Seabeck Creek is one of four Hood Canal Intensively Monitored Watersheds (IMW). The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife IMW program is designed as a Before-After Control-Impact (BACI) study in order to determine whether and how habitat restoration activities influence abundance of salmon and steelhead.
Currently, Seabeck Creek is suffering from a legacy of industrial-scale logging and rural development, resulting in restricted fish passage and impaired hydrological processes. The creek lacks instream wood, channel roughness, and off-channel habitats. Fish cannot progress upstream to their critical spawning and rearing habitats due to a failed fish ladder and an undersized culvert, located where the creek crosses Seabeck Holly Rd. NW. Seabeck Creek is home to Salmon such as Coho, Fall Chum, and ESA listed Puget Sound Steelhead.