The Tide is Coming Home - Middle Fork Hoquiam Tidal Restoration Project
Grays Harbor Conservation District is excited to share our ten minute documentary film that captures a local tidal habitat restoration project six years in the making. This film provides a first hand look at the planning and construction that took place in the summer of 2021 to restore rare sitka spruce tidal habitat on the Middle Fork Hoquiam River at a site developed over a century ago as a railroad log dump by the Polson Brothers Logging Company.
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Special thanks to all of the partners that made this possible:
Chehalis River Basin Land Trust
Natural Systems Design
Brumfield Construction
Clark Crane
Swiftwater Films
Washington Coast Restoration & Resiliency Initiative
Salmon Recovery Funding Board
Green Diamond resource Company
Rayonier Company
Grays Harbor County
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife
Washington Department of Natural Resources
Washington Department of Ecology
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Refreshing to see humans restoring the land instead of degrading the land.😊
Congratulations to everyone involved. It’s amazing to see these kinds of projects done in time-lapsed fashion. I am so grateful to all the people who foresaw this plan and brought it to fruition. It’s great to see the knowledge and education we’ve gained over the last 50 years or so blossom into something so vital to our environment. Thank you for the project and this video.
at the edge of my seat as soon as they started digging
Very Cool Project!
Wow! Floding usable land. What progress!
@billsmith5109
3 күн бұрын
What do you imagine the old railroad fill having been used for? It was growing red alder.
Love your work 👍it's great to see projects like this from start to finish! I have recently completed the same but on a smaller scale here in North Queensland, Australia. We reconnected a lagoon that was blocked from tidal influence for around 50 years. The best part was getting down there on the first big tide to see the water pushing in and the fish that rode in with it. 🙂 Congratulations to you all for your efforts.
Oh, this is so exciting.
This cinematography was just stunning, absolutely amazing project
This was so incredibly well shot. Especially with the time-lapse at the end. Its this kind of nature work that is so up my alley, it excites me and drives me crazy that there is countless barriers preventing me from being able to even do something like this.
@switzerlandch4986
11 ай бұрын
Yeah
Excellent use of our timbermen they are amazing to watch.
Great job. I always enjoy learning about projects like this.
amazing quality video for an amazing project!
Excellent..
Awesome!
This is amazing work.
This is really neat work good job
More salmon. Investing in the future.
I support this
WOW!!!
Smoltification is the time for anadromous fishes to adjust to salinities while simultaneously gaining the size, weight, experience and ability to out migrate to the Ocean.
Large woody debris, boulders, natural Rock formations, and other natural formations may allow for broader interpretation for evaluating the Spruce contributions to the instream cover complexity as this fact is and has been compacted, often disconnected from high or seasonal flows necessary for the volumes of water, cover, oxygen content, vegetative instream and on banks should be researched to find opportunities to provide adequate cover, water quality, natural flows, to re-establish upland to bank stability, flood channels, volume assessment to rewild these attributes that establish the features, conditions, Salinities, natural known saltwater or estuarine conditions prior to the degradations Society imposed.
Estuarine backwaters should provide the habitat for many anadromous Species thrive, while vegetative associations, bench marks of bank channel width, river depth, bedrock or structural composition, riverine systematic analyzation of saltwater levels as conditions change, dissolved oxygen content, water temps, all contribute to the health of this recharging of the system and seasonal flows will mean more substantial recruitment through high cover, viable flows, and other aspects of natural function to increase the diversity.
The tone is that the Logging Companies and other forces that be, did not unsuccessfully deal with or were able to impact Fisheries management Issues as most Native Anadromous Species have probably been negatively affected and those Stocks pummeled.
I've been all over this area.. seems healthy to me. And had no Idea any of this was going on.. thanks for the Update.. who is the General? Local I hope..
@christopherschumacher9677
Жыл бұрын
Brumfield Construction out of Aberdeen
Salmon age classes and young of the year may mix in these waters as different Salmon Species are uniquely divided in their Species makeup, to uniquely make use of the broadest aspects of the Freshwater habitats. Chinook prefer mid-channel, large, dynamic they hunt in this main thalweg most of their juvenile lives. Coho prefer side channel, slower water, feeding mostly at night and in deep pools or hiding in cover or preferring the slow or deeper side channels. This details how integrated these Species are at covering the Riverine ecosystem from headwaters to the Sea.
My grandfather lives couple miles outside of hoquiam on the 101.. his property floods at high king tide every winter ... will this help that problem ?
Do not turnover Rights when Responsibilities still remain unclear, keep Dialogue and Review through public Councils a to be neglecting the costs of prior Services, Companies refusing to pay their share, and the waterway now the only public right?
Why do they all have hard hats on... theyre outside in the wild! Sunhats or beanies I could understand, but hard hats? When they're not even around construction equipment? Seriously? Ps I've spent quite a bit of time on construction sites and mines. Hard hats have their place.
I wanna know how much money was spent on this project.
@JadeTadros
Жыл бұрын
Not enough, it should have been done years ago
@inigoromon1937
Жыл бұрын
Any objection on righting a wrong?
@bpdp379
Жыл бұрын
This was one of 77 total projects funded by a 14.6 million dollar grant….money well spent.
@craiglinnemeyer1324
Жыл бұрын
@@inigoromon1937 yeah the axe is garbage to begin with. Maybe deal with the sbitty property managers and homeless population. That area is garbage because of liberal agenda with shit like this really not doing much. Hoquiam and Aberdeen both need to fall off the map.
@craiglinnemeyer1324
Жыл бұрын
@@JadeTadros I think a few other things should be done first. This is bullshit
Keep them for needed downed woody debris, making news about the money not knowing many of the natural processes that were overtaken by these same Principles, Nature will then start working naturally again, Volunteers are the unusual norm, some know more than those machines for sure, now they glorify themselves while Nature is waiting to bat.
Busy work and cash taken from the folks that used to make a living logging. Now they are unemployed and squeezed by government.