Christmas Creek

On Wednesday May, 20^th 2015 we went to a site called Christmas Creek phase 2. This time we had to dig several ferns, moss, and other trees and plants. The drive was south of Forks and it was about a 30 mile drive. It roughly took us 25 minutes to get out there. When we got there the planting site was pretty barren, there were hardly any plants there and it was mostly dry dirt. We planted a lot of plants at 2 different spots right along the river bank. We then took about 500 willow stakes and put them in the river so that they would be ready to plant.

We grabbed the plants from the woods. We dug them with shovels sometimes and sometimes we just ripped them out of the ground. We got the moss from trees and stumps in the woods close to the river. Then we planted them along the river bank where there wasn’t very much vegetation.

The reason we planted because the plants provide shade for the water and keeps the temperature low, it also stabilizes the bank, and gives homes to insects that salmon eat. I found this research at Fishbio.com. The Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition has been doing projects like this to help the salmon for years. I have been with PCSC for one year and we have done this on multiple sites such as Christmas Creek, Hoh River, Solduc and many others.