Field Tour Coordinators: Michael Rogner, River Partners, Jacob Katz, Cal Trout

 

Join River Partners and Cal Trout on a tour of riparian restoration projects on lower Battle Creek. Our first stop will be an ongoing project with the Bureau of Land Management which is restoring 340 acres of mixed riparian woodland. The vegetation is being restored in advance of the next project phase which will increase the frequency and duration of floodplain inundation to benefit juveniles of all four runs of Chinook Salmon in the Sacramento watershed. This unique spot on the landscape is vital to the recovery of the federally endangered winter-run Chinook Salmon. The 2nd stop is a 20+ year old riparian restoration project on CDFW’s Battle Creek Wildlife Area in which the existing water infrastructure has been replumbed so that off channel wetlands restored in 2005 can be used to cycle critical aquatic food resources for juvenile salmon in Battle Creek in several pulses throughout the wet season. At both stops the project team and partners will talk about the past, present, and future challenges and opportunities of transformational, landscape scale restoration to benefit our native fish species.