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  • Wildcat Creek Fish Passage & Community Engagement Project (Phase 3)

    This project is retrofitting a chronically clogged fish ladder and sediment basin on lower Wildcat Creek in unincorporated North Richmond and the cities of Richmond and San Pablo, Contra Costa County, to restore passage for threatened Central California Coast steelhead. The broader effort also adds mini-parks, a community trail, K-12 education, citizen-science water quality monitoring, green-jobs workforce training, and creek cleanups benefiting this disadvantaged urban watershed.

  • Weaver Basin Fish Passage Assessments

    This project assessed 37 unassessed or unknown-status fish passage barriers in the Weaver Creek watershed, a headwater tributary to the Trinity River near Weaverville in Trinity County, to provide baseline data for future fish passage remediation projects benefiting Coho salmon, steelhead, Chinook salmon, and Pacific lamprey, while engaging local students and tribal partners in the assessment process.

  • Jenny Creek Man-made Barrier Removal

    This project removed an abandoned man-made concrete barrier on Jenny Creek, the largest tributary in the Klamath River’s hydroelectric reach in Siskiyou County, timed to coincide with the removal of Iron Gate Dam in 2024, to restore access for Coho salmon, Chinook salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey to 1.9 miles of previously blocked habitat.

  • Designing for Sturgeon Passage in the San Joaquin River at the Eastside Bypass Control Structure (Phase 2)

    This project deployed an acoustic telemetry array to track White Sturgeon movement and habitat use in the San Joaquin River Restoration Area downstream of the Eastside Bypass Control Structure in Merced County, in order to inform fish passage design improvements to that structure for the benefit of White Sturgeon, Green Sturgeon, and spring-run Chinook salmon.