What do salmon need for a good home?

• Clean, cool water. Salmon like cool water temperatures and water free of pollutants or heavy silt loads.
• Shelter. Salmon need pools to feed adn rest in. Overhanging vegetation and large woody debris offer protection from predators and a place to rest out of the current.
• Food. Salmon feed on aquatic insects and zoo-plankton (that also depend on clean water), and on insects that drop off stream bank vegetation.

Suffocating Sediment:
Fine sediment in streams litterally chokes fish to death

How does sediment go into streams?

• Bank erosion caused by lack of a vegetated buffer zone
• stream crossings where heavy motor vehicle, bicycle, and foot traffic can churn up sediment to erode into streams.
  
  
  

How can we restore fish habitat?

• Take the trail out of the stream.
• Stabilize the stream bank.
• Re-establish vegetaion