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Peninsula College students use Ennis Creek for studies
Students from Peninsula College’s Fisheries Program tested classroom theories in Ennis Creek recently, guided by program coordinator and teacher Jack Ganzhorn. Students who took turns operating fish traps, flow meters and other equipment are, from left, Julie Hendricks, Forks; Sean Oden, Bremerton; and Ryan Mairs, Graham, Wash. Students from the College’s Western Washington University Huxley Program and Port Angeles schools also use the half-mile reach of the stream for field studies, and fisheries specialists from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe keep tabs on their extensive restoration work there. A recently enlarged legal agreement between North Olympic Land Trust and property owners Jim and Robbie Mantooth permanently protects the stream and makes it available for such studies and restoration projects, as well as the Land Trust’s annual StreamFest, in early September. The stream is home to coho salmon, steelhead, cutthroat and rainbow trout. The steelhead are listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species act.