Intensively Monitored Watersheds Homepage Select a watershed complex from the list below: Hood Canal Watersheds Strait of Juan de Fuca Watersheds Lower Columbia Watersheds Other Monitoring Efforts Wild Salmon Population Monitoring Skagit River System Cooperative

Hood Canal Complex Land use in the Hood Canal complex (Little Anderson, Big Beef, Stavis, and Seabeck Creeks) range from urban and residential in Little Anderson Creek to almost entirely forestry in Stavis Creek. In Little Anderson Creek, lack of wood and off-channel habitat have been identified as factors likely constraining salmon production. Seabeck Creek displays evidence of channel incision in some locations and significant amounts of sediment deposition in other channel segments. The incision in this watershed may actually be contributing to low summer flows by reducing groundwater storage. Big Beef Creek has a small impoundment that impacts water temperature downstream and provides habitat for various warm water fishes that may prey on coho and steelhead smolts. Stream Habitat Information Substrate Distribution Habitat Types Large Woody Debris 2005 Field Season Select a watershed from the map below: