Salmon Gold: Fall's Creek Restoration Project

How do you return a former gold claim back to a salmon bearing stream?

Join the Susitna River Coalition on November 22, 2022 at 6PM on the Denali Education Center Talkeetna Campus as we welcome gold miner Howard Carbone and watershed restoration engineer Corinne Marzullo to discuss a stream restoration project. 

*There will be an option for virtual attendance*

In 2022 a landowner implemented a stream channel and floodplain restoration project on Falls Creek, a tributary to Cache Creek in the Mat-Su Borough, Alaska.

Beginning in 1906, mining operations in the area have adversely affected stream function and habitat. The channels are deeply entrenched creating poor fish habitat, have little sinuosity or large woody debris, few pools and side channels, and are artificially straightened and confined limiting interaction with the riparian and flood plain areas.

To design the new channel, a disturbed reference reach was used as a template. Neighboring…