Henderson Inlet Ecosystem
right|400px Woodland and Woodard creeks along with the smaller Sleepy and Dobbs creeks flow into Henderson Bay, a (historically?) significant shellfish growing area. The inlet is home to the Noo-Seh-Chatl which occupied Tutse’tcakl village, now incorporated by the United States under the Medicine Creek Treaty into the modern Squaxin Island Tribe. The headwaters have been cleared and paved by the City of Lacey, while the areas around Henderson Inlet are a mixture of young forest and cleared rural residential land in unincorporated Thurston County. The lakes and the glacial outwash geology make the headwaters unusual. Henderson Inlet contains the Woodard-Woodland Embayment and Chapman Bay. While there are small drift cells associated with Weyer Point and the two unnamed embayments opposite. The Northeast Henderson Drift Cell extending to Johnson Point is the largest beach system in the Inlet, with the Northwest Henderson Drift Cell much smaller.
24” x 36” detailed map of wetlands, streams, watersheds, aerial photography and parcels
Relationships
- located in: Henderson Inlet Community Shellfish Farm
- related to: :file:final report.pdf
- related to: Olympia Oysters
- related to: capitol land trust
- related to: chapman bay
- related to: cherry point
- related to: city of everett
- related to: henderson inlet ecosystem
- related to: lacey
- related to: northwest fisheries science center
- related to: npdes
- related to: psrf
- related to: squalichew creek estuary
- related to: st. martins university
- related to: thurston county
- related to: tmdl
- related to: tnc
- related to: trpc
- related to: watershed hydrology
- related to: wdnr
- related to: wdoe
- related to: woods creek watershed
- related to: wsu