South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group

Well, about 647 visitors and a handful of docents were at the Trail this weekend to witness the end of this year’s salmon run.  It was a quiet weekend and a nice way to wrap up a busy month, especially when you added the free coffee from Batdorf & Bronson coffee roasters! Station 3 did [...]

This weekend brought unusual and much welcomed sunshine to the Kennedy Creek Trail. We enjoyed nearly 500 inquisitive and excited visitors on Saturday alone.  We even had the pleasure of welcoming visitors from the Seattle area, who read about the trail in this recent Seattle Times article. The latest update from the Squaxin Island Tribe [...]

Our opening weekend brought us nearly 300 visitors and several dozen chum, and on Saturday, we were given a day of rain that left as we arrived, and came back as we closed up the trail. Regardless of the weather, I always find Kennedy Creek magical.  Greeting these amazing creatures who have travelled thousands of [...]

Approximately 25 dedicated and eager docents, and SPSSEG and MCD staff congregated in the Kennedy Creek parking lot on that crisp, sunny, autumn day. All enjoyed a fascinating talk on salmon biology Steve Schroder, a WDFW salmon research biologist, a salmon dissection by Bruce Stewart, fish pathologist from the NWIFC, and a guided walk through [...]

Today, folks from Mason Conservation District, Kennedy Creek Quarry, and Mason County Jail, along with yours truly, pruned vegetation, set up netting, and put up the signs for the Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail. After some rain, it turned out to be a crisp, sunny fall day.  We were accompanied by the splashing of male chum [...]