A Kirkland restaurant owner wondered why she didn’t see more salmon migrating through the section of Juanita Creek running along her property.
So Cafe Juanita owner and executive chef Holly Smith took it upon herself to transform her portion of the creek — and give the migrating salmon a healthier highway.
With the help of two local environmental nonprofits, the Adopt a Stream Foundation and the King Conservation District, Smith had a whole host of tree stumps chained together along the stream bank, and logs and a boulder added to the water.
“This created 100 feet of refuge for salmon and trout while they’re in that [migration] process,” Smith
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