South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group

Title: Green Drinks
Location: to be announced
Information:
If you care about the environment and want to meet like-minded folks, join us for a glass of beer or wine. There are no programs at Green Drinks. No one will talk at you for a half hour. Green Drinks is just a way to get acquainted with [...]

Today we removed all of the signs and netting at the Trail.
While we were there we took a look at what was happening in the creek.
There were amazingly a few live chum, but most of them were in an advanced state of decay.

Notice the whiteness in the water around the fish? It isn’t a reflection,  [...]

When: Thursday, January 22, 2009
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Lacey Community Center
6729 Pacific Ave SE, Lacey, WA, 98503 map
Every January SPSSEG hosts our annual membership meeting. Of course, you do not have to be an SPSSEG member to attend this FREE EVENT. All are welcome to come enjoy refreshments, an SPSSEG restoration project [...]

Here is a selection of videos from this November:
Chums Swimming and Dying

Well, about 647 visitors and a handful of docents were at the Trail this weekend to witness the end of this year’s salmon run.  It was a quiet weekend and a nice way to wrap up a busy month, especially when you added the free coffee from Batdorf & Bronson coffee roasters!
Station 3 did not [...]

It started out a quiet day at my abode
from where I did wander.

All I had to do was turn around

take a winding walk

over trails of chum now deceased.

Finding a family gathering

stopping to enjoy some koi with them

oh no…just the weary, persistent salmon.

Leaving this assemblage

I find my attention drawn by other gatherings

by the evidence left behind

and [...]

By John Dodge | The Olympian • Published October 01, 2008
OYSTER BAY – The Kennedy Creek estuary is small in size, but it’s a high-value habitat when it comes to shorebirds, chum salmon, raptors and salt marsh.
On Tuesday, this little-known ecosystem near the Thurston-Mason County line became more accessible to birders, [...]

Title: Green Drinks
Date: 2008-12-03
Start Time: 5:30 pm
End Time: 7:30 pm
Location: To be announced
Description: If you care about the environment and want to meet like-minded folks, join us for a glass of beer or wine. There are no programs at Green Drinks. No one will talk at you for a half hour. Green Drinks is [...]

This weekend brought unusual and much welcomed sunshine to the Kennedy Creek Trail. We enjoyed nearly 500 inquisitive and excited visitors on Saturday alone.  We even had the pleasure of welcoming visitors from the Seattle area, who read about the trail in this recent Seattle Times article.
The latest update from the Squaxin Island Tribe revealed [...]