Chinook salmon in Lower Cottage Lake Creek near Redmond and Woodinville, October, 1999. Photograph by Bill Smith. Chinook salmon in Issaquah Creek near Issaquah, October, 1999. Executive Ron Sims declares October is Salmon Month in King County. A Volunteer Cedar River Naturalist teaches some small fry about the salmon life cycle.
Volunteers plant native shrubs and trees along the banks of the Sammamish river.
Find out how planting vegetation helps salmon . Looking at a large chinook salmon at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery. Spawning chinook salmon in Lower Cottage Lake Creek near Redmond and Woodinville, October, 1999. Photo by Bill Smith. King County DNR biologist Ken Carrasco takes a tissue sample from a spawned out chinook as part of a DNA study.