Accomplishments

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Summer 2022

•  Widened Morgan Park boat ramp
•  Cleaned mud and silt accumulations from the ramp. 
• Cleared problematic boulders along the edges of the ramp.
• Re-graveled the parking lot.

This work improves ramp access and reduces hazards associated with trucks and trailers getting stuck on the ramp or going off the edge.

Winter 2024 

Installed new covered stainless steel fish cleaning station at Hee Hee Illahee Park.

 Water hook-up is coming soon. No more fish cleaning on your tailgate, park bench or the ground. A big thank you to the City of Siletz and Mayor Willie Worman for partnering with us on this project!

We hope to add these fishing cleaning stations to many other ramps along the Siletz including Old Mill site (lower town), Morgan Park, Strome Park, and Itcwhit Park    

 Summer/Fall 2019

Upgrades were needed at this location where Broodstock winter steelhead are housed before their release into the Siletz river each spring.  This project will reduce smolt mortality by providing deeper ponds and fixing cracks that allowed smolts to spill out of the ponds into the fields. It also provides hatchery fish trucks much needed access to the site. 

Several improvements were made to the Palmer Creek Acclimation Ponds. 

• Ponds dug out and cleaned up. 
• Repaired cracks in the concrete
• Graded and regraveled the road and turn around!

Thank you to Dahl’s Sanitation for the gravel donation, and Table Mountain Forestry for excavation work.

SAA is currently working with Oregon State Marine Board and City of Siletz to rebuild the Old Mill boat ramp, improve the park amenities, and 

increase access for all. The plan includes: 

• Improved, safer  parking 
• New boat ramp
• Build new restrooms,
• New picnic areas
• Fish cleaning station

This project is ongoing and will take several years from plan to completion.  

SAA is fighting for fishing rights for all Oregonians by supporting a lawsuit against ODFW that asks ODFW to follow the ORSs and state management rules currently in place.

SAA is working with Oregon State Marine Board and Lincoln County Parks for future 

upgrades to Moonshine Park. The plan includes: 

• Replacing the washed out boat ramp with a new ramp in a safer location upriver. This would provide easier river access and more parking.  
• Improvement to the gravel area.
• Additional camp sites.

SAA is currently working with Mayor Willie Worman and the town of Siletz to provide more steelhead fishing opportunities by asking ODFW to add 30,000 more winter steelhead smolts that are acclimated around the town of Siletz. This would create easier fishing access to anglers of all experience and abilities. 

SAA is in support of the work the Siletz tribe has been doing to increase broodstock winter steelhead for the Siletz.  The tribe's participation in the broodstock program has produced an extra 5000 winter steelhead smolts with plans to ramp up production over time. The SAA will continue to meet with the tribe to see how it can continue to support this program.