Spring 2025 Yukon River Drainage Salmon Habitat Restoration Online Newsletter
Introduction to the Inaugural Edition!
We are happy to introduce the first newsletter covering habitat restoration activities and topics related to Yukon River drainage salmon! This publication is an output from an Outreach and Awareness Working Group that was formed during a February 2025 Interior Alaska Salmon Habitat Restoration Summit put on by the Tanana Valley Watershed Association, Trout Unlimited,…
Feb 2025 Interior Alaska Salmon Habitat Restoration Summit Recap
In late February 2025, organizers from the Tanana Valley Watershed Association, Trout Unlimited, and various tribal organizations put on a three-day Interior Alaska Watershed Restoration Summit. The summit was held at the Birch Hill Cross Country Ski Center in Fairbanks, AK, not far from the banks of the Chena River. The primary objectives of the…
USFWS Recent and Upcoming Restoration Projects
Recent and Upcoming USFWS Restoration Activities in the Yukon River Drainage USFWS has collaborated with many agencies and entities to conduct a variety of habitat restoration activities recently within the Yukon River drainage, with more great work planned in 2025. Below is a summary of goings-on: Recent work: 2025 Activities: For more information on these…
Canadian Restoration Projects
Recent and ongoing Canadian aquatic habitat restoration efforts in the Yukon River drainage The story of salmon habitat restoration in the Yukon River drainage would not be complete without highlighting recent and ongoing aquatic restoration activities on the Canadian side of the border. The Yukon River headwaters in northern British Columbia and flows for several…
University of Alaska Fairbanks Coal Creek Project
University of Alaska Fairbanks Coal Creek Project Thomas House at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is currently conducting a bioenergetics study at historically mined Coal Creek in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve as a part of his master’s thesis. Coal Creek is tributary of the Yukon River and has the potential to support populations of rearing…
Alaska Department of Fish and Game Activities
Alaska Department of Fish and Game Activities The 2025 field season brings exciting developments for the ADF&G restoration team. We will be launching our 3-year Yukon River Drainage culvert survey project. This project will inventory and assess fish passage conditions on roads in the North Star Borough and adjacent major highways including the Elliot, Dalton,…
US Bureau of Land Management Activities
US Bureau of Land Management Activities The BLM has been hard at work the past few years bolstering ecosystem functionality among historically placer mined streams such as Nome Creek in interior Alaska. We’ve incorporated an integrated strategy using Natural Channel Design (NCD), Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration (LTPBR), and revegetation techniques to improve degraded stream processes while…
University of Alaska Fairbanks Cripple Creek and Nome Creek Projects
University of Alaska Fairbanks Cripple Creek and Nome Creek Projects Dakota Keller, biology masters student at UAF, is currently studying the potential changes in macroinvertebrate communities following stream restoration practices on Cripple Creek, in Fairbanks, and Nome Creek, in the White Mountain Recreation Area. Both of these streams are within the broader Yukon River drainage…
UAF Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center Projects
Research to Action for Yukon River Salmon: Adapting to Climatic, Food-Web, and Habitat Changes Healthy salmon runs need productive, high-quality habitat in both the ocean and in the watersheds that support spawning and rearing. But habitat restoration is expensive, so where should we focus our efforts to provide the most benefit? Of all the potential…
Recent Relevant Scientific Publications
“Early evidence for establishment of a Chinook salmon population in a restored watershed” “Food-web dynamics of a floodplain mosaic overshadow the effects of engineered logjams for Pacific salmon and steelhead” “Managed extinction: The decline and loss of wild salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest” “Forest restoration can bolster salmon population persistence under climate change”…
Are we missing any projects, or does any of this information need to be corrected? Please contact kfraley@wcs.org if so!
Arctic Beringia Fish Ecology 