The Save the Bay boat carries reporters to the transplant site.

A NOAA scientist prepares a camera to document the transplant process at one of the sites.

Rock and gravel are delivered to the restoration site. The rock is placed with a bucket and pay-loader.

Volunteers move the new "fish habitat".

Initial arrival of the "raw fish habitat".

PG&E Corp assist the project by providing a front-end loader and man power for the volunteer-based restoration project.

Cobble habitat is tossed into North River to replace storm water sediments on the river bottom.

Volunteers work to restore smelt spawning habitat.

State biologists Brad Chase and Mike Armstrong search for smelt eggs. A 2001 discovery of smelt eggs in the river led to the development of the initial development of the restoration project.

Mike Armstrong, Massachusetts Department of Marine Fisheries, pitches in at the restoration site.

Volunteers work on site with Karen Young (standing) of Salem Sound 2000.

Volunteers at the town boundary work to place habitat structure.

Volunteers take a hard-earned lunch break.

Volunteers place two sizes of rock at the site, large and small cobble.

The restored bottom in the foreground of the picture.

Looking downstream, note the new light colored rocks on the bottom.

A patch of new spawning habitat.

A close-up of a small size patch of new habitat.

100,000 pounds of stone later...Volunteers smile and relax after completion of the work.

Former Seaboard Lumber site, was renamed Herring House following restoration. This is the site design layout.

Herring House site prior to restoration activities. The site consisted primarily of a parking lot.

Seattle, WA from Kellogg Island, Duwamish River

View from the Herring House site across to Kellogg Island and beyond to the Duwamish River.

No restoration work is planned for Kellogg Island at this time, it is considered a bird sanctuary and wildlife habitat.

Turning Basin, Elliott Bay

View across from Turning Basin.

Duwamish River, Norfolk outfall by Boeing at Turning Basin

Storm water run off adjacent to the Turning Basin No. 3 project. This area is unofficially called PAL creek. It is seen here in its pre restored condition.

Former Kenco Marine has been purchased by the Muckleshhot Indian Tribe on behalf of the Eliot Bay/ Duwamish River Natural Resource Trustees. The habitat value of the property will be enhanced by removing the structure on the site and pulling back the shoreline to create mudflat, salt marsh, and a riparian buffer habitat for fish and wildlife.

Hamm Creek, a Coastal America project to restore salmon spawning habitat.

Hamm Creek, a Coastal America project to clean channel to provide better habitat conditions for spawning salmon. This project involved the planting of trees and placement of rock to control erosion and removal of the old ferry.

An oiled common murre

An adult common murre. The common murre sustained the highest level of injuries after the Apex Houston oil spill.

Local schoolchildren from the Half Moon Bay area repaint the decoys that were used to attract common murres back to Devil Slide Rock.

Devil Slide Rock from the water

Project personnel deploy decoys onto Devil Slide Rock.

Project personnel deploy decoys onto Devil Slide Rock.

Scientists and project personnel arrive at Devils Rock to begin placing decoys to attract common murres.

Little Eightmile Ranch along the Lemhi River, one of the areas selected for for the livestock exclusion fencing restoration project. This image shows the stream prior to the fencing. Erosion is evident.

Little Eightmile Ranch along the Lemhi River, one of the areas selected for for the livestock exclusion fencing restoration project. This image shows the stream prior to the fencing. Erosion is evident.

Blackbird Creek, at the mine site. This creek is devoid of life because of the high levels of copper leached from the mine. Contamination is from acid mine drainage containing high levels of copper.

Little Eightmile ranch, another view of the eroding habitats.

Little Eightmile ranch, another view of the eroding habitats. More evidence of cattle damage. Over 6.5 miles of fencing was placed to protect the Lemhi River and was completed in 1998, as part of the restoration.

An image showing the healthy riparian habitat. Restoration goals include undercut banks, woody debris in the water, and clean stream bottom.

Big Spring Creek on Little Eightmile Ranch, two miles of the creek were fenced to exclude livestock and protect the riparian habitat.

A close-up of the fencing type used at the Little Eightmile Ranch site.

A pair of Chinook salmon on a redd. Lemhi, River, Eightmile Ranch.

Panther Creek, an image of the stream that was affected by Blackbird Mine. The creek had very good habitat but for the mine discharge. By 1960 steelhead trout and chinook salmon were extirpated from the river due to the contaminants released at Blackbird Mine.

An image of the lower section of Panther Creek.

An image of the middle section of Panther Creek.