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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.

  • 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 salmon, and steelhead.

  • 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 supported an ecological engineering assessment of existing design drawings and extensive community outreach, including K-12 education programming and tribal consultation, with the ultimate goal of restoring access to 1.125 miles of spawning and rearing habitat and reconnecting the watershed to San Pablo Bay.

  • 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 to San Pablo Bay, and engaged the surrounding disadvantaged community through K-12 educational programming, a children’s book, and community meetings. This is a multi-phase project, with the Forum supporting Phases 1,2 and 3. Location: Wildcat Creek at the Lower Wildcat Creek Flood Control Channel, in…

  • 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 fall migration periods. Location: Mainstem Klamath River tributaries from Weitchpec, Humboldt County (river mile ~143) upstream to Cottonwood Creek, Siskiyou County — a reach spanning portions of Humboldt and Siskiyou Counties on and adjacent to the Klamath National Forest. Work focused on the first 1,000…

  • Mid Klamath Fish Passage Improvement Project

    This ongoing annual project deploys trained crews each summer to assess and manually treat fish passage barriers at the mouths of up to 72 priority tributaries to the Klamath, Salmon, and Lower Scott Rivers across Humboldt and Siskiyou Counties. Barriers including debris jams, boulder cascades, and perched alluvial deltas are modified using hand tools to create step-pool fishways, and brush bundles installed to enhance thermal refugia. The project benefits coho salmon, Chinook salmon, and steelhead, with over 80% of treated sites showing documented increases in salmonid presence post-treatment by 2022.