Month: June 2022
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PMEP Funded Projects 2022
PMEP is pleased to announce the award of over $230,000 to the following five fish habitat restoration projects for 2022. Sequalitchew Creek Estuary Restoration Design Alternatives Polnell Point Armor Removal and Restoration Aiston Preserve Nearshore Restoration Eelgrass restoration in Washington & Oregon Zangle Cove Restoration These projects represent important conservation priorities of PMEP, restoring eelgrass,…
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Sequalitchew Creek Estuary Restoration Design Alternatives, WA (2022)
This work addressed the restoration of full fish passage through the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, tidal hydrology and sediment inputs to the shoreline, floodplain connection and off-channel habitat, juvenile rearing, osmoregulation, and foraging habitats, and submerged aquatic vegetation and habitats to support forage fish and natural tidal marsh habitats. Additionally, biological and hydrological…
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Aiston Preserve Nearshore Restoration, WA (2022)
This project revegetated upland marine riparian areas, reconnecting the adjacent upland and nearshore habitats. These efforts will provide shade, structure, and stability to the shoreline to benefit a variety of PMEP focal species and USFWS-listed species. Other specific actions included enhancing and restoring nearshore processes, restoring the formerly armored shoreline, and creating and enhancing pocket…
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Zangle Cove Restoration, WA (2022)
This project removed residential marine waterfront armor on a small embayment located on a private residential waterfront property situated along Dana Passage in South Puget Sound, restoring coastal processes and improving intertidal estuarine habitat, and provides a demonstration of residential armor removal in South Puget Sound and helps reverse the trend of armoring while showing…