Category: Funded Projects

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…

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…

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…

This project restored tidal marsh and swamp habitat by removing fill from an old road grade to restore tidal connectivity, restoring 0.21 acres of tidal marsh, and restoring tidal swamp habitat on 3.53 acres by removing invasive species, placing nurse logs, seeding/planting native species, and monitoring survival of plants to inform additional work in high…

The Rose Point estuary restoration project will recreate a historic embayment estuary for juvenile salmon along the West Sound in north Kitsap County, Washington. The project will remove 770 feet of creosote bulkhead, restore tidal connectivity to a freshwater marsh, and reconnect a stream to the estuary. Sponsor: Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group

Eelgrass meadows are both highly productive and critical habitats that provide immense ecosystem benefits. However, they are experiencing staggering declines worldwide due to compounded global and local stressors. The Catalina Island Eelgrass Restoration Project restored integral fish habitat connectivity on Catalina Island by transplanting 15,000 ft2 of Zostera marina (common eelgrass) to a cove that…

This project reconnected two acres of privately owned wetland habitat to the Blind Slough Sitka spruce swamp. Hydrology between the two properties will be restored by removing a road that Hampton Lumber has identified for decommissioning. The removal of road fill expanded available estuarine habitat in the Lower Columbia River to support rearing and foraging…

This project completed a regional scale assessment of fish habitat along the nearshore of greater Puget Sound. Project sponsors analyzed previously collected towed underwater imagery from Washington Department of Natural Resources’ eelgrass monitoring program to investigate regional patterns in abundance and depth distribution of marine vegetation types that are recognized indicators of habitat condition. Sponsor:…

The project increased the ecosystem benefits provided by native Olympia oysters at Coquille Point in Yaquina Bay, Oregon. Scientists from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife designed and fabricated innovative “Olympia oyster havens” constructed from cement and oyster shell, populate them with oyster spat, and evaluate their effectiveness as refuges from predatory crab. Sponsor:…