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2011-1103 Clarks Creek Headwaters

Two teenage boys facing each other. The boy on the left wears a navy blue hoodie. He is reaching in to a flat mesh bait bag to pull out or put in a rhododendron leaf. The boy on the right is wearing a gray hoodie with white stripes and the hood up. He is holding a rhododendron leaf and a wet paper towel.
A boy in a gray hoodie with thin white strips standing on the bank of a creek. on the bank at the middle left and right of the frame are pieces of large decaying log. The piece on the right is leaning up against a small tree with a piece of pink plastic flagging tied to one of its branches. Hanging from another branch is a flat mesh bait bag with rhododendron leaves in it.
Two people dressed warmly. The person on the left is wearing a brown carhartt jacket and a blue striped beanie. They are holding a flat mesh bait bag on their thigh as they insert a rhododendron leaf into one of the pockets that already contains a leaf and the person on the right watches.
A teenaged boy in a gray hoodie with thin white stripes is standing in the water a few feet from a creek bank. The water goes up to his knees and his jeans are wet up to just below the hips. A bait bag hangs from a tree into the water in front of him.

Site #1103

Clarks Creek, near fish hatchery

This site also used for Pierce College “Bait in a Bottle” experiment.

Elevation 48 ft

Stream order 1 (pdf)

City of Puyallup Stormwater Management Action Plan (2023)

land use map for site 1103 totaling 259 hectares. 141.36 hectares at this site are urban, indicated as red on the map, and 117.08 are woodland, indicated by green. A blue cross marks the testing site.
A smaller version of the previous map with a red circle indicating the full extent of the site. A smaller blue circle is around a green arrow (centered) and a red location marker.

Results from 2011 monitoring

a circle graph without numbers to express the percentages, indicating the species results from site 1103 Clarks Creek upstream. The largest amount of results at nearly half was Pythium new sp 2. The next largest result was Phytophthora gonapodyides. The remaining six species have approximately the same amount. Phytophthora taxon Pg chlamydo, Phytophthora taxon oaksoil, Phytopthora siskiyouensis, Phytopythium new spo 1, Pythium new sp 1, and Elognisporangium anandrum.
Water temperature results for site 1103 Clarks Creek upstream. It started at 9C on 16 March. Between 23 March and 13 April it grew to 10C, where it remained through 25 May.

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Last updated 9/24/2025