Students will be involved every step of the way. Some of our efforts will work. The point is, we can't continue business as usual and hope to return to the incredible days of salmon fishing that we had in the early part of the century. We hope you'll help us in our effort to restore the Chinook. An excerpt from Charley Dewberry's Restoring Knowles Creek is also available on this site.
Restoration is a long-term process.
The working hypothesis of this plan is that human activities have significantly degraded the productive capacity of the Chinook watershed for over 150 years, and that significant restoration will take more than a century. The plan assumes that no short-term technological fixes will reverse the degradation. Rather, critical areas of the watershed must be allowed to recover naturally, thereby providing high quality salmon habitat. Recovery of the chinook, chum and coho salmon populations in the Chinook basin will take a whole-basin approach. In recent decades, we have come to understand that streams are intimately linked to their drainage basins.