Watershed Projects - Leading the Way

The past 10 years have seen the completion of numerous watershed assessments and watershed management plans throughout the Sacramento River Basin. However, the true measure of success of any management program comes from the ability to affect conditions on the ground, i.e., implement actions to protect or improve watershed resources and overall watershed condition. This section briefly describes projects from each subregion area that are examples of watershed improvement work being done by locally directed management groups; by local, state, and federal agencies; and by other public and private entities. The examples presented here include projects to benefit water quality, streamflow and aquatic habitat, fish passage, fire and fuels management, habitat for wildlife and waterfowl, eradication of invasive plant species, flood management, and watershed stewardship education. Support for this work has come from a broad spectrum of public and private sources.

Featured Projects

• Antelope Creek Watershed Stewardship — Lassen National Forest
• Battle Creek Restoration Project
• Bear Creek Meadow Restoration
• Bear River Setback Levee Project
• Cooperative Sagebrush Steppe Initiative - Butte Creek Project
• Cow Creek— Bassett Diversion Fish Passage Project
• HFQLG Forest Recovery Act, Pilot Project
• Hamilton City Levee Setback
• Iron Mountain Mine Superfund Cleanup
• Lassen Creek Stream and Meadow Restoration
• Lower American River Sunrise Side Channel Project
• Lower Clear Creek Floodway Rehabilitation
• Pit River Channel Erosion
• Red Bluff Diversion Dam Fish Passage Improvement
• Red Clover Creek Restoration Project
• Redding Allied Stream Team
• School Based Watershed Education — Upper Feather River
• Sunflower Coordinated Resource Management Program

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