Tesoro helps at Daniel’s Creek

On June 24 a team of volunteers from Tesoro’s Kenai refinery met to carry out remediation work at a failed culvert on Daniel’s Creek in the northern Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Under the direction of Robert Ruffner, executive director of Kenai Watershed Forum, and Mike Edwards, a biologist with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the team helped restore the steam bed and bank at a former stream crossing that had failed, Tesoro Manager of External Affairs Kip Knudson told Petroleum News June 26. The work included planting willows and placing vegetation mats, Knudson said.

Tesoro also presented Kenai Watershed Forum with a check for $25,000 to help fund the Daniel’s Creek project. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had identified Daniel’s Creek restoration as a high priority in removing barriers to fish migration, Tesoro said.

—Alan Bailey