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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
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