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November 23, 2009
After Naches landslide, the ‘fish need help too'
By SHANNON DININNY
Associated Press Writer
Associated Press Writer
NILE — A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.
The landslide that inundated the Naches River last month created a barrier of millions of cubic yards of silt, mud and rock that slowed — and likely confused — spawning salmon and hungry trout. Then workers opened a freshly dug river channel that stranded small fish in ponds and marshes.
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