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Williams Creek Watershed Council
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PO BOX 94
WILLIAMS, OR 97544
Coordinator: Arthur Sherman E-mail: wcwc.arthur@oigp.net
The Williams Creek Watershed Council is in its sixth year of coordinating a salmon egg-raising program at our local elementary school. Every fall, students from the fourth and fifth grade classes at the Williams Elementary School help set up an aquarium in the school library, which becomes a temporary home for 100 Chinook salmon eggs (donated by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife). Together with a council volunteer, students oversee the conditions in the tank, ensuring that the temperature, pH and dissolved oxygen levels will support the egg-hatching process. Once the eggs have hatched and the alevins are “buttoned up,” the salmon fry are released into the Rogue River.
Students learn about salmon life cycles and the habitat conditions necessary for salmon survival.