Restoration Projects
Projects in Planning or Programs Underway 2009
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Storedahl VS Friends of The East Fork, Fish First, and Dean Swanson | Surface Mining Reclamation Daybreak Mine Permit Appeal:
Mine reclamation required by WA DNR and Ecology has not been done since early 2000's. These pits are not part of the proposed new expansion. -
Completion of West Daybreak Project 90% Planning Design on East Fork just below Daybreak Park Bridge, using grant from Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) via Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board (LCFEB).
Grant is for $ 200,000 with no match required. No reimbursement of costs to Fish First or Work Team Consultants can be paid till 30% of the design is completed. Some of the Work Team members are from the LCFRB Technical Advisory Committee and there is concern about activities that have occurred that are slowing up the rate of progress.
We had hoped to get the planning finished in July of 2009 so that we could then apply for a grant to build the project in 2010. This is the 3rd year we have tried to get the project through the grant system and we are very concerned about the activities that keep slowing our progress, which could end up preventing us from getting the 2nd grant to build the Project in 2010. Land owners along the river and Clark County (a major land owner) support the project and are tired of waiting to see it get done ---- and so are the fish! -
Fish First is installing two beaver by-pause pipe units on Manly Road Creek with the help of the Clark County Americorp Team.
This will insure a good supply of cold spring water to the fry and smolts rearing in the two ponds in the Manly Road Creek Project tributary to the East Fork L. R.
Lower East Fork Lewis River
Ground View of Power Line Bend Area Below Ridgefield Pits Showing Severely Eroded Banks and Sediment-Covered Chinook Salmon Spawning Beds
These photos were taken on 10-08-08
