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Rearing pond in Salmon Creek watershed ready to help young salmon

Volunteers complete work that was started in 2011

By TERRY OTTO, For The Columbian
Published: October 13, 2021, 8:30pm
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Volunteers with Trout Unlimited dig the new inflow channel to bring cold spring water into a pond in the Salmon Creek watershed. The new channel corrected a flaw in the habitat project's original design.
Volunteers with Trout Unlimited dig the new inflow channel to bring cold spring water into a pond in the Salmon Creek watershed. The new channel corrected a flaw in the habitat project's original design. (Photo courtesy of Jesse Barr) Photo Gallery

Nestled in a quiet, shady corner of Vancouver’s Pleasant Valley Park is a small, log-strewn pond that now offers refuge for juvenile salmon and steelhead within the Salmon Creek watershed.

It is a project that was started in 2011, but never quite worked out as planned.

However, the project was brought back to life this past weekend, through the hard work of a partnership of local conservation groups, and a crew of hardy volunteers.

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