South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group

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Check out the recent National Geographic Traveler article about the Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail:
National Geographic Traveler

The Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail, located between Olympia and Shelton (here is a map), will be open for visitors on weekends beginning Saturday October 31, through Sunday November 29. This is an excellent opportunity for local South Sound residents to see thousands of chum salmon spawning in a natural environment.
This is the ninth year [...]

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,  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our opening weekend brought us nearly 300 visitors and several dozen chum, and on Saturday, we were given a day of rain that left as we arrived, and came back as we closed up the trail.
Regardless of the weather, I always find Kennedy Creek magical.  Greeting these amazing creatures who have travelled thousands of miles [...]

Approximately 25 dedicated and eager docents, and SPSSEG and MCD staff congregated in the Kennedy Creek parking lot on that crisp, sunny, autumn day.
All enjoyed a fascinating talk on salmon biology Steve Schroder, a WDFW salmon research biologist, a salmon dissection by Bruce Stewart, fish pathologist from the NWIFC, and a guided walk through the [...]

Today, folks from Mason Conservation District, Kennedy Creek Quarry, and Mason County Jail, along with yours truly, pruned vegetation, set up netting, and put up the signs for the Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail.
After some rain, it turned out to be a crisp, sunny fall day.  We were accompanied by the splashing of male chum salmon, [...]