Table of Contents for 2000 Salmon Watcher Report

2000 Volunteer Salmon Watcher Program in the Lake Washington Watershed

May 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
Redmond Stream Team
Snohomish County Surface Water Management
Cities of Kirkland, Renton, Seattle, and Woodinville

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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

Volunteer Training
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 Tributaries
Sammamish River Tributaries
East Lake Sammamish Basin
West Lake Sammamish Basin
Summary

Volunteer Activity
Benefits of the Program
Basins
Species

RECOMMENDATIONS

GLOSSARY
REFERENCES

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1. Volunteer observers for the 2000 volunteer Salmon Watcher Program.

Table 2. Site ID, site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and previous years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the Big Bear Creek Basin for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 3. Site ID and fish counts (live and dead) with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the Big Bear Creek Basin for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 4. Site ID, site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and previous years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the Cedar River Basin for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 5. Site ID and fish counts (live and dead) with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the Cedar River Basin for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 6. Site ID, site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and previous years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the East Lake Washington Basin for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 7. Site ID and fish counts (live and dead) with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the East Lake Washington Basin for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 8. Site ID, site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and previous years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the Issaquah Creek Basin for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 9. Site ID and fish counts (live and dead) with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the Issaquah Creek Basin for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 10. Site ID, site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and previous years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the North Lake Washington Tributaries for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 11. Site ID and fish counts (live and dead) with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the North Lake Washington Tributaries for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 12. Site ID, site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and previous years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the Sammamish River Tributaries for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 13. Site ID and fish counts (live and dead) with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the Sammamish River Tributaries for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 14. Site ID, site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and previous years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the West Lake Sammamish Basin for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 15. Site ID, site location (listed in river miles, RM), survey dates, total number of surveys, number of volunteers, and previous years the sites were watched for each stream surveyed in the East Lake Sammamish Basin for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 16. Site ID and fish counts (live and dead) with dates seen at each stream surveyed in the East Lake Sammamish Basin for the 2000 spawning season.

Table 17. Citizen contacts made by Salmon Watcher volunteers in each of the surveyed basins, including drainages outside the Lake Washington Watershed.

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1. Lake Washington Basins surveyed for the 2000 Salmon Watcher Program.

Figure 2. Sites in the Lake Washington Basins surveyed by Salmon Watcher volunteers in 2000.

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 Lake Washington Watershed for each day from August 30, 2000, until February 5, 2001.

Figure 5. Observations of salmonids in the Big Bear Creek Basin.

Figure 6. Observations of salmonids in the Cedar River Basin.

Figure 7. Observations of salmonids in the East Lake Washington Basin.

Figure 8. Observations of salmonids in the Issaquah Creek Basin.

Figure 9. Observations of salmonids in the North Lake Washington Tributaries.

Figure 10. Observations of salmonids in the Sammamish River Tributaries.

Figure 11. Observed spawning run of live salmonids in the entire Lake Washington Watershed for 2000.

Figure 12. Number of volunteers watching in the Lake Washington Watershed and number of sites watched from 1997-2000.

Figure 13. Percentage of total fish observed in 2000 by volunteers.

Figure 14. Distribution of chinook salmon in the Lake Washington Watershed based on Salmon Watcher observations.

Figure 15. Distribution of sockeye salmon in the Lake Washington Watershed based on Salmon Watcher observations.

Figure 16. Distribution of coho salmon in the Lake Washington Watershed based on Salmon Watcher observations.

Figure 17. Distribution of kokanee in the Lake Washington Watershed based on Salmon Watcher observations.

LIST OF APPENDICES

A. Central Puget Sound Drainages report and raw data (536KB)

B. Data Collections Form used in 2000 (Word document)

C. Big Bear Creek Basin raw data for 2000 (438KB)

D. Cedar River Basin raw data for 2000 (573KB)

E. East Lake Washington raw data for 2000 (621KB)

F. Issaquah Creek Basin raw data for 2000 (97KB)

G. North Lake Washington Tributaries raw data for 2000 (937KB)

H. Sammamish River Tributaries raw data for 2000 (428KB)

I. East Lake Sammamish Basin raw data for 2000

J. West Lake Sammamish Basin raw data for 2000

K. 2000 Hylebos Creek Salmon Survey

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Updated: February 6, 2001

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