Northern Yolo Bypass Tour

Wednesday, April 4th: Creating and Managing a Seasonal Floodplain for Native Fish Habitat and Passage - A Tour of Northern Yolo Bypass

Tour Coordinators: Ted Sommer and Dennis McEwan, California Department of Water Resources

The primary floodplain of the Sacramento River is Yolo Bypass, a 56,000 acre complex that includes seasonal salmon rearing habitat in the north and the tidal wetlands of Liberty Island in the south. This tour of the region is designed to provide an introduction the ecology of the floodplain/tidal wetland complex for Chinook salmon and some of the major issues for habitat restoration.

This item originally appeared in the Jan. 2012 SRF e-Newsletter.