Natural Infrastructure: Quillayute River

On the Quillayute River on the Washington Coast, Wild Salmon Center and the Quileute Tribe are restoring salmon and steelhead habitat and protecting the community of La Push from catastrophic flooding. This massive cooperative undertaking will cool down water in the lower river for fish and redirect the river’s energy into historic floodplains away from the village. The Quillayute project demonstrates the multiple benefits of sound natural infrastructure planning and execution.

[@fishonshay]

I was wondering why you're not building BDA's and then introducing beavers to do the work for you or is that something you're planning on doing in the future

[@williamcooke6056]

The Quilliute Nation nets steelhead 7 days a week. They did this despite wild steelhead runs going below escapement levels for the first time, back in the early 90's. Sportsmen got screwed because of their choice. So now they are concerned about the fish? No, it is their little port that they don't want to lose. Can't say I don't blame them, but why all the talk about how they care about the fish? They just want more to catch. They'll need a lot of huge logs to slow down the flood currents because it rains tons up there.