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At Gold Basin, a river is moved to save endangered salmon
VERLOT — How do you move a river?
That’s the task crews faced this summer on the South Fork Stillaguamish River, by the Gold Basin Campground.
The answer: A lot of digging.
Workers demolished half the sites at the always-full campground off Mountain Loop Highway, ripping out concrete and fire pits and pit toilets. They logged hundreds of trees and dug a new 2,600-foot channel. Then, in August, they switched the river, like switching directions on a railroad track. As the water drained, they caught and moved hundreds of fish — Coho and juvenile Chinook salmon, rainbow trout, sculpin,lots of whitefish and a single bull trout.
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https://www.heraldnet.com/news/at-gold-basin-a-river-is-moved-to-save-endangered-salmon/