First load of rescued fish moved to Salmon Creek

For the past few years, Dave Brown and a bevy of net-wielding volunteer helpers have scooped up wild baby salmon and steelhead stranded when tributaries that feed the East Fork of the Lewis River run dry in the summer. Rescued from shrinking pools, the fish survive in a series of concrete holding pens Brown built on his property near Daybreak Park. He releases them again when streams start flowing in the fall.

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