anadromous fish have been reported above this pointo There is more 

 than lOOpOOO souare yards of suitable spawrdnp- area in this lower 

 6 miles o The amount of spawning area decreases steadily above the 

 falls as the gradient increases « There is an impassable falls 30 

 feet high located 15 miles above the moutho 



The Little Wenatchee River is valuable as a spawning area for 

 bluebaok salmono A small remnant of the large early-day blueback 

 run into the Wenatchee system has persisted in the Little Wenatchee 

 River The largest run in the two decades before the Orand Coulee 

 transplantation project was begun amounted to 412 observed spawners 

 in the year 1935o This run was greatly augmented by the transfer 

 of the up-river runs in the period 1939-194oo Traps were installed 

 near the mouth of the stream in 1942 and eggs were taken from about 

 half of the 1^500 blueback spawners for artificial hatching and 

 rearing at the Leavenworth hatchery of the Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 This operation since has been an annual procedure, a portion of the 

 run being allowed to spawn naturallyo In 1948 a total of 4,255 

 blueback were taken for hatchery purposes, 1,945 spawning fish 

 were counted above the racks, and 500~1,000 were estimated to have 

 spawned belowo Kokanee also spawn in the lower section of the rivero 

 A few Chinook sflrlmon and steelhead trout have been observed, as 

 well as a small resident trout populationo 



None of the tributaries to the Little Wenatchee River are of 

 much possible value to salmono 



Rainy Creek, entering 7 l/2 miles above the mouth and above 

 the lower falls is passable, but Ls almost a continuous series of 

 low cascades, and therefore lacks spawning area. All other -tri-bu 

 taries are so steep that salmon could ascend them only for very 

 short distances o 



12Jo(2)o White River o--- (Surveyed at various times, 1935- 

 1947 J Burrows, Whiteleather, Shuman, and members of the Grand 

 Coulee project and North Pacific staffs o) 



Enters Lake Wenatchee through a swamp area about 1/2 mile 

 north of the mouth of the Little Wenatchee River. The stream 

 is 27 miles long,, of which the lower 13 miles were surveyed up 

 to an impassable 25 foot falls <, The surrounding foothills and 

 valley slopes of the watershed are heavily covered by conifer 

 forests. The stream channel is about 100 feet wide in the lower 

 section, and the discharge ranges from less than 100 c.f.s. to 

 more than 1,000 cofoSo, normally being somewhat greater than 

 that of the Little Wenatchee o In the lower 2 miles of swamp 

 area the stream bed is covered with a thick layer of glacial 

 silt. In the next 8 miles to the confluence with the North 

 Fork the gradient gradually increases, and there are extensive 

 spawning areas especially suited to blueback salmon because of 

 the fine pea gravelo Above the North Fork the spavming rubble 

 is larger and the gradient becomes steeper. However, some 



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