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Page 12 The INDEPENDENT, January 2, 2003 Longview Fibre rem oves road and culvert for salm on access watched this year for evidence fish. Buxton remembers seeing of spawning Coho. “fish in the creek each year un Weeks of rain in December As part of Longview Fibre’s til about twenty years ago.” The brought a fresh push of native commitment to salmon habitat watershed council approached Coho salmon into the Nehalem restoration, they retired a road Tom Budge, manager of River. The salmon waited in crossing and opened up one Longview Fibre’s Vernonia Tree deep pools until the river rose, mile of spawning and rearing Farm, and asked him how they then swiftly moved upstream to habitat on Sanders Creek, could assist in fixing the prob spawn in smaller tributaries of which enters Rock Creek just lem. the Nehalem and Rock Creek. below the Longview Mainline In August of 2002, the road Some earlier arrivals had been and drains almost a square and culvert were retired and the spawning on the same gravel mile of forestland. Jim Buxton, creek was reopened for fish beds recently used by Chinook a landowner on Sanders passage. The first step was re salmon because low river lev Creek, noticed that Coho were moving the old culvert and road els made their usual spawning present last year, but were materials, while diverting beds inaccessible. One particu blocked from most of the streamflow around the project. lar Rock Creek tributary, stream by a culvert that was im R&M Taylor removed over 500 Sanders Creek, was carefully passible to adult and juvenile truckloads of material, and the By Bill Langmaid stream bank was terraced to removal and road building.” Fi mimic a natural shape. The ex bre did just that, and the results cavator operator did a great job have been dramatic. of restoration by placing a Three surveys during the quantity of large boulders to ac week of December 15th re celerate the development of a vealed counts of 13, 19, and 14 natural creek in the newly Coho salmon above the re ditched area. They completed moved barrier - very positive the job - and protected the numbers that demonstrate the work done - by placing over quality of the newly available 200 hay bales to minimize ero habitat. One goal of the water sion problems. shed council is to remove fish Surveying the completed migration barriers, and results work, Buxton said, “...it is one like this show the effectiveness thing to talk about [salmon], but of these actions. It may not another to put one’s money seem like many fish, but each where one’s mouth is and actu of th e se e n d a n g e re d fish is ally bear the expense of culvert Please see page 13 Professional Directory BUNNY BERNADETTE GIRT Agent PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS (5 0 3 )3 5 7 -3 1 3 1 bunny.girt.b71g@statefarm.com P.O. Box 543 1252 N. Adair Cornelius OR 97113 Fax: (503) 357-9667 (503) 429-6115 MOBILE (503) 789-0107 STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANIES 1224 E. 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