South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group

Title: Kennedy Creek Natural Area Preserve Opening Location: Directions to follow Description: Come celebrate the opening of the new Kennedy Creek Natural Area Preserve Interpretive Site! Start Time: 15:00 Date: 2008-09-30 End Time: 17:00 FREE EVENT

Published September 15, 2008 JOHN DODGE A bid by Glacier Northwest to expand its sand and gravel mine in this historic village has reopened a decades-long land-use battle involving the Sequalitchew Creek Canyon, a conflict supposedly settled 15 years ago. Glacier, one of the largest sand and gravel mining operations in the nation, wants to [...]

Since April 2008 I have taken the personal opportunity to volunteer at People for Puget Sound’s ‘Pier Peer’ events. These events take place primarily at Boston Harbor Marina in Olympia. At about 9 or 10 pm on a Saturday, we assemble at the marina and lead participants to the docks where we have staged submersible [...]

Thursday Dec 23 2004 2:55 PM Five salmon habitat restoration grants totaling $1.63 million have been approved for projects in Pierce County by the state Salmon Recovery Funding Board. The grants were among more than 103 individual projects funded statewide totaling $26.7 million in the fifth annual round of funding projects aimed at creating conditions [...]

By Chester Allen and John Dodge, The Olympian | • Published January 12, 2007 BELFAIR STATE PARK – Environmental engineer Pat McCullough grinned as a bulldozer chewed away at a boulder-studded dike he can’t wait to tear down. When that 1950s-era dike at Belfair State Park goes down sometime this week, Big Mission Creek will [...]

By Richard M. Johnson The jack salmon is looked at as either a fun fish to catch on an ultra light spinning rod, or the failure of a perfectly good fish to reach it’s potential. When I say “jack”, I’m referring to a precocious male salmon that decides to grow up in a hurry. It [...]

JOHN DODGE THE OLYMPIAN July 3, 2005 Section: Saving Salmon Page: 04A CARLYON BEACH — The terraced rock wall interspersed with mostly native trees and plants in front of Jack Charneski’s summer home is an island in a sea of concrete bulkheads that armor the Carlyon Beach shoreline along Squaxin Passage. While the project is [...]

By Blaine Harden Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 30, 2005; A21 PORTLAND, Ore. — In a surgical strike from Capitol Hill, Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) has eliminated a little-known agency that counts endangered fish in the Columbia River. The Fish Passage Center, with just 12 employees and a budget of $1.3 million, has [...]

Art takes spawning lesson to new level BY VENICE BUHAIN THE OLYMPIAN LACEY — Shannon Andino and Brandon Meyer’s descriptions of Kennedy Creek during salmon spawning season are deceptively simple. “Dead salmon,” Brandon said. “The water was milky,” Shannon said of the fertilization process. “I know that sounds kind of weird.” But last month’s field [...]

From The Olympian, January 7, 2006: $4 million doled out to South Sound groups Projects to help Salmon BY JOHN DODGE THE OLYMPIAN Fourteen South Sound salmon recovery projects totaling $4 million were funded Friday by the state Salmon Recovery Funding Board. The money came from an equal share of federal and state grants that [...]