Salmon in the Trees

Beginning in the Ellsworth Creek Preserve in Willapa Bay, Washington in 2004, Jeff created an outdoor installation of 50 stainless steel and aluminum floating salmon sculptures along a popular wildlife viewing area near the coast. The project in Willapa Bay showed the partial life cycle of the local chum salmon and celebrated their glorious return to the preserve after modification to a culvert below Highway 101.

Continuing to tell the harrowing life story of the Northwest native salmon along the coastal United States, Jeff created five more stainless-steel metal coho salmon with three adult spawning stages for the City of Seaside, Oregon. The trail where the outdoor sculpture is located is known as the Mill Ponds Natural History Park along the Neawanna Creek/Seaside Estuary, a protected wildlife area for locals and tourists to visit.