Research and Restoration
January 12, 2012 - 1:12pm | 
staffResearch Projects
Our research informs decisions in the community and helps to engage residents and visitors in watershed stewardship. We believe that a better understanding of our landscape natually leads to increased stewardship of the area. Our research programs are listed here and new projects are added as they become developed. To learn more about a particular project, click on it. If you see a project you would like to volunteer on or get to know a little better, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Fish Distribution
Haines Borough Fish Passage Inventory and Assessment
Haines Borough Fish Distribution
Watershed Assessment
West Klehini Watershed Assessment
Holgate Creek Water Quality and Quantity Study
Sawmill Creek Watershed Assessment
Water Quality Assessment
Community Waste Solutions Water Quality Assessment
Research in Education
Sawmill Creek Fish Passage In 2008 a fish passage culvert was installed to replace a culvert that had been blocked. Above the culvert, only cutthroat trout lived. Since they could not get to sea, they spawned at small sizes. Below the culvert cutthroat, coho and dolly varden fry, smolt and spawners lived. Seventh grade students conducted a fish passage study for the new culvert. In october 2009, the first coho fry was observed above the culvert. By October 2010, fry and spawners of all three species were observed above the culvert.
GLOBE Program Haines School is a GLOBE school. Students collect atmosphere data (precipitation, clouds and contrails, and temperature), hydrology data (temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity and benthic macroinvertebrates), and phenology data (Frost Tube, green-up and budbust, seaweed)
Restoration Projects
Sawmill Creek One of TWCs first projects was to restore a stretch of Sawmill Creek. For many years, trash and debris had accumulated in the creek such that it had become obstructed. Fish, coho salmon, Dolly Varden and cutthroat trout, were unable to move freely. In fact some fish were found living in nearby ditches. With the help of Haines School students, the creek was cleaned up, the creek bed restored, and fish transferred from ditches to the creek.