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Bug Seeding: a Possible Jump-Start to Stream Recovery Bug Seeding: A Possible Jump-start to Stream Recovery June 2020 Alternate Formats Available 206-477-4800 TTY Relay: 711 Bug Seeding: A Possible Jump-start to Stream Recovery Prepared for: Washington State Department of Ecology Submitted by: Kate Macneale King County Water and Land Resources Division Department of Natural Resources and Parks Funded in part by: WA State Department of Ecology and US Environmental Protection Agency WQNEP-2017-KCWLRD-00027 Bug Seeding: A Possible Jump-start to Stream Recovery Acknowledgements We would like to thank the many people who made this work possible. A special thanks goes to Katherine Lynch of Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), Kit Paulsen of the City of Bellevue, Chipper Maney of the Port of Seattle, Matt Goehring of King County Water and Land Resources Division (WLRD), and Connie Blumen of King County Parks and Recreation Division for their support and their help to coordinate site access. We would also like to thank Dave Beedle and Amy LaBarge of SPU for their help to facilitate access to sites in the Cedar River Watershed. In addition, we are grateful to Sarah Morley and Linda Rhodes of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center for helpful discussions about invasive species, pathogens and minimizing translocation risks. Finally, we thank the tireless WLRD field crew who helped transport literally tons of rocks and tens of thousands of invertebrates. They include Liora Llewellyn, Beth Sosik, Mark Quick, Mimi Reed, Jessica Andrade, Houston Flores, Andre Griggs, Christopher Barnes, KayLani Siplin and Stephanie Eckard. In addition to hauling rocks, Liora was especially helpful in preparing maps and coordinating logistics for the project. We would like to thank Lola Flores of the Washington State Department of Ecology for administering the grant, and the Puget Sound Partnership for facilitating the grant program. The manuscript was improved by helpful comments from Beth Sosik, Deb Lester, Dave White, Tom Ventur, Saffa Bardaro, Josh Baldi, Gary Myers, Chad Larson, and Keunyea Song. Cover photo: A stonefly, Pteronarcys princeps, found in Gold Creek a year after seeding. Photo credit: Kate Macneale This project has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement 01J18101 to King County. The contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. Citation King County. 2020. Bug Seeding: A Possible Jump-start to Stream Recovery. Prepared by Kate Macneale, Water and Land Resources Division. Seattle, Washington. King County Science and Technical Support Section i June 2020 Bug Seeding: A Possible Jump-start to Stream Recovery Table of Contents Executive Summary............................................................................................................................................. iv 1.0 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Study rationale and objectives ...................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Study area ............................................................................................................................................. 2 2.0 Seeding methods ..................................................................................................................................... 7 2.1 Basket deployment ............................................................................................................................ 7 2.2 Basket retrieval and transport ..................................................................................................... 7 3.0 Assessing diversity at recipient sites pre- and post-seeding ...............................................10 3.1 Establishing which taxa were present in the recipient streams before seeding .................................................................................................................................................10 3.2 Determining which taxa were added and which taxa persisted ....................................11 3.3 Determining if new taxa will affect B-IBI scores ..................................................................13 4.0 Results after one year post-seeding ..............................................................................................15 4.1 Gold Creek ...........................................................................................................................................15 4.2 Taylor Creek .......................................................................................................................................18 4.3 Yarrow Creek Tributary ................................................................................................................21 4.4 Miller Creek ........................................................................................................................................23 5.0 Conclusions and future recommendations .................................................................................25 6.0 References ...............................................................................................................................................27 Figures Study sites and other B-IBI sites throughout the region. B-IBI sites are categorized (very poor to excellent) based on their average score from samples collected in 2016 and 2017. ................................................................................... 4 Median B-IBI scores at sites across Puget Sound, and mean scores at recipient sites pre-seeding (2012-2018).. .......................................................................... 5 Staff deploying colonization baskets in Webster Creek on July 16, 2018. ............. 7 Staff retrieving a colonization basket from Webster Creek on September 4, 2018. ................................................................................................................................................. 8 Decision framework used to determine if taxa found in recipient streams post-seeding were new, or possibly new to a site. ........................................................12 King County Science and Technical Support Section ii June 2020 Bug Seeding: A Possible Jump-start to Stream Recovery Median B-IBI scores at sites across Puget Sound, and scores at recipient sites, pre (2012-2018) and post (2019) seeding.. .........................................................15 B-IBI scores for Gold Creek samples, collected pre-seeding from 2012 – 2018 (n=7) and one year post-seeding in 2019 (n=1). ...............................................16 Metric scores forGold Creek samples, pre-seeding (2012-2018, n=7) and post-seeding (2019; n=1). ......................................................................................................17 The B-IBI scores for Taylor Creek samples, collected pre-seeding from 2012 – 2018 (n=7) and one year post-seeding in 2019 (n =1). ..........................................19 Metric scores for Taylor Creek samples, pre-seeding (2012-2018, n=7) and post-seeding (2019) (n=1). ....................................................................................................20 The B-IBI scores for Yarrow Creek tributary samples, collected pre-seeding from 2013 – 2018 (n=3) and one year post-seeding in 2019 (n=1). .....................22 Metric scores for Yarrow Creek tributary samples, pre-seeding (2013-2018, n=3) and post-seeding (2019; n=1). ...................................................................................22 The B-IBI scores for Miller Creek samples, collected pre-seeding from 2012-2018 (n=7) and one year post-seeding in 2019 (n=1). ...................................23 Metric scores for Miller Creek samples, pre-seeding (2012-2018, n=7) and post-seeding (2019; n=1). ......................................................................................................24 Tables Study site locations...................................................................................................................... 3 Number of sites, years of record, and number of samples reviewed to identify unique taxa associated with each stream prior to seeding. ......................10 Number of taxa added to each recipient stream that would be considered new, possibly new, or not new if found in 2019, based on framework outlined in Figure 5. ..................................................................................................................13 PSSB site codes for sites included in review of taxonomic diversity in each recipient stream prior to seeding. ......................................................................................... 1 Appendices Appendix A: Site Codes Appendix B: Taxa Added to Recipient Streams and Determination of Status King County Science and Technical Support Section iii June 2020 Bug Seeding: A Possible Jump-start to Stream Recovery EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The “bug seeding” project aimed to jump-start the ecological recovery of several historically degraded King County streams by seeding them with a diverse community of macroinvertebrates – or “stream bugs” – from healthy streams. This work was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a Near Term Action to support
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