The Salmon Watcher Program is centralized around the Lake Washington Watershed (WRIA 8), but because of interest by volunteers and agencies in other areas, streams outside the Lake Washington Watershed are also monitored. Most of these stream systems drain into Central Puget Sound and are reported in this appendix. Also reported herein are data on Hamm Creek, a stream draining into the Duwamish River.

In 2000, volunteers surveyed eight streams that drain to Central Puget Sound and one that drains to the Green/Duwamish Watershed (Table A1.). Surveys on Des Moines Creek began August 31. Pipers Creek surveys began in mid-September and observations in Longfellow, Miller, Walker, and Hamm creeks began at the end of September. Fauntleroy, Venema, and Boeing creeks surveys began in October. Surveys in Boeing and Walker creeks were concluded in November and surveys in the other creeks were completed during December. Each site was watched by 1-3 volunteers, with the exception of Fauntleroy Creek, which was watched by 18 volunteers (see below). From 1 to 6 sites were watched per stream and between 2 and 61 surveys were completed at each site, with the exception of Fauntleroy Creek, which had 149 surveys. Raw survey data for each stream are presented below in Tables A3-A11.

Beginning in 1998, after Seattle Public Utilities completed a fish ladder, volunteers began surveying Fauntleroy Creek. The site is on private property, and the property owners, volunteers and the founders of Friends of Fauntleroy Creek, began allowing access for other Salmon Watchers in 1999. Because of the great amount of interest and so many volunteers, Salmon Watcher volunteers on Fauntleroy Creek schedule themselves in shifts so no volunteers are watching at the same time. The site at Fauntleroy Creek is watched more frequently than any other Salmon Watcher site, and this should be kept in mind when looking at the numbers of fish counted.

Several sites were watched along both Longfellow Creek and Pipers Creek. Coho were seen as far upstream on Longfellow Creek as RM 1, but not as far as the uppermost point at RM 2.7. Coho were observed as far as RM 0.5 in Pipers Creek, the uppermost site surveyed. Chum were also observed at the uppermost site surveyed in Pipers Creek, as well as the other two sites in the stream. Additionally, two volunteers in Pipers Creek spotted chum outside their viewing areas (i.e., just upstream or just downstream). Coho were seen in Fauntleroy Creek at the one survey site near the mouth of the stream. Coho and chinook were both observed in Boeing Creek up to RM 0.1, the uppermost point surveyed in that stream. Coho were seen in all streams except Walker and Venema creeks, where no fish were observed. In Hamm and Des Moines creeks, coho and unidentified species were seen at the only survey sites, at RM 0.1 in Hamm Creek and at the mouth of Des Moines Creek. Coho and unidentified species were seen at both sites in Walker Creek, including the uppermost site at RM 0.2. The five unidentified fish at RM 0.9 in Longfellow Creek in Table A1. were reported as chinook. Although a single live chinook may have been seen in Longfellow Creek in 2000 during extensive surveys by the City of Seattle (Lynch, pers. comm.), it is unlikely the five fish reported by the volunteer were chinook because the City's surveyors would almost certainly have seen them and because these fish were reported so late in the season.

Coho in Longfellow Creek were observed over a 73-day period from October 18 through December 30. Initial coho sightings in Hamm, Miller, and Des Moines creeks were all within 9 days of each other, from October 22 to October 31, and final sightings in each stream ranged from December 9 in Miller Creek to December 30 in Hamm Creek. The observed chum run in Pipers Creek lasted one month, from November 18 to December 17. Volunteers began surveying Fauntleroy Creek October 21, and the first coho were observed two days later. The last coho seen in Fauntleroy Creek was December 15 and surveys continued only two days after that. The two chinook seen in Boeing Creek were observed on October 29, and the coho run was observed from October 21 until the last day of surveys in that stream, November 27.