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This photograph shows fall chinook salmon stacked up Battle Creek holding in the water outflow from Coleman Hatchery. October 1996. Photo by Pat Higgins.


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Coleman Hatchery weir blocks fall chinook salmon from accessing areas above the hatchery. This helps prevent disease organisms from reaching high levels in the hatchery's water intake. A sophisticated water purification system is being installed at the hatchery so that more salmon and steelhead can be allowed upstream without impacting the hatchery. This weir will be modified as part of Battle Creek restoration. Photo by Pat Higgins.


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Holding adult fall chinook spawners in the ladder of the Coleman National Fish Hatchery in October 1996. Photo by Pat Higgins.


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Spawning fall chinook salmon just below Coleman Hatchery on lower Battle Creek. Photo by Pat Higgins. 10/96.


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Battle Creek chinook salmon dashes across riffle in broad daylight in October 1995 photo. Photo by Pat Higgins.


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This photograph shows a fall chinook salmon carcass in lower Battle Creek near the Jelly's Ferry Bridge. The clean gravels in the foreground are a recently built chinook salmon nest or redd. October 1996. Photo by Pat Higgins.


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This decayed fall chinook salmon carcass in lower Battle Creek provides nutrients to the stream and fuels the food chain which in turn supports the next generation of juvenile salmon. Photo by Pat Higgins. October 1996.