Walla Walla Watershed

The Touchet River is a crucial waterway for endangered bull trout, steelhead and reintroduced spring Chinook salmon in eastern Washington, however problems with water quantity, mainstem passage, and riparian habitat pose significant challenges to their survival. In many years, low flows and high temperatures limit downstream migration of juvenile steelhead and upstream migration of adult […]

WWT has worked with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the City of Walla Walla and landowners to help rewater 31 miles of Mill Creek that would get almost entirely diverted in late summer, and support passage for threatened summer steelhead and bull trout to quality upstream habitat.