The Northern Fund has funded a portion of three-year operating expenses (2007-2010) for coho enhancement at Bakewell Lake, a project conducted by SSRAA in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service. The program will operate similarly to our Neck Lake program, but will use fall coho.  Each spring approximately 500,000 SSRAA-raised smolts will be transported to the lake, reared in net pens and released into the lake each fall.  Bakewell Lake has a fish ladder maintained and operated by the USFS; the fish ladder will permit returning adults to migrate into the lake to spawn and increase natural smolt production.

Joe Teter, U.S. Forest Service, just above the fish ladder entrance.

Bakewell Arm

U.S. Forest Service employees inspect steel grates on the fish ladder.

Badger Creek at the head of Bakewell Lake.

Bakewell Creek, just below the barrier falls and fish ladder.