South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group

This weekend marked the closure of another great year out at the Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail.  Although the chum run started a bit earlier then in previous years, there were still many opportunities to catch a glimpse of the wild salmon as they spawned in their natal stream.  Now the life cycle is complete, with [...]

Please check out this television show with Sandra Romero from the Thurston County Connection webpage as she interviews project managers about the shoreline management plan.  Lance Winecka, Executive Director of the South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group, appears in the third segment of the video; approximately 28 minutes through. TCTV September 2010 – Shoreline Management [...]

Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail will be re-opened as of 10/18/2010 and will remain open until further notice.  Please plan for the weather and dress accordingly as it is likely to be cold and rainy.  Have a great time!

By John Dodge | The Olympian • Published October 27, 2008 South Sound’s premier trail for watching salmon spawn is about to open to the public. – South Sound’s premier trail for watching salmon spawn is about to open to the public. If you go The Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail will be open to the [...]

THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR AT THE TRAIL! We hope to see you again next year! Kennedy Creek is one of the most productive salmon runs in South Puget Sound. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity EVERY NOVEMBER to experience these wild salmon on the 1/2 mile, ADA accessible trail, with 11 viewing [...]

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 [...]

The Olympian, September 4, 2006. Chester Allen Two tracked excavators rumbled through the diverted, dry streambed of the Mashel River last week and dropped 40-foot trees and refrigerator-size boulders into a massive, muddy hole. Another disaster for a river that’s taken a lot of punches during the past 100 years? Nope. The excavators are doing [...]