Sustaining Eyak Lake Salmon Habitat
In 2023 the CRWP team with input from community partners started a project to convene an Eyak Lake Working Group to collate and organize historic data as well as identify and collect new data on Eyak Lake in Cordova.
Data identified by partners has been included in a publicly available, digital database and interactive web map application hosted and managed by CRWP. Explore the Data!
This project builds off of the 1985 Eyak Lake AMSA Cooperative Management Plan dataset while incorporating new datasets to improve available data for management decisions.
Three products are publicly available:
- The ESRI Story Map provides background information on this project. It describes the work done to update and digitize the historic records.
- The Eyak Lake Atlas is a digitized set of interactive maps based on the 1985 data included in the original Eyak Lake AMSA Cooperative Management Plan and symbolized as such.
- Eyak Lake Spawning Dashboard. This data visualization is in progress but shows the differences in the three spawning bed surveys conducted in the 1980s, 2010s, and 2020s. It includes an interactive map that shows the spawning habitat locations, Anadromous streams, and culverts that run into Eyak Lake.
Next Steps: CRWP will coordinate with partners, youth, and volunteers to implement restoration activities (stream-bank restoration, bank stabilization, etc.) at high priority sites identified by the partnership.
View the full Eyak Lake spawning map here or interact with it below.
Contact Ashley Taylor to be added to our email list for updates specific to this project or for more information.
