history

One of the Evergreen Fly Fishing Club's cornerstone principles is conservation. Since the club's founding, our members have continuously volunteered to educate others and work with projects to save our natural resources. We have a Conservation Committee that meets monthly to discuss conservation issues and related activities that the club can participate in or promote.

CULVERT REMOVAL PROJECT

EFFC's most recent project has been the removal of an undersized, perched culvert on Indian Creek, a tributary to the Stillaguamish River in Arlington, WA. Indian Creek is a prime salmon spawning stream where our club had been assisting with native planting projects. This culvert was located behind a residential street on property owned by a local electrical power utility. The culvert supported a rarely used maintenance access road along the utility company's transmission line. Our club helped to find a solution to resolve this barrier to migrating salmon, which ultimately led to the removal of the culvert entirely and daylighting the creek during the summer of 2005. Now salmon can use approximately 5 miles of previously inaccessible stream corridor for spawning and rearing habitat. Members of the EFFC returned in the fall to replant the banks with native willow and salmonberry.

(Above: perched culvert)

(Below: creek after culvert removal and prior to replanting with native vegetation)

NORTH FORK STILLAGUAMISH MONUMENT

Our conservation committee has also constructed a historical sign/monument on the North Fork Stillaguamish River. The sign tells about the local history of fly fishing on this river and the important pioneering role the North Fork Stillaguamish played as the first river in Washington to have a "Fly Fishing Only" regulation for summer run steelhead.

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