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Report: 2001 Salmon Watcher Program in the Lake Washington Watershed and Central Puget Sound Drainages
June 2002

Jennifer Vanderhoof, King County Water and Land Resources Division

King County Water and Land Resources Division, in cooperation with:

Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed Forum
King Conservation District
Bellevue Stream Team
Central Puget Sound Watershed Forum
Snohomish County Surface Water Management
Cities of Issaquah, Kirkland, Redmond, Renton, Seattle, and Woodinville

Main Table of Contents

Please use the following table of contents to visit the different sections of the report.

Summary

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction

Methods

• Volunteer Training
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Quality Assurance/Quality Control

Results (257KB)

• Overview
• Big Bear Creek Basin
• Cedar River Basin
• East Lake Washington Basin
• Issaquah Creek Basin
• North Lake Washington Tributaries
• Sammamish River Tributaries
• East Lake Sammamish Basin
• West Lake Sammamish Basin
• West Lake Washington Basin
• Central Puget Sound Drainages, including Vashon Island
• Tagged Fish
• Summary

Discussion

• Volunteer Activity
• Basins
• Species

Glossary

References

List of Tables

Table 1.Volunteer observers for the 2001 Salmon Watcher Program

Table 2.Stream number, site ID, site location, survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the Big Bear Creek Basin for the 2001 spawning season

Table 3.Site ID, RM, and fish counts with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the Big Bear Creek Basin for the 2001 spawning season

Table 4.Stream number, site ID, site location, survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the Cedar River Basin for the 2001 spawning season

Table 5.Site ID, RM, and fish counts with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the Cedar River Basin for the 2001 spawning season

Table 6.Stream number, site ID, site location, survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the East Lake Washington Basin for the 2001 spawning season

Table 7.Site ID, RM, and fish counts with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the East Lake Washington Basin for the 2001 spawning season

Table 8.Stream number, site ID, site location, survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the Issaquah Creek Basin for the 2001 spawning season

Table 9.Site ID, RM, and fish counts with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the Issaquah Creek Basin for the 2001 spawning season

Table 10.Stream number, site ID, site location, survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the North Lake Washington Tributaries for the 2001 spawning season

Table 11.Site ID, RM, and fish counts with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the North Lake Washington Tributaries for the 2001 spawning season

Table 12.Stream number, site ID, site location, survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the Sammamish River Tributaries for the 2001 spawning season

Table 13.Site ID, RM, and fish counts with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the Sammamish River Tributaries for the 2001 spawning season

Table 14.Stream number, site ID, site location, survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the West Lake Sammamish Basin for the 2001 spawning season

Table 15.Site ID, RM, and fish counts with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the Sammamish River Tributaries for the 2001 spawning season

Table 16.Stream number, site ID, site location, survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the East Lake Sammamish Basin for the 2001 spawning season

Table 17.Site ID, RM, and fish counts with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the East Lake Sammamish Basin for the 2001 spawning season.

Table 18.Stream number, site ID, site location, survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the West Lake Washington Basin for the 2001 spawning season

Table 19.Stream number, site ID, site location, survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the Central Puget Sound drainages for the 2001 spawning season

Table 20.Site ID, RM, and fish counts with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the Puget Sound Drainages for the 2001 spawning season. Vashon Island streams are grouped separately at the bottom of the table

Table 21.Number of citizen contacts made by Salmon Watcher volunteers in each of the surveyed basins

Table 22.Number of hours spent by Salmon Watcher volunteers in each of the surveyed basins

List of Figures

Figure 1.Lake Washington Basins surveyed for the 2001 Salmon Watcher Program

Figure 2.Sites in the Lake Washington Basins and Central Puget Sound surveyed by Salmon Watcher volunteers in 2001

Figure 3.Number of new and returning volunteers surveying in the Lake Washington Watershed for each year of the Salmon Watcher Program

Figure 4.The number of reports turned in from throughout the program area each day from August 30, 2001, until January 30, 2002

Figure 5.Observations of live salmonids in the Lake Washington Watershed and the Central Puget Sound Drainages for 2001

Figure 6.Observations of salmonids in the Big Bear Creek Basin

Figure 7.Observations of salmonids in the Cedar River Basin

Figure 8.Observations of salmonids in the East Lake Washington Basin

Figure 9.Observations of salmonids in the Issaquah Creek Basin

Figure 10.Observations of salmonids in the North Lake Washington Tributaries

Figure 11.Observations of salmonids in the Sammamish River Tributaries

Figure 8.Observations of salmonids in the East Lake Sammamish Basin

Figure 12.Observations of salmonids in the Central Puget Sound drainages

Figure 13.Number of volunteers (defined as an individual, pair, or group) watching in the Lake Washington Watershed and Puget Sound tributaries and number of sites and streams watched from 1997-2001

Figure 14.Percentage of total fish observed in 2001 by volunteers in the Lake Washington Watershed and in Central Puget Sound

Figure 15.Distribution of chinook salmon in the program area based on Salmon Watcher observations

Figure 16.Distribution of sockeye salmon in the program area based on Salmon Watcher observations

Figure 17.Distribution of coho salmon in the program area based on Salmon Watcher observations

Figure 18.Distribution of kokanee in the program area based on Salmon Watcher observations

List of Appendices

B.Data Collection Form used in 2001
(Adobe Acrobat pdf document - follow link to download reader.)

C.Summary of the Snohomish County 2001 Salmon Watcher surveys (no longer available online: please request hard copy)

D.Summary of the 2001 Hylebos Creek Salmon Survey

This program is conducted in cooperation with the King County Water and Land Resources Division, Bellevue Stream Team, Redmond Stream Team, and the cities of Seattle, Bothell, Kirkland, Renton, Woodinville, and the Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust, with support from the King Conservation District.