Washington Department of Fishcncs 

 115 General Administration Building 



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Additional information can be sought from the VSashington River information System 

 (WARIS), a PC-based and GIS-basod database which provides information on anadromous fish 

 habitat, resident fish habitat, rare habitat, and habitat used by species of concern. This 

 database currently includes habitat information for over 2,000 river and stream reaches in the 

 State of Washington. It is being upgraded to include over 60,000 reaches. Information from this 

 database can bo acquired from the Washington [>epartment of Wildlife (GIS Section) in 

 Olympia, and may be available in the future at district offices, universities and colleges, and 

 selected libraries. 



Most stream/river reaches in the State have not been surveyed for listed or candidate 

 Threatened or Endangered fish species. The statewide distribution of bull trout is currently 

 under investigation. 



The Washington Department of Wildlife and Washington Department of Fisheries should be 

 consulted as to future listings of species or races of fish as Threatened or Endangered. 



JUSTIFICATION 



These are wetlands that contain individuals, populations, or priority habitat of State or 

 Federally listed or State or Federal candidate Threatened or Endangered fish species, or races 

 of fish, managed by the Washington Department of Wildlife or the Washington Department of 

 Fisheries. At the time of publication, no fish species or races of fish species within the State of 

 Washington are listed by the State or Federal government as Threatened or Endangered 

 species. The Olympic mud minnow and bull trout are classified as Federal candidate 

 Threatened species. No fish species or races are currently listed as State candidate Threatened 

 or Endangered. 



Only one candidate fish species, the Olympic mudminnow, is likely to be dependent upon 

 wetland habitat. This fish occurs in coastal lowlands of the western Olympic Peninsula. It is 

 found in the Queets River south to Grays Harbor, and along the north side of the Chehalis 

 River valley to the Skookumchuck River. Within this range of distribution, the Olympic 

 mudminnow is abundant in marshes and marshy streams. They are generally found in quiet 

 waters with mud substrate and dense aquatic or riparian vegetation. Bull Trout are found in 

 higher Cascade Mountain drainages in clean, cold water. 



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