Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group

Proposals for levee setback and floodplain construction on Reecer Creek were received on July 14 at Ellensburg’s City Hall.  Mid-Columbia Fisheries is currently taking the bids under consideration.  The bid tabulation may be downloaded here: Reecer Creek Floodplain Restoration Bid Summary

Mid-Columbia Fisheries, in partnership with the City of Ellensburg, the South Central Washington RC&D, and the Yakama Nation, is soliciting bids for levee setback and floodplain restoration along Reecer Creek.  A pre-bid conference will be held July 6 at 10am, and bids are due to Ellensburg’s City Hall by 3pm on July 14.  Bid packages [...]

Mid-Columbia Fisheries and the Benton Conservation District are seeking a landscape architect or designer to create riparian planting “templates” for the Yakima watershed.  Please see the Request for Qualifications here.

The report of our activities in fiscal year 2009 (July, 2008 – June, 2009) has just been posted!  Check it out for summaries of the collaborative habitat and education projects on which we’ve been working.  Thanks to all of our partners for another great year!

Mid-Columbia Fisheries is working with partners to enhance salmon habitat at two locations in Yakima County this fall.  The first location is along Cowiche Creek.  Nearly 400 feet of old railroad bed wereremoved and the streambank sloped back to allow the creek to access its floodplain.  Additional rip rap materials were removed along the left [...]

Effective September 8, 2009, Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group is soliciting bids for two upcoming projects.  A mandatory bid tour for each project was held on September 11. Bids are due on September 18.  The projects are as follows:
1)      Cowiche Creek.  A contractor is needed to remove a house, shed, dike, and garbage, and to relocate fill [...]

Restoration of a one half mile stretch of Trout Creek and the removal of a 1930s era dam will begin July 1 on a $2 million project on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest near the former Wind River Nursery north of Carson, Washington.  In-stream work will occur during the summer months to lessen impacts to [...]

Effective May 8, 2009, Mid-Columbia Fisheries is soliciting bids for a responsible contractor to remove an old agricultural bridge across Coleman Creek at Olmstead State Park, near Kittitas, WA. Work must be completed by June 30, 2009. The goal of the project is to improve instream fish habitat conditions in Coleman Creek by removing the bridge, [...]

Reecer Creek Floodplain Restoration Project:
Archaeological Monitoring  
The Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group (Mid-Columbia Fisheries) requests proposals for archaeological monitoring for the Reecer Creek Floodplain Restoration Project in Ellensburg, WA.  Proposals are due by 3PM on August 6, 2010.
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Mid-Columbia Fisheries is pleased to be working with the Cascade Land Conservancy, the Kittitas County Conservation District, and WSU Extension on a riparian restoration demonstration project on Helen McCabe State Park.  The project will compare riparian plant and noxious weed establishment in areas of total cattle exclusion and areas that are flash-grazed.  Project funding is [...]