Sentences with phrase «salmon habitat»

That river - restoration project is slated to begin in 2020, a decade after American Rivers signed historic agreements to remove four dams and restore access to more than 350 miles of salmon habitat on the Klamath River.

The mine proposed at the headwaters of Bristol Bay is projected to be the largest in North America, generating billions of tons of mine waste and industrializing important salmon habitat in the heart of the world's last great wild sockeye salmon fishery.

All large trees that are removed will be used to create log structures in the new creek channel for salmon habitat.

It goes on to cross an economically and ecologically vital river with salmon habitat areas on either side, in a zone of highest liquefaction potential, in the area of one of four geologic faults flagged by Natural Resources Canada as being of particular concern.

His team does this to prevent overfishing and ruining the natural salmon habitat, and this way each fisherman only harvests a particular number of fish so as to ensure that the ecosystem remains in healthy balance.

In fact, flooding often helps create and maintain salmon habitat by reopening side channels and replenishing spawning gravels.

The good news is that many salmon habitat projects restore and reopen side channels and floodplains that provide rearing habitat for young salmon and refuge from fluctuating flows.

Redwood Creek is currently constrained by a small bridge, the levee road, and the Muir Beach parking lot, which needs to be moved to connect it to its historic floodplain for better salmon habitat and sediment transportation.

«The southern tip of the parking area will be moved back — a huge step in restoring the creek's natural hydrological flow — to help create vital salmon habitat,» said Carolyn Shoulders, project manager for the National Park Service.

Though it is only 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) long, its rushing waters and pebbled bottom make it perfect salmon habitat.

A total of seven different local organizations will receive more than $ 1.4 million in funding to improve salmon habitat in the San Juan Islands of Washington, our main sea kayaking base.

Dam removal, which would open 350 miles of historic salmon habitat, is critical to the restoration of the salmon runs.

WASHINGTON — Global warming could increase flooding, shrink salmon habitat and invite in more invasive species in the West, scientists conclude in a sobering new report.

We've reported on farmed Atlantic salmon escaping into wild Pacific salmon habitat, and how farmed fish threaten marine life and human health.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land — in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

Even though contamination with mercury, pesticides, and persistent organic pollutants (POPS) has become a widespread problem in salmon habitats and has often compromised the quality of salmon itself, there are still some good alternatives for wild - caught salmon including species caught near New Zealand, Norway, and the West Coast of the United States (including Alaska).

Learn about the importance of salmon runs and how critical the protection of salmon habitat is from the Charters River Interpretive Centre and demonstration hatchery.

Over a dozen rivers and creeks in the Sooke area can benefit greatly from restoring and rehabilitating the salmon habitat.

To protect owl and salmon habitats, the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan reduced timber production on national forests in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California by more than 80 percent, resulting in mill closures and job losses that were particularly hard on rural areas with no other industry.