• Butano Creek Backfield Floodplain and Streamflow Enhancement Project

  This project by San Mateo Resource Conservation District is located along Butano Creek in Pescadero, on an actively farmed property owned by the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST). Beneficial for both conservation and agriculture, this project is part of a larger, coordinated effort to improve flow, connectivity, and both instream and floodplain habitat conditions within…

• Fish Passage Improvement on Crossing 9, Quiota Creek

  The project included removing a concrete low-flow Arizona crossing, installing a new bottomless-arched culvert, grading the resulting creek bed to improve fish passage conditions for both juveniles and adults and to provide a more natural channel bed gradient under the bridge, placing rock weirs and a roughened channel to create hydraulic diversity and maintain channel…

• Kern Plateau Meadow Restoration Project

  ​​The purpose of this project is to restore 13 degraded headwater stream-meadow complexes located on the Kern Plateau region of the Inyo National Forest in the Mount Whitney Ranger District, in Inyo and Tulare counties, utilizing low-tech process-based restoration (LTPBR) techniques as defined by Wheaton et al. 2019. 

• Kopta Slough Multi-Benefit Project

  This project, led by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), is located on the Sacramento River near the City of Corning and the Town of Vina in Tehama County. The confluence of Deer Creek is located on the left bank of this reach of the river. The Woodson Bridge State Recreation Area, Kopta Slough,…

• Lower Sugar Creek Beaver Dam Analogue Project

  In 2014, Scott River Watershed Council (SRWC), Dr. Michael Pollock from NOAA, Mr. Mark Cookson from USFWS, and Scott Valley landowners began a project that would install California’s first beaver dam analogue (BDA) and change the course of history for the Scott River Coho Salmon population. The initial three structures were built in 2014 with additional…

• Ormond Beach Restoration and Public Access Project 

  The project is located within the City of Oxnard, along a section of the coast extending from Port Hueneme south to the northwestern boundary of Point Mugu Naval Air Station. The Project area includes several parcels owned and managed by the State Coastal Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, and the City of Oxnard. 

• San Geronimo Creek Habitat Enhancement Project

  This project was designed to create winter and summer rearing habitat for salmonids throughout a 370 Linear Feet reach of San Geronimo Creek by installing a total of 18 pieces of large wood anchored with boulders that will aid in the production of an area of still water during high flows for salmon to eddy…