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Salmon Return to Colter Creek

Map showing Colter Creek within Susitna Watershed
Susitna Watershed, Including Colter Creek
© Corinne Smith/The Nature Conservancy

Pacific salmon will once again return to their spawning beds as they pass through Colter Creek, thanks to support from the Mat-Su Basin Salmon Conservation Partnership, the National Fish Habitat Action Plan, The Nature Conservancy and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Community-based Restoration Program and ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. Restoration of Colter Creek will improve ecological functions at road crossings, including restored passage of juvenile fish, improved stream function, and enhanced fish habitat. Learn more about the Colter Creek Fish Passage Restoration Project.

Since 2001, The Nature Conservancy's Global Marine Initiative and NOAA Community-based Restoration Program (CRP) have partnered to implement innovative conservation activities across the United States. Through this partnership we work to protect the most resilient examples of healthy habitats and restore the health of degraded habitats in ways that benefit marine life, local communities and coastal economies. These projects protect coastal and marine habitat, restore species that are important to ecosystem functions, remove invasive species, create shellfish spawning sanctuaries and re-establish water flows to estuaries. Since 1996, more than 1,000 projects in 27 states have been implemented using NOAA funding and leveraged funding from national and regional habitat restoration partners.