Cascade Fisheries

🐟🐟🐟 Stay tuned! Exciting things happening!!! 🐟🐟🐟

Design discussions restart on hatchery’s salmon life cycle trail - Ward Media LEAVENWORTH – With new momentum from recent grant funding, Cascade Fisheries, along with local and regional partners, is revisiting its decade-old designs for a Salmon Lifecycle Landscape …

We need your help! For the next 48 hours, no contribution is too small during the WA campaign. Help ensure efforts to restore habitat and keep communities engaged in salmon recovery continue and thrive!

Please consider making a donation in any amount today! Link to donate here: https://www.wagives.org/organization/cascadefisheries

🌱🧡🐟🧡🌱 Improving salmon habitat must include caring for what's in and out of the water, and this year 4,532 streamside plants were planted as part of Cascade Fisheries salmon habitat restoration efforts!

Native vegetation is critical to stream health, trees and shrubs increase water quality by reducing erosion and keeping water shaded & temperatures low, and provide food and shelter for both land and aquatic critters.

We need your help to continue and expand our habitat & community engagement programs! 100% of your gifts directly support our work to recover salmon throughout NCW - link to donate early here: https://www.wagives.org/organization/cascadefisheries

Please consider helping us reach our fundraising goal either through donations or by liking and sharing our posts between now and May 8th!

Be a part of grassroots salmon recovery in North Central Washington with Cascade Fisheries! Early giving is now LIVE for the statewide campaign that o-fish-ally kicks off May 7-8! Your donations ensure that our local salmon habitat restoration and community engagement programs that raise awareness of the threats our imperiled native fish are facing and get our youth active in salmon recovery continue and grow! Link to the donation page and more info here: https://www.wagives.org/organization/cascadefisheries

There’s a good feeling we get when we show up for others, especially when it's for those we all care about and rely on for so much.

And it’s not just about good-feels — volunteering or donating money to support salmon recovery helps everyone in the community and guarantees healthy watersheds for all. Great things happen for everyone when you give what you can.

Please consider helping us reach our fundraising goal either through donations or by liking and sharing our posts between now and May 8th!

Thank you, for creating this opportunity for WA nonprofits!

TOMORROW!!!! We'll see you there 😎🐟🧡

OUR TEAM CONTINUES TO GROW! Cascade Fisheries has ANOTHER open position and is recruiting a Salmon Habitat Project Manager

Applicants, please submit your cover letter, resume, and three professional references (5 pages or less) to [email protected].

Please submit the required materials by 5pm on March 16th. Full job description and application submission info link in bio

**Applications received through social media will not be considered.

Be a part of the recovery of North Central Washington's salmon, steelhead, and bull trout!!! Cascade Fisheries is recruiting 4 Seasonal Stream Habitat Assessment Technicians to undertake stream habitat inventories to assess current conditions in streams in the Wenatchee and Entiat watersheds.

Habitat assessments support the prioritization and implementation of future fish habitat restoration and enhancement projects in the region.

Applicants, please submit your cover letter, resume, and three professional references to [email protected]. Application review begins immediately. For the full job description and application requirements visit https://www.ccfeg.org/employment-volunteer

**Applications received through social media will not be considered.

We are so excited for our newest school partner and their first group of coho salmon! Lots of fish fun to come! 🧡🐟

Please consider helping our Yakima River neighbors with this amazing river experience! This program is an inspiration

We protect what we love, and after this weekend's field experience, Wenatchee School District 246 students loved their time spent making amazing memories and deep connections within the Wenatchee watershed! Animal tracks, habitat, and hands-on pelt explorations, testing snow depth (both with probes and going face first 😊), looking out for tree snow "avalanches", nonstop snow snacking, and roasting hotdogs over a charcoal snow fire pit left everyone with ear to ear smiles and thankful for the beautiful places we live near!

Through the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office and Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) Outdoor Learning Grant, these students and others from schools around participate in salmon recovery education & watershed stewardship all year-round in publicly accessible destinations. Grant funding provided staff time and covered transportation & food costs for students. Thank you Cascadia Conservation District for coordinating the outing and to Mission View Elementary School Wenatchee School District After School Program and Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission for your partnership in making this field experience possible! 🧡🐟❄️

We’re back! Join WRI at Ground Control for a no-fuss, approachable night of learning and discussion. On tap this month is an exciting presentation from fish biologist McLain Johnson about aquatic habitat restoration in the Wenatchee Ranger District. Visit this link for more info: https://wenatcheeriverinstitute.org/event-calendar.html/event/2024/01/18/science-on-tap-with-mclain-johnson/463277

Barriers to fish migration keep our native fishes from accessing habitat needed for spawning and survival. Correcting or removing undersized, clogged, and collapsed culverts opens up miles of instream habitat for our finned friends. For private and public landowners, these types of projects also protect homes and transportation infrastructure and keep rivers safe!

These recently completed projects show before and after of barrier corrections on private property along North Star creek, a tributary of the Nespelem River. We work with landowners to improve salmon habitat, to secure funding, and implement projects that benefit people and fish. Thank you to our funders through the Family Forest Fish Passage Program Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office Washington State Department of Natural Resources Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife for making this possible!

Please consider making a donation that will directly support our education and community engagement efforts! Every Funday Monday, each donation of $10 or more will get your name entered to win $1,000 to use on the campaign anyway you choose - https://cfncw.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/grant?grant_id=69373

SCHOOLS FOR SALMON! Over the last few weeks, 1,665+ students from 27 schools across Chelan, Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan counties prepared to raise salmon in their schools, with our first egg deliveries scheduled this week!!

During this 4 month program, students gain hands-on learning through classroom lessons, stewardship projects, and field experiences that inspire our youth to protect and appreciate our imperiled native fishes and watersheds.

Please consider making a donation that will directly support our education and community engagement efforts! Every Funday Monday, each donation of $10 or more will get your name entered to win $1,000 to use on the campaign anyway you choose - link in our bio

SCHOOLS FOR SALMON! Over the last few weeks, 1,665+ students from 27 schools across Chelan, Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan counties prepared to raise salmon in their schools, with our first egg deliveries scheduled this week!!

During this 4 month program, students gain hands-on learning through classroom lessons, stewardship projects, and field experiences that inspire our youth to protect and appreciate our imperiled native fishes and watersheds.

Please consider making a donation that will directly support our education and community engagement efforts! Every Funday Monday, a donation of $10 or more will get your name entered to win $1,000 to use on the campaign anyway you choose - https://cfncw.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/grant?grant_id=69373

Congratulations to our Coordinated Resource Management (CRM) team for winning this year’s Golden Salmon Award! Each year, one of our restoration sponsors uses this special award to recognize their ‘Salmon Recovery Partner of the Year’.
The CRM team is a partnership between Cascade Fisheries, Cascadia Conservation District, and Trout Unlimited's Wenatchee-Entiat Beaver Project, that is dedicated to restoring a network of healthy streams for our native fish populations. This year, the CRM worked on various streams throughout the Wenatchee and Entiat watersheds to restore in-stream habitat, plant riparian vegetation, and remove fish passage barriers. This was our greatest project year yet, and we can’t wait to apply these efforts to more streams in the future!
Interested in giving back to the fish you love through the fundraising campaign? All donations to our efforts in salmon recovery efforts will be matched 1:1 by our partners the Icicle Fund up to $5000 - link in our bio or visit https://cfncw.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/grant?grant_id=69373

Your investment in our work will ensure our communities remain engaged in helping salmon and restoration of critical instream and streamside habitats continue!

🐟 HABITAT RESTORATION FROM 300 ft! Cascade Fisheries and Chelan County Government Natural Resource Department met to capture a bird's-eye view of one of our salmon habitat reconnection projects! CCNRD staff piloted a drone flying 300 feet above the ground in a grid pattern over the project site. The resulting imagery shown here are many individual photos stitched together. Use of drones can also capture ground surface elevation data as a way for us to easily and cost effectively monitor the function and effectiveness of our projects over time. A huge thank you to CCNRD for making this happen!

Interested in giving back to the fish you love through the fundraising campaign? Every Funday Monday, a donation of $10 or more will get your name entered to win $1,000 to use on the campaign anyway you choose! All donations to our efforts will be matched 1:1 by our partners the Icicle Fund up to $5000 - https://cfncw.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/grant?grant_id=69373

Your investment in our work will ensure our communities remain engaged in helping salmon and restoration of critical instream and streamside habitats continue!

Give back to the fish you LOVE! Your donation to Cascade Fisheries through will support critical habitat restoration in our watersheds and help continue our salmon education, community science, and stewardship programs

Every donation will be matched 1:1 up to $5,000 through a challenge grant provided by our partners, the Icicle Fund doubling your contribution to healthy watersheds through community-based efforts!

Today and each Funday Monday of the campaign through December 31st, your donation will be entered to win and additional $1000 to put toward the campaign! To make a donation visit: https://cfncw.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/grant?grant_id=69373

For more information about the campaign and other nonprofits to support can visit www.givencw.org
We are so thankful for the Community Foundation of NCW creating this fundraising opportunity! Let's show our native fish some love!

We need your help to protect new plants on an amazing floodplain property! The Land Trust is looking for volunteers this week - see below!!

Join us November 16th 1pm-3pm to help protect newly planted shrubs by applying mulch.🌱 Last volunteer work party of 2023! Click here to register: https://www.cdlandtrust.org/outings-events/events/mulching-newly-planted-shrubs-lower-sleepy-hollow-preserve

STUDENTS SAVING SALMON! Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office and Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) have announced the award of $3.7 million in grants to provide thousands of Washington’s students with outdoor learning experiences and Cascade Fisheries and partners kicked off our Project: WOW (Watching Over the Watershed) program earlier this week with Wenatchee School District 246 Mission View Elementary School
Lion's Den after school students!

Through this funding, Cascade Fisheries has partnered with Chelan Douglas Land Trust to connect elementary through high school students to the recovery of imperiled salmon and steelhead on the last remaining intact floodplain on the lower . This week, students worked hard on floodplain restoration planting and teamed up with Cascadia Conservation District to set up trail cameras through their recently funded Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Watchable Wildlife program

We are incredibly excited to continue this work and other educational experiences over the next two years and deeply honored to be grantees among so many amazing projects statewide! Thank you to Derby Canyon Natives for our locally raised native plants, to our funders and project partners for their support, and to our top notch student salmon-saving squad ❤️

More information about the Outdoor Learning Grant awards here: https://rco.wa.gov/olg-grant-awards/

We are so excited to join the Q&A panel for this evening's event at Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center

In two days, see the heartwarming short story of The Last Salmon on Oct. 26, from 6-8 PM.

Ki Gottberg and Casey James adapted Phil Davis’s story of Buck and Spring salmon and their adventures with fellow fish friends, with delightful dialogue and original music composed by Grammy-nominated songwriter Mr. James.

These special encore performances will begin with a prayer from Randy Lewis, followed by readings from the original short story by author Phil Davis and musical performances from Rebecca Kinney, playing Spring, and Andrew Tuller, playing Buck.

Registration for this event is available here: https://61981.blackbaudhosting.com/61981/The-Last-Salmon

"Just about everyone knows the amazing story of Pacific salmon returning from the sea, leaping waterfalls, then spawn and die.

Easy right? Well, no."

Thank you Cascade Fisheries Board of Directors member, Ken Bevis, for this FINtastic information about WA salmon and how to help their recovery!!

Autumn is Salmon Time By Ken Bevis, DNR Stewardship Wildlife Biologist, [email protected] Just about everyone knows the amazing story of Pacific salmon returning from the sea, leaping waterfalls, then spawn…

‘Beaver dam analogs’ recreate wild waterways in NCW streams LEAVENWORTH — It’s not every landowner who’d agree to turn part of their back yard into a wetland, but Patti and Vince Bosket are doing just that to their property

Goose Creek Fish Passage and Wood Restoration Project Complete!

Our second project of the summer on USFS lands in the Wenatchee Basin was completed on September 1st. The Goose Creek project restored access to 0.75 miles of habitat for ESA-listed spring chinook, steelhead, and bull trout, as well as many other native fish species, by replacing two culverts that were 100% impassible to fish with much larger culverts. The newly installed culverts had a natural streambed built inside of them and are 100% passable to all species and life stages of our native fish.

Additionally, Cascade Fisheries worked with staff from Cascadia Conservation District and Trout Unlimited's Wenatchee-Entiat Beaver Project to add wood to 0.4 miles of Goose Creek. The wood was added using only hand-held tools such as chainsaws and grip hoists, not to mention a whole lot of elbow grease! In all 11 new log jams were added to Goose Creek which will provide habitat for our native fish and improve the natural processes of Goose Creek, helping to sustain good habitat over time.

A big thank you to:
Our project partners at the U.S. Forest Service - Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
Our construction contractor Kysar & Koistinen Inc.
and project funders the Bonneville Power Administration, the HCP Tributary Committees, and the U.S. Forest Service.