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Bring Back the Fish panel
Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 25, 2017
Caption: Bring Back the Fish panel
Additional Description: Several species offish live in the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River, but only Chinook salmon and steelhead migrate to and from the Pacific Ocean to complete their life cycle.
These fish were once plentiful in the Pacific Northwest, but experience steady declines during the 20th century. They are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Tribal, federal, state, private, and non-governmental organizations are working together to improve Chinook salmon and steelhead habitat in the Yankee Fork.
In 9012, this group completed the half-mile-long side channel project before you.
The ponds and dredge piles once found here were transformed into a stream channel, floodplain, and wetlands that provide crucial habitat for Chinook salmon and steeled. Within six months, steelhead were spawning here.

Submitted: November 13, 2017, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p403746
File Size: 3.415 Megabytes

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