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1998 and 1999 Volunteer Salmon Watcher Program in the Lake Washington Watershed

 

January 2001

 

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

Cedar/Lake Washington/Sammamish Watershed Forum

Bellevue Stream Team
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Fisheries Department
Redmond Stream Team
Snohomish County Surface Water Management
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Cities of Bainbridge, Bothell, Issaquah, Kirkland, Renton, Seattle, and Woodinville


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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF APPENDICES

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION

METHODS

Volunteer Training
Survey Timing
Data Collection and Analysis
Quality Assurance/Quality Control

RESULTS (257KB)

Big Bear Creek Basin
Cedar River Basin

East Lake Washington Basin

Issaquah Creek Basin

North Lake Washington Basin

West Lake Sammamish Basin

West Lake Washington Basin

Summary

DISCUSSION

LIMITATIONS OF VOLUNTEER DATA
BASINS

Big Bear Creek Basin
Cedar River Basin

East Lake Washington Basin

Issaquah Creek Basin

North Lake Washington Basin

West Lake Sammamish Basin

West Lake Washington

SPECIES

BENEFITS OF THE DATA

RECOMMENDATIONS

GLOSSARY
REFERENCES

 

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1. Volunteer observers for the 1998 volunteer Salmon Watcher Program.

Table 2. Volunteer observers for the 1999 volunteer Salmon Watcher Program.

Table 3. Site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, volunteers, sites, and fish seen (live and dead) at each stream surveyed in the Big Bear Creek Basin for 1998 (a.) and 1999 (b.).

Table 4. Site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, volunteers, sites, and fish seen (live and dead) at each stream surveyed in the Cedar River Basin for 1998 (a.) and 1999 (b.).

Table 5. Site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, volunteers, sites, and fish seen (live and dead) at each stream surveyed in the East Lake Washington Basin for 1998 (a.) and 1999 (b.).

Table 6. Site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, volunteers, sites, and fish seen (live and dead) at each stream surveyed in the Issaquah Creek Basin for 1998 (a.) and 1999 (b.).

Table 7. Site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, volunteers, sites, and fish seen (live and dead) at each stream surveyed in North Lake Washington Tributaries for 1998 (a.) and 1999 (b.).

Table 8. Site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, volunteers, sites, and fish seen (live and dead) at each stream surveyed in Sammamish River Tributaries for 1998 (a.) and 1999 (b.).

Table 9. Site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, volunteers, sites, and fish seen (live and dead) at each surveyed site in West Lake Sammamish Basin streams for 1999.

Table 10. Site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, volunteers, sites, and fish seen (live and dead) at each stream surveyed in the West Lake Washington Basin for 1999.

 

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1. Lake Washington Watershed basins surveyed for the 1998 and 1999 Salmon Watcher Program.

Figure 2. Sites in the Lake Washington Watershed surveyed by Salmon Watcher volunteers in 1998 and 1999.

Figure 3. Observations of salmonids in the Big Bear Creek Basin for 1998 and 1999.

Figure 4. Observations of salmonids in the Cedar River Basin for 1998 and 1999.

Figure 5. Observations of salmonids in the East Lake Washington Basin during 1998.

Figure 6. Observations of salmonids in the East Lake Washington Basin during 1999.

Figure 7. Observations of salmonids in the Issaquah Creek Basin for 1998 and 1999.

Figure 8. Observations of salmonids in the North Lake Washington Tributaries for 1998 and 1999.

Figure 9. Observations of salmonids in the Sammamish River Tributaries for 1998 and 1999.

Figure 10. Observed spawning run of salmonids (live and dead) in the entire Lake Washington Watershed for (a.) 1998 and (b.) 1999.

Figure 11. Percentage of total fish observed by volunteers in 1998 (a.) and 1999 (b.) by volunteers

Figure 12. Distribution of chinook salmon in the Lake Washington Watershed.

Figure 13. Distribution of sockeye salmon in the Lake Washington Watershed.

Figure 14. Distribution of coho salmon in the Lake Washington Watershed.

Figure 15. Distribution of kokanee in the Lake Washington Watershed.

 

LIST OF APPENDICES

A. Puget Sound Drainages report and raw data (298KB)

B. Snoqualmie River Basin report and raw data (25KB)

C. Data Collections Form used in 1998 and 1999 (Word document)

D. Big Bear Creek Basin raw data for 1998 and 1999 (643KB)

E. Cedar River Basin raw data for 1998 and 1999 (368KB)

F. East Lake Washington raw data for 1998 and 1999 (885KB)

G. Issaquah Creek Basin raw data for 1998 and 1999 (398KB)

H. North Lake Washington Tributaries raw data for 1998 and 1999 (526KB)

I. Sammamish River Tributaries raw data for 1998 and 1999 (638KB)

J. West Lake Sammamish Basin raw data for 1999 (66KB)

K. West Lake Washington Basin raw data for 1999 (9KB)

 

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Updated: February 6, 2001

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