Funded habitat recovery projects

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Sadie/Susie Barrier Removals (Funded 2005)
Current Status: Active

DNR’s project will benefit the low-gradient headwater wetlands and feeder tributaries to both Sadie Creek (Tier 2, East Twin River System) and Susie Creek (Tier 1, Lyre River System). The area is laced with productive tributaries and wetlands that are characterized by clean, cold ground-water feeding low-gradient, gravel-bedded channels. The area supports high densities of salmonids, especially coho, also cutthroat trout and steelhead. Data from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe show these areas produce a high percentage of the coho in both the East Twin and Lyre Rivers. The project will eliminate five culverts that block or partially block salmonid streams, thus reestablishing natural habitat processes including stream hydrology, transport of LWD, sediment and nutrients. Project specifics:
• Site 1 and 4: bridges replace existing pipes and LWD placement at site 1;
• Site 2, 3, and 5: WDFW stream-simulation type design replacement pipes and LWD placement at site 3.
The project supports SRFB efforts to restore channel and riparian habitats in Sadie Creek and the E. Twin River, as well as long term monitoring under the Intensively Monitored Watershed (IWM) program.
Area residents strongly support salmon restoration, have spent thousands of their own dollars; hundreds of hours of volunteer time on restoration and monitoring activities. They have conservation easements on 4 downstream parcels on the E. Twin River, representing more than half of the private riparian land on this system.