CONTENTS Introduction Intensively Monitored Watersheds Smolt/Adult Monitoring Skagit River Lake Washington Green River Deschutes Hood Canal Dungeness Grays Harbor Lower Columbia River Wenatchee River Trapping Gear Publications Data Salmonscape

Publications Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) Reports: 2002 Index Watershed Salmon Recovery Monitoring Report Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt, Andrew Murdoch, Shane Hawkins, and Howard Fuss: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Bill Ehinger: Washington Department of Ecology Monitoring of all components except habitat began in 2000 and 2001 in five index watersheds: Deschutes River and Big Beef Creek in Puget Sound; Bingham Creek on the Washington Coast; and Cedar Creek and Chiwawa River in the Columbia Basin. This report describes the results of monitoring that occurred during the second year of the project; between October 2001 and September 2002. It also describes the results of first year smolt monitoring under the index watershed monitoring program. 2003 Juvenile Salmonid Production Evaluation and Adult Escapement: Intensively Monitored Watersheds (IMW) Annual Report Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt, Laurie Peterson, Lindsey Fleischer, Steve Neuhauser, Pat Hanratty and Lori Kishimoto. September 2004 This report presents the 2003 smolt production estimates for the Hood Canal and Lower Columbia IMWs and the 2003 escapement estimates for the Hood Canal IMWs. It also details the field work and analytical steps taken to produce these estimates. 2003 Juvenile Salmonid Production Evaluation Report Green River, Wenatchee River, and Cedar Creek Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt, Pete Topping, Lindsey Fleischer, Todd Miller, Steve Schonning, Dan Rawding, Michelle Groesbeck, Robert Woodard, and Shane Hawkins. November 2004 This report includes our smolt monitoring activities in the Green River in the fourth year of this project. IMW Plan 2004: Evaluating Watershed Response to Land Management and Restoration Actions: Intensively Monitored Watersheds (IMW) Progress Report Appendix A - 2004 Juvenile Salmonid Production Evaluation and Adult Escapement: Intensively Monitored Watersheds (IMW) Greg Volkhardt, Steve Neuhauser, Pat Hanratty, Lori Kishimoto, and Laurie Peterson This appendix presents the 2004 freshwater smolt production estimates for the Hood Canal and Lower Columbia IMWs and the 2004 escapement estimates for the Hood Canal IMWs. It also details the field work and analytical steps taken to produce these estimates. 2004 Green/Wenatchee/Cedar Creek Greg Volkhardt, Pete Topping, Lindsey Fleischer, Todd Miller, Steve Schonning, Dan Rawding and Michelle Groesbeck This report includes our smolt monitoring activities for the Green River in the fifth year of this project. 2005 Juvenile Salmonid Production Evaluation Report Green River, Dungeness River, and Cedar Creek Greg Volkhardt, Pete Topping, and Lori Kishimoto, WDFW Science Division This report includes activities for the Green River in the sixth year of this project, and the first year of freshwater production monitoring after enhanced escapement through supplementation of spring Chinook in the Dungeness River. Green River 2000 Green River Juvenile Salmonid Production Evaluation Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt, Lori Kishimoto and Pete Topping.  April 2002 This report documents our investigations during the first year of this project and the first year of pre-construction baseline monitoring for the Howard Hansen Dam Additional Water Storage Project.  Includes estimates of Green River wild chinook freshwater production, migrant size, and migration timing.  In addition, this report also describes the results of our one-year juvenile chinook trapping project in the Big Soos Creek.  This project assessed the level of natural production resulting from hatchery parents spawning in the wild. 2001 Green River Juvenile Salmonid Production Evaluation Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt, Pete Topping, Lindsey Fleischer and Lori Kishimoto.  October 2004 This report documents our investigations during the second year of this project.   2002 Green River Juvenile Salmonid Production Evaluation Greg Volkhardt, Lindsey Fleischer, and Pete Topping.  March 2005 This report documents our investigations during the third year of this project. 2003 Juvenile Salmonid Production Evaluation Report Green River, Wenatchee River, and Cedar Creek Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt, Pete Topping, Lindsey Fleischer, Todd Miller, Steve Schonning, Dan Rawding, Michelle Groesbeck, Robert Woodard, and Shane Hawkins. November 2004 This report includes our smolt monitoring activities in the Green River in the fourth year of this project. 2004 Green/Wenatchee/Cedar Creek Greg Volkhardt, Pete Topping, Lindsey Fleischer, Todd Miller, Steve Schonning, Dan Rawding and Michelle Groesbeck This report includes our smolt monitoring activities for the Green River in the fifth year of this project. 2005 Green/Dungness/Cedar Creek Greg Volkhardt, Pete Topping, and Lori Kishimoto, WDFW Science Division This report includes activities for the Green River in the sixth year of this project. 2006 Juvenile Salmonid Production Evaluation Report: Green River, Dungeness River, and Cedar Creek Pete Topping, and Lori Kishimoto, Josua Holowatz, Dan Rawding and Michelle Groesbeck, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Fish Program This report includes our smolt monitoring activities in the Green River in the seventh year of this project. Lake Washington 1997 Sammamish River Sockeye Salmon Fry Production Evaluation Dave Seiler and Lori Kishimoto.  November 1997 This report describes the results of our first year of assessing the juvenile sockeye population from the Sammamish system, near Bothell. 1997 Cedar River Sockeye Salmon Fry Production Evaluation Dave Seiler and Lori Kishimoto.  November 1997 This report describes the results of our sixth year of assessing the juvenile sockeye population in the Cedar River.   1998 Sammamish River Sockeye Salmon Fry Production Evaluation Dave Seiler and Lori Kishimoto.  December 2001 This report describes the results of our second year of assessing the juvenile sockeye population from the Sammamish system. 1998 Cedar River Sockeye Salmon Fry Production Evaluation Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt and Lori Kishimoto.  December 2001 This report describes the results of our seventh year of assessing the juvenile sockeye population in the Cedar River.   1999 Cedar River Sockeye Salmon Fry Production Evaluation Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt and Lori Kishimoto.  December 2001 This report describes the results of our eighth year of assessing the juvenile sockeye population in the Cedar River. 2000 Cedar River Sockeye Salmon Fry Production Evaluation Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt, Lindsey Fleischer and Lori Kishimoto.  November 2002 This report describes the results of our ninth year of assessing the juvenile sockeye population in the Cedar River. Evaluation of Downstream Migrant Salmon Production in 1999 and 2000 from three Lake Washington Tributaries: Cedar River, Bear Creek, and Issaquah Creek Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt and Lori Kishimoto.  February 2003 This report describes the results of our first and second years of investigating wild chinook production in the Cedar River, Big Bear Creek and Issaquah Creek watersheds within the Lake Washington Basin.  It also describes the freshwater production of other anadromous salmonids in these systems, except sockeye fry production from the Cedar River.  1999 and 2000 sockeye fry production from the Cedar River are described in separate reports. Evaluation of Downstream Migrant Salmon Production in 2001 from the Cedar River and Bear Creek Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt and Lindsey Fleischer.  June 2004 This report describes the results of our tenth year of assessing the juvenile salmonid population in the Cedar River and our third year at Big Bear Creek. Evaluation of Downstream Migrant Salmon Production in 2002 from the Cedar River and Bear Creek Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt and Lindsey Fleischer.  September 2004 This report describes the results of our eleventh year of assessing the juvenile salmonid population in the Cedar River and our fourth year at Big Bear Creek. Evaluation of Downstream Migrant Salmon Production in 2003 from the Cedar River and Bear Creek Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt and Lindsey Fleischer.  January 2004 This report describes the results of our twelfth year of assessing the juvenile salmonid population in the Cedar River and our fifth year at Big Bear Creek.   Evaluation of Downstream Migrant Salmon Production in 2004 from the Cedar River and Bear Creek Dave Seiler, Greg Volkhardt and Lindsey Fleischer.  March 2005 This report describes the results of our thirteenth year of assessing the juvenile salmonid population in the Cedar River and our sixth year at Big Bear Creek. Evaluation of Downstream Migrant Salmon Production in 2005 from the Cedar River and Bear Creek Greg Volkhardt, Dave Seiler, Lindsey Fleischer, and Kelly Kiyohara.  April 2006 This report describes the results of our fourteenth year of assessing the juvenile salmonid population in the Cedar River and our seventh year at Big Bear Creek. Evaluation of Downstream Migrant Salmon Production in 2006 from the Cedar River and Bear Creek Kelly Kiyohara and Greg Volkhardt. March 2007 This report describes the results of our fifteenth year of assessing the juvenile salmonid population in the Cedar River and our eighth year at Big Bear Creek. Evaluation of Downstream Migrant Salmon Production in 2007 from the Cedar River and Bear Creek Kelly Kiyohara and G. Volkhardt. March 2008 This report describes the results of our sixteenth year of assessing the juvenile salmonid population in the Cedar River and our ninth year at Big Bear Creek Skagit River 2006 Skagit River Wild Salmon Production Evaluation Annual Report Clayton Kinsel, Greg Volkhardt, Lori Kishimoto and Pete Topping, WDFW Science Division This report includes downstream-monitoring activities for the Skagit River in the seventeenth year of this project. Other Reports: Assessment of Factors Limiting Salmon Production in Devil’s Hole Creek Greg Volkhardt, Pete Topping and Dave Seiler.  December 2000 The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Wild Salmon Production Unit was contracted by the Department of the Navy in 1998 through 2000 to provide a species and habitat assessment corrective design project for the Devil’s Hole watershed on the Naval Submarine Base, Bangor, Washington.  This report describes the methods and results of the species and habitat assessment work conducted during spring and summer 1999 and 2000. Dungeness River Chinook Salmon Rebuilding Project Chris Marlowe, Bill Freymond, Robert W. Rogers and Greg Volkhardt.  January 2001 This report on the captive brood stock effort aimed at the restoration of Dungeness River chinook salmon summarizes the production and in-river evaluation of the captive brood stock in Spring 1993 through August 2000. Steelhead Spawning Ground Surveys, Temperature, and Discharge Monitoring in Small Tributaries of the Columbia River Upper Middle Mainstem Subbasin, 2005-2007 Casey Baldwin The primary objective of this project was to determine the distribution and abundance of summer steelhead redds, monitor temperature, and discharge in 12 small tributaries to the Columbia River in the Upper Middle Mainstem Subbasin.