Salmon Center Dog Park Trails Closed for Maintenance:
Tuesday, June 6th
Farm Stewards Summer camp starts in June!
Support the Hood Canal Steelhead Project
Support the Hood Canal Steelhead Project
The Hood Canal Steelhead Project needs your help! Your donation will directly support our monitoring efforts. Monitoring allows us to see what issues are occurring for threatened Puget Sound Steelhead and create solutions to remove these barriers; it is an absolutely critical component of this project and our overall steelhead recovery effort. Click here to learn more about the project.
Over 30 Years of salmon research, restoration & education in the Hood canal watershed.
The Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group strives to deepen the connection between land, people, and salmon through research, restoration, and education. Our mission is to ensure that wild salmon are once again abundant in the Pacific Northwest.
Duckabush Estuary | Photo Credit: John Knox
Over 30 Years of salmon research, restoration & education in the Hood canal watershed.
The Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group strives to deepen the connection between land, people, and salmon through research, restoration, and education. Our mission is to ensure that wild salmon are once again abundant in the Pacific Northwest.
Duckabush Estuary | Photo Credit: John Knox
Where We Work
With the help of our donors, volunteers, and staff, the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group (HCSEG) participates in restoration and research projects throughout the entire Hood Canal Watershed in the western part of Washington State. These efforts not only benefit local salmon populations, but also support the ecological diversity of this beautiful and scenic natural community.
In addition to habitat restoration and research, HCSEG carries out an assortment of educational programs, supporting students, teachers, and life-long learners. Located next to the Union River estuary, HCSEG’s headquarters, the Salmon Center, has a beautiful, certified organic garden, as well as a variety of farm animals, (llamas, alpacas, chickens, ducks, goats, etc.), to demonstrate how salmon, humans, and agriculture can coexist.
Why Salmon, why now?
137 or more local species depend on salmon for their survival, making them a true keystone species and the biological foundation for our local ecosystem. The Pacific Northwest is known across the globe for its towering tree giants, layers of greenery, resident pods of orca whales, and diverse ecosystem made up of countless plants, bugs, animals, and fungi. This could cease to exist as we know it if we do not act swiftly and strategically to protect our threatened wild salmon populations.
