DNR Grants Conservation Easement to Pacific Denkmann Property Across From Hazel Hole

September 2005

The Stillaguamish Tribe, together with Pacific Denkmann Company, applied for a WA Department of Natural Resources Riparian Open Space Easement on 65 acres of land on the North Fork Stillaguamish River across from Hazel Hole on Hwy 530. The easement permanently protects habitat in the Channel Migration Zone, and compensates Pacific Denkmann for the value of timber they cannot harvest. In the next few years, the Tribe hopes to install log jams upstream of the property and redirect flow through historic channels on the property. Upstream holes created by log jams will provide a refuge for Chinook away from Hazel Hole, a well known poaching site. Restoring flow will also provide important side channel habitat for juvenile Chinook salmon.