CONTENTS Introduction Intensively Monitored Watersheds Smolt/Adult Monitoring Skagit River Lake Washington Green River Deschutes Hood Canal Dungeness Grays Harbor Lower Columbia River Wenatchee River Trapping Gear Publications Data Salmonscape

Intensively Monitored Watersheds (IMW) Introduction In recent years, the citizens of Washington have made substantial investments intended to recover salmon and steelhead populations.  Restoration actions have included habitat improvement projects, the use of selective fisheries to reduce impacts on wild salmon, and a revision of hatchery practices designed to aid salmon recovery.  Land-use activities have come under increased scrutiny where they impact salmon production.  While these projects and activities are designed to aid salmon recovery, the need clearly exists to demonstrate the cause-and-effect relationship between these measures and salmon population response.  Thus in 2003, the Washington Departments of Fish and Wildlife and Ecology, and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe implemented the Intensively Monitored Watersheds Project to determine the response of salmon populations to habitat restoration and other management actions occurring in a few selected, well-studied, watersheds. The projects is currently being implemented in three areas and include ten small watersheds: Hood Canal (Little Anderson, Big Beef, Seabeck, and Stavis Creeks), Strait of Juan de Fuca (East and West Twin, and Deep Creeks), and Lower Columbia (Mill, Abernathy, and Germany Creeks). The Skagit and Wenatchee rivers were added in June 2004 to monitor listed chinook and steelhead populations. Partners in this effort include: Weyerhaeuser; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) NW Fisheries Science Center; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group; Hood Canal Coordination Council Technical Advisory Committee; Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board Technical Advisory Committee; Wahkiakum Conservation District; Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe; and Center for Water and Watershed Studies (UW). IMW Data & Publications IMW Plan IMW Data IMW Habitat Component Intensively Monitored Watershed Project The Intensively Monitored Watershed project is a joint effort of the Washington Departments of Fish and Wildlife and Ecology, NOAA Fisheries, EPA, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Weyerhaeuser Company. The premise of the IMW project is that the complex relationships controlling salmon response to habitat conditions can best be understood by concentrating monitoring and research efforts at a few locations.