FY2023 Expanding Nooksack Tribal Capacity to Advance Restoration

Salmonid Restoration Planning and Assessments

Restoration Planning And Coordination
Project ID23-NOOK-02
Recovery DomainsPuget Sound
Start Date01/01/2025
End Date06/30/2026
Year2023
StatusNew
Last Edited09/20/2024
 
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Description    


This project will help expand the pace, scale and scope of restoration and reconnection of salmon habitat for ESA-listed chinook, steelhead, and bull trout in the Nooksack watershed. Specifically, the project will fund Nooksack Tribe restoration staff to help plan, secure funding for, conduct landowner outreach and oversee design and implementation of restoration projects, including types of projects that current staff lack sufficient capacity to advance wetland restoration, riparian planting, fish passage restoration, and streamflow restoration. The project will also provide funding to hire a consultant to assess project feasibility and support project planning. The outcome of this project will be increased pace, scale, and breadth of restoration in the Nooksack River watershed relative to prior years, as evidenced by the number and geographic distribution of projects in development and design.

Project Benefit    


The Tribe’s Natural Resources Department Habitat Program has been successfully implementing instream habitat restoration projects since our first such project in 2007. As of 2023, 22 instream restoration projects involving the construction of 367 log jams have been completed in the North and South Forks of the Nooksack River. The program is expanding to encompass planning and implementation of riparian and hydrologic restoration, especially in the South Fork Nooksack River. The goal of the project is to increase capacity to develop and advance instream, riparian, and hydrologic restoration projects to increase the pace and expand the scale of restoration in the Nooksack River watershed.

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Worksites

North and South Forks of the Nooksack River    


  • Worksite Identifier: North and South Forks of the Nooksack River
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Area Description
Nooksack River Watershed

Location Information

  • Basin: Puget Sound (171100)
  • Subbasin: Nooksack (17110004)
  • Watershed: Nooksack River-Frontal Bellingham Bay (1711000405)
  • Subwatershed: Anderson Creek-Nooksack River (171100040501)
  • State: Washington
  • Recovery Domain: Puget Sound
  • Latitude: 48.8238
  • Longitude: -122.216

ESU

  • Puget Sound Chinook Salmon ESU

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Metrics
  • B.0 Salmonid Restoration Planning and AssessmentsY (Y/N)
    •      . . B.0.a Planning And Assessment Funding .00
    •      . . B.0.b.1 Area Encompassed
    •      . . B.1 Restoration Planning And CoordinationY (Y/N)
      •      . . . . B.1.a Planning and Coordination funding
      •      . . . . B.1.b.8 Conducting habitat restoration scoping and feasibility studiesY (Y/N)
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      •      . . . . B.1.b.11 Engineering/design work for restoration projectsY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . B.1.b.11.a
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