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Category: Barrier Removal

  • 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. Project…

  • North Fork Ryan Fish Passage Design Project

    This project produced engineering designs to replace a blown-out culvert and rock weir barrier on North Fork Ryan Creek — a tributary to Outlet Creek and the Eel River — near Willits in Mendocino County, to restore fish passage for Coho salmon and steelhead trout at all life stages. Location: North Fork Ryan Creek, a…

  • Mid-Klamath Tributary Fish Passage Improvement Project

    This ongoing annual project deploys field crews equipped with hand tools to assess and manually treat seasonal low-flow barriers on 30 to 40 tributaries of the Klamath and Salmon Rivers in Siskiyou and Humboldt counties, opening access to approximately 40 miles of cold-water refugia and spawning habitat each summer and fall for Chinook salmon, coho…

  • Little Case Creek Fish Passage Project

    This project replaced two culverted road crossings on Little Case Creek — a tributary of Tenmile Creek in Laytonville, Mendocino County — with bridges to open up to one mile of upstream spawning and rearing habitat for endangered Central California Coast coho salmon and steelhead. Forum funding covered the permitting, cultural and biological surveys, and…

  • Wildcat Creek Fish Passage & Community Engagement Project (Phase 2)

    This project advanced design and community engagement for the replacement of a failing fish ladder on lower Wildcat Creek in unincorporated North Richmond, Contra Costa County — the most downstream of three significant barriers to Central California Coast steelhead migration on the creek. Phase 2 was the second of three Forum-supported phases in a multi-year…

  • Lower Stotenburg Creek Fish Passage Project

    This project removed all fish passage barriers along the downstream-most 0.6 miles of Stotenburg Creek, a small tributary of the Smith River on the coastal plain of Del Norte County, by upgrading or removing four stream crossings and adding habitat complexity features. The work benefited threatened Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast coho salmon, Central Valley steelhead,…

  • Hosie Low Water Road Crossing Fish Passage Project

    This project replaced a low-water road crossing on Mormon Slough with fish-passable box culverts to improve migration conditions for federally threatened California Central Valley steelhead and fall-run Chinook salmon. Located approximately 13 miles upstream of the Calaveras River’s confluence with the San Joaquin River in San Joaquin County, the project removed one of the worst-ranked…

  • Wildcat Creek Fish Passage and Community Engagement Project (Phase 1)

    This project conducted an ecological engineering assessment of an existing, chronically clogged fish ladder on Wildcat Creek in the unincorporated North Richmond community of Contra Costa County, developed final design plans for a replacement fish passage facility to improve steelhead access to 1.1 miles of upstream habitat in a creek flowing from the Berkeley hills…

  • Ross Valley Sanitary District Shady Lane Abandoned Sewer and Barrier Removal Project

    This project removed a concrete-encased abandoned sewer line from the bed of Ross Creek in San Anselmo, Marin County, that had been acting as a 3.5-foot weir and barrier to juvenile steelhead and smolts, restoring natural channel grade and opening 8,000 linear feet of upstream spawning and rearing habitat in a tributary to Corte Madera…

  • Mid Klamath Creek Mouth Enhancement Project

    This project annually assessed and manually improved fish passage at the mouths of up to 41 cold water tributaries along a roughly 75-mile stretch of the mid-Klamath River between Weitchpec in Humboldt County and Cottonwood Creek in Siskiyou County, enhancing thermal refugia access for coho salmon, Chinook salmon, and steelhead during critical low-flow summer and…

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