Sean C. Morgan
A South Santiam Watershed Council project will open Ames Creek to winter steelhead and cutthroat trout.
Before Foster and Green Peter dams were constructed in the 1960s, the South Santiam River would flood the mouth of Ames Creek.
“That would allow pretty consistent fish passage into Ames Creek from the South Santiam,” said SSWC Coordinator Eric Hartstein. It still happens, but it’s not nearly as consistent as it once was.
“Occasionally, when…