA# 21.0041). The facility was constructed in 1987 by WDFW in cooperation with the Quinault Nation for the purpose of enhancing the Queets/Clearwater coho run. The facility is no longer being used since a hatchery was constructed on the Salmon River, a tributary to the Queets River. The facility is unmanned and the instream water control structure spanning Shale Creek collects large amounts of woody debris causing the associated concrete apron to down cut. The combination of occlusion and down cutting at the apron is resulting in a fish barrier..... Updated 8/24/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map

Lake Quinault is an ultra-oligotrophic sockeye nursery lake located on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. Since 1950, sockeye runsizes, escapements, and harvests have declined significantly. In essence, the lake acts as a "bottleneck" to smolt sockeye production. The fertilization of Lake Quinault project proposes to increase smolt sockeye production and runsizes by enhancing primary and secondary productivity through the addition of low-level concentrations of liquid fertilizer containing N and P over a 5-year period. QFID will monitor the effects of fertilization by examining primary and secondary productivity and correlating c..... Updated 8/24/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map

This project would replace a fish barrier culvert on a WRIA # 21-0143 tributary to the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. The culvert is located on the tributary stream 110 feet above the Salmon River at RM 13.4. Removal and replacement of this culvert with an adequately sized culvert pipe arch or open bottomed arch will provide unimpeded access to 0.8 miles of spawning and rearing habitat for coho, steelhead and cutthroat. This road provides access to Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) lands and Olympic National Forest lands. This culvert was identified in a USFS culvert inventory and has a high priority for replacement. Updated 8/24/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map

This assessment will provide Quinault River management agencies and landowners with information about the physical processes, human impacts to natural processes, and a prioritized project list for protection and restoration of salmon spawning and rearing habitats. The Quinault River reach between its Lake Quinault inlet upstream to the confluence of Graves Creek will be studied to determine the primary physical processes that govern the system and which processes have been influenced by human activities. Updated 8/24/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map

The Tiemeyer Off-Channel pond project will improve the habitat and access for salmonid juveniles coho, steelhead, and cutthroat for overwintering and summer rearing. The site is a 3,421 feet long wetland area off-channel habitat. The project is located in Jefferson County, near the town of Clearwater. The site is in section 18, T24N R12W, WRIA 21.0024, 70 miles north of Hoquiam, WA, 3.5 miles from the confluence of the Clearwater River, where it meets the Queets River five (5) miles from the Pacific Ocean. The limiting factors include low dissolved oxygen levels, temperature, cover, and limited access to upper wetlands. The scope of wo..... Updated 8/24/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map

The Alder Creek Side Channel Pilot Project is the first engineered logjam construction project in the Quinault River Watershed and is intended to commence salmon habitat restoration and floodplain reforestation in the Upper Quinault River. The project is supported by the Salmon Habitat Restoration Plan - Upper Quinault River (Quinault Indian Nation 2008) and the Geomorphic Investigation of the Quinault River, Washington (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation 2005). The project area is located approximately 9.0 river kilometers upstream of Lake Quinault in the Upper Quinault River in Jefferson County, Washington (TRS: 24N 9W S36). Five engineered log..... Updated 8/24/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map

Quinault Indian Nation proposes to conduct a leaf-off LiDAR flight for the Quinault Reservation (~203,000 acres) and a leaf-off LiDAR and orthophotography flight for the Upper Quinault River Valley (~12,000 acres). The LiDAR and orthophotography data collected during the project shall be stored on a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device for utilization by QIN technical staff and its designated consultants for specific applications pertaining to natural resource management on the Quinault Reservation and the Upper Quinault River Restoration program. To best manage its natural resources, it is necessary for the Nation to have accurately mappe..... Updated 8/24/2010 Quinault Indian Nation (LE) Show on map