Log and rock structures placed in a channel dug last year are aimed at increasing king salmon spawning capacity in Big Boulder Creek.
Since 1995, between 30 and 130 kings return to spawn there annually, but spawner counts in the early 1980s went as high as 300 fish. Road construction that channelized the stream below the highway and bridge work there as recently as 1990 may have precipitated the decline.
Takshanuk Watershed Council executive director…
