Amazingly, salmon return every fall to spawn in Pipers Creek Watershed. This is an all-too-rare success story in urban creeks that is well worth witnessing and learning more about. A few Chum and Coho salmon were sighted as early as October 19 this year. More fish, if they’re gathering in numbers out in the Sound, will […]
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Salmon fry released 3-5 years ago from the CWCAP and SIS salmon programs return in late October. Over the last several years, first sightings of salmon in Piper’s Creek have occurred in late October. Following that general pattern, peaks in numbers of adults occur in mid-to-late November with numbers of new arrivals tapering off towards the
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A lot of weather people came out to Carkeek Park Saturday, May 13th — in the rain of course — to wish almost 5,500 school-raised fish a safe journey down Venema Creek to Piper’s Creek, to Puget Sound, and eventually to the Pacific Ocean. Each of these well cared for fish has a chance now
Shoreline College students joined CWCAP on Saturday, March 4, 2017 as their Environmental Club sought to understand the various ways in which Seattle Public Utilities and homeowners around the steep ravines of Carkeek Park manage surface water runoff.
Friday, February 17, 2017 was our first class of the imprinting season with 44 2nd & 4th graders from Viewlands Elementary School.
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