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CWCAP, UW Ecology, and SPU Salmon Stewards Celebrate Salmon on Nov 18, 2018

Clean Water, Coho salmon, Cutthroat trout, Education, Imprinting, Piper's Creek, Salmon, Suquamish Tribe, Trout, Venema Creek, Volunteers /

The Carkeek Park community of all ages celebrated the annual Piper’s Creek Salmon Celebration on Sunday, November 18, 2018.  In addition to hot drinks, music, good food, and a kid-friendly scavenger hunt through the park, volunteer Salmon Stewards were on hand to welcome, engage, answer questions, and inspire park visitors drawn by the annual Piper’s Creek […]

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Salmon at Carkeek Park
2017 – a year in review

Salmon, Salmon eggs, Salmon in the Schools, Salmon Release, Salmon Survey, Self-release Tank, Suquamish Tribe, Trout, Venema Creek, Volunteers /

2017 began with the natural and exciting imperative to build from the passing of Nancy Malmgren and Bill Hagen at the end of 2016.  Their visions, leadership, and successes are the near magic from which so much has sprouted and continues to bloom.  Thank you, Nancy and Bill, so very much. January 5, 2017: The

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Get ready for salmon in Carkeek Park!

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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 typically begin returning to Carkeek Park in late October…

Clean Water, Donate, Education, Piper's Creek, Salmon Release, Trout, Venema Creek, Volunteers /

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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School-raised fish are now on their way,
ending the 2017 imprinting season at Carkeek Park

Clean Water, Donate, Education, Salmon Survey, Trout, Venema Creek, Volunteers /

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

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