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Current
Projects
Daniel's Creek
Mayflower St.
Crooked Creek
Ruby Creek
Tract 3 Road Ninilchik River Tributary
Completed
Projects
Slikok Creek
Bean
Creek
Leaf
Creek
Silver Salmon
Creek
Pepper Road Crossing
Mink, Doghouse, & Swan Creeks
Two Moose Creek
contact
us
KWF
PO Box 2937
Soldotna, AK 99669
907-260-5449
907-260-5412 fax
email
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What happens when fish can't reach
their nurseries?

photo credit US Forest Service
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After a comprehensive strategic planning effort,
our restoration focus is entirely dedicated to reconnecting baby
salmon nurseries to the ocean. While we don't have many hydroelectric
dams on the Kenai Peninsula, we do have a large number of roads
with poorly designed or maintained culverts that prevent adults
and juvenile salmon from accessing the habitat they need. There
are dozens of culverts that need our help and beginning in 2002,
we have been restoring 1 to 2 culverts each year. Other organizations
are focusing their efforts on direct bank habitat and providing
responsible access, and we believe it is important to provide the
most amount of restored habitat per dollar spent - and that opportunity
is found in restoring fish passage.
We would like to acknowledge both the Nature Conservancy of Alaska
and the AK Department of Fish and Game for helping us best define
our strategic restoration efforts.
We urge you to explore the links at the left and see past, current,
and future projects.
Steps taken to complete a fish passage project
1. Identify priority sites and secure project funding
2. Measure stream width, depth, and slope
3. Analyze stream sediment
4. Work with engineering firm to design plans that simulate
the stream width, depth, and slope
5. Get permits from multiple agencies
6. Hire construction contractors and order pipe or other
structure
7. Divert stream around existing culvert
8. Remove old culvert
9. Replace with new culvert as per permits
10. Fill ~20% of the new culvert with gravel/sand mixture
similar to the natural stream
11. Close diversion and return water to designed channel
in new culvert
12. Stabilize the road slope with rock and native vegetation
13. Monitor the results over time
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