Preliminary Impacts of Constructed Log Jams on Streambed Topography and Bed Temperature on the South Fork Nooksack River

• Main Author: Kaiser, Sam
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Western CEDAR 2019
• Subjects: Fish; Habitat restoration; Science; Stream; Temperature; Environmental Sciences; Higher Education; Pacific; South Fork; Orca; Orcinus orca
• Online Access: https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwu_honors/129; https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1128&context=wwu_honors

Salmon are an essential part of the culture, ecology and economy of the Pacific Northwest region of North America, but populations of some ecotypes are declining. One specific population, the Puget Sound chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), is listed as threatened under terms of the U.S. Endangered S...