Locals are exploring the possibility of bringing back a king salmon incubation facility on Big Boulder Creek in an effort to bolster a history of falling Chinook returns.
The long defunct incubation operation began in 1991, after the state reconstructed the bridge spanning the creek, in an attempt to mitigate spawning habitat loss after the creek straightened and its flow changed. Staff would take brood stock from the creek and artificially spawn salmon fry. The…