Past restoration projects
Listing of past restoration projects completed by CRWP
The CRWP has led or participated in the following salmon habitat restoration projects:
- Salmon Viewing Platform, Gulkana River: we built a viewing platform for tourists to safetly view spawning salmon and to protect river bank vegetation and salmon habitat.
- Eyak Lake, Cordova: we restored 600' of shoreline to recreate a natural and safe habitat for spawning salmon, growing fry and returning juveniles.
- Lake Elsner, Copper River delta: we stabilized and re-vegetated stream banks at failed logging road stream-crossings;
- Fish Creek, upper Gulkana River (northwest corner of Copper River drainage): we cut a new trail to connect two existing trail sections on land and reduced seven ATV stream crossings to one, protecting 20,000 spawning sockeye.
- Middle Fork trail, Gulkana River: with the Rivers and Trails Conservation Assistance program of the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management, we helped install 1,000 feet of porous pavement panel to protect wetlands from ATV erosion and prevent sediment from washing into the Middle Fork of the Gulkana River, which hosts highly productive sockeye and king salmon runs.
