Salmon Watch Overview
The Salmon Watch Program, created by Oregon Trout in 1993, connects students with local creeks and rivers through a program that focuses on activities centered around Salmon. The program includes in-class curriculum, service-learning projects, and culminates in a field day where the students complete a number of hands-on activities in the field by a local creek or river. The activities focus on the following modules for the program: salmon biology/salmon life cycles, water quality, macroinvertebrates, and riparian systems. Other modules and activities can be substituted as needed. Local experts, including professional fish biologists, hydrologists, botanists, and educators, participate in the program and share their knowledge and experience by teaching programs at the field days.
Programs are currently held in Jackson and Josephine County, and we are working to hold classes in other parts of the Rogue Basin including Curry County and the Illinois Valley with the help of partners. Field locations currently include (or have included) Tou Velle State Park, Valley of the Rogue State Park, McGregor Park, Bear Creek Park, Coyote Trails Nature Center, Palmerton Park, BLM's Provolt Recreation Area, Reinhart Volunteer Park (Grants Pass), and Cantrall Buckley Park. In 2023, we are working to hold a few special focus classes in North Mountain Park.
Partners in the program that provide in kind support, funding, or other assistance include communities, watershed councils, non-governmental organizations, Land Conservancies, Council of Governments, local utilities (water commission and Rogue Valley Sewer Services), educational organizations, and local, state, and federal agencies.
For program information contact info(at)stream-smart.com or click on a contact below.
Current Program Coordinators:
Greg Stabach, Rogue Valley Council of Governments
Amie Siedlecki, Rogue Valley Council of Governments, (541) 423-1371
Alex Galluzzo, Rogue Valley Sewer Services
