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![Drawing of a brown duck with a green patch above its eye sitting in greenish water.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-04/0003_Group4_AmericanWigeon_Lin_1.jpg?h=9e4c2622&itok=4aIrPG4z)
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History and Culture
![A man in a wheelchair and wearing a hoodie fishing from a platform overhanging a river.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-06/Wayne-Hatcher-fishing-off-handi-ramp-2-leavenworth-national-fish-hatchery.jpg?h=cccb4830&itok=G2eeAc8a)
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History and Culture
![A smiling, bearded man in a ballcap holds up a small carved salmon](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-05/Andy-Jaynes-Friends-of-NW-Hatcheries-receives-award-Julia-Pinnix-2022-5-9.jpg?h=436e712b&itok=TqRwRh3j)
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![A group of people work in a garden with mountains and blue sky with clouds in the background](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-05/pollinator-garden-volunteers-at-work-2022-5-leavenworth-national-fish-hatchery-julia-pinnix.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=hVa6o-RS)
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![2 men in t-shirts peer into a rectangular cage as they slide it into the back of a pickup, with a beaver inside the cage.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-03/beaver-loaded-for-transport-leavenworth-national-fish-hatchery-mid-columbia-fish-and-wildlife%3Dconservation-office-julia-pinnix.jpg?h=0d915b3a&itok=vpyIV5Zw)
Habitat Restoration
![A man with a large tribal tattoo on his right upper arm reaches into a fishing hoop net, his face hidden by a large straw hat.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2021-11/tribal-man-nets-salmon-for-surplus-leavenworth-national-fish-hatchery-julia-pinnix.jpg?h=a5eb5da0&itok=D3Uy-wvS)
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![In the foreground, a bush blooms with white flowers. Mid-ground, a blue bird bath stands inside a garden surrounded by wooden fencing. In the background, a gazebo is near the garden, and the hatchery main building is beyond.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2021-09/pollinator-garden-at-leavenworth-national-fish-hatchery-julia-pinnix.jpg?h=2e08d46a&itok=heRcJLvq)
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![Black and white photo of a man bent over, pressing milt from a male salmon into a metal bucket. 5 or 6 other fish lie on boards on the ground behind him.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2021-09/fertilizing-salmon-eggs-leavenworth-national-fish-hatchery-1940-8-22.jpg?h=dae4909d&itok=p0gwmy7A)
History and Culture
![Construction of the Diversion Channel spillway outlet at Leavenworth NFH in 1939.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2021-04/Outlet-channel-spillway-construction-1939-Leavenworth-NFH-USFWS.jpg?h=0625e73c&itok=r0Kh5Xtm)
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![A USFWS volunteer drives a golf cart carrying fertilized spring Chinook salmon eggs from the spawning area to the nursery.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2021-04/volunteer-spawning-egg-transport-Leavenworth-NFH-Marjie-Lodwick-USFWS.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=qoPEmr73)
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