This is part of an email I received about this

Then on a lucky stab, I decided to send a copy of all the e-mails on it
to Dave Pflug, the fish bio for Seattle City Light, when I heard that
some SCL land was recently purchased in the same vicinity within the
last year or so specifically for fish habitat mitigation for the upper
Skagit dams. BINGO! They flew over it the next day and went ballistic.
Appears the rogue inchannel work by the landowner on the opposite bank
may have taken out a logjam along the SCL property (one of the good fish
attributes they bought it for) because they thought it was deflecting
flow against their bank, and they then put big rip-rap in to harden
their own bank and to attempt to get the river to go back the other way.


The river had been gradually drifting that way for 20 years according to
an aerial photo SCL (and sent one to me) showing how the river has kept
developing a long point bar upstream gradually consolidating two
channels around an island gravel bar into one main channel. The big
Oct. flood completed the job of vacating the one smaller channel on the
SCL side of the river from the property owner. The cat and trackhoe
work extensively dug out that smaller channel again hoping to divert the
river back into it.

Of course, this time of year chum, pinks, and chinook are all coming out
of the gravel and are in migration downstream. Potentially ESA listed
chinook redds were in that very area. Chum are known to have spawned in
that area by the thousands this fall as well as pinks. Whatever
survived the flood is toast now. An extensive length of river was
channelized with the big equipment running all through it. Bull trout
and juvenile steelhead were likely impacted as well.