[env-trinity] Hoopa Valley Tribe Gets Funding to Improve Fish Passage

[Tom Stokely]

Tribe Gets Funding to Improve Fish Passage
http://www.tworiverstribune.com/2012/05/tribe-gets-funding-to-improve-fish-passage/

The Hoopa Valley Tribal Fisheries Department secured grant funding to remove a fish passage barrier on Hostler Creek in an effort to restore about three miles of fish habitat. The project is expected to begin in August of this year. / Photo courtesy of Hoopa Valley Tribal Fisheries.
PRESS RELEASE, Hoopa Valley Tribal Fisheries

Thanks to a final piece of grant funding awarded through partnership funds from American Rivers and the NOAA Restoration Center, salmon and steelhead will soon be able to stretch their fins into the upper reaches of Hostler Creek, a tributary to the Trinity River located on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. Currently, an antiquated, artificial waterfall that once served as part of an irrigation diversion limits fish access to just one mile of Hostler Creek. As a result, salmon and steelhead are cut off from high quality spawning and rearing habitat further upstream, just beyond reach.

“Removing fish passage barriers is an essential tool to restoring the salmon and steelhead populations of the Trinity River basin. We are honored to be one of only six projects selected for funding nationwide,” said Andrea Hilton, Senior Hydrologist for the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s Fisheries Department

This funding was matched by an award made by the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund through the Klamath River Intertribal Fish and Water Commission to make the project possible. The project will be implemented during August and September 2012 and is anticipated to restore an additional two to three miles of fish habitat to Hostler Creek. The total cost of the project is approximately $250,000.

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