Thank you to all of our project applicants! Out of many worthy projects Which applied for funding from the California fish passage forum for 2025, our review panel of fish passage experts have selected two projects to receive funding in FY25.
The Forum funding opportunity will re-open in Fall 2026 for the FY27 Funding Year. Click here to learn more about our annual opportunity.
The Forum will award an estimated $250,000-$350,000 in FY2027 for projects that advance its mission. This amount is based on previous funding received from the NFHP for this purpose. The exact amount of funding available varies annually and is not known currently. To fund a diverse portfolio of projects, strong project proposals that request less than $100,000 are preferred. However, proposals of particular merit may be funded at a higher level, at the Forums discretion.
FY 2025 Funded Projects
Adobe Creek Barrier Assessment, Design, and Permitting-Sonoma County Public Infrastructure
This project will develop a preliminary design for a new bridge at Old Adobe Road and Adobe Creek. Adobe Creek provides some of the highest quality riparian habitat in the watershed, supports the Federally listed Central California Coast steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). The benefits of this project include: improving stream habitat and grade, reducing fish stranding, and allowing the passage of steelhead and other native anadromous and resident fishes to upstream habitat in Adobe Creek.
Dutch Bill Creek Market Street Weir Repair Fish Passage Improvement Project-Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District
This project will develop an engineered design and prepare permit applications for the repair a barrier at the former Dutch Bill Creek Barrier Elimination Project site constructed in 2009 in the Russian River watershed in Sonoma County, California. The goal is to reduce the jump height and improve fish passage to upstream critical habitat for endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout.