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Forum Funded Restoration Projects

Since 2012, The Forum has helped support projects across California, from research, assessment, implementation and monitoring of fish passage improvement and habitat enhancement, collectively representing a significant investment in the recovery of anadromous fish populations statewide.

  • Memorial County Park Fish Passage Barriers Remediation Project

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    This project removed two fish passage barriers from Pescadero Creek at Memorial County Park near Loma Mar in San Mateo County — a remnant dam and a concrete vehicle ford — replacing them with a restored natural creek bed and v-notched weirs with arched culverts allowing passage across a wider range of flows. The project opened 62.3 miles of unimpeded spawning and rearing habitat, a high-priority recovery action for nearly extirpated Central California Coast coho salmon and steelhead trout.

  • Sharber-Peckham Fish Passage Project

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    This project replaced a failing undersized corrugated metal pipe culvert on Galaxy Drive, which had blocked Sharber-Peckham Creek — a Trinity River tributary near Salyer in Trinity County — for at least 20 years. The barrier was replaced with a 12-by-14-foot embedded multi-plate ellipse culvert designed to pass 100-year flows while maintaining a natural streambed. Sharber-Peckham Creek is the greatest single producer of coho salmon between the Hoopa reservation and the North Fork Trinity River, and post-project monitoring found 740 juvenile coho rearing upstream within one year.

  • Salt River Ecosystem Restoration Project

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    This large-scale cooperative project addressed sediment aggradation, fish passage, flooding, and drainage throughout the Salt River, a tidally influenced tributary to the Eel River Estuary near Ferndale in Humboldt County. Work included river channel restoration, estuary restoration at Riverside Ranch through levee and tidegate removal, upslope sediment reduction, and flood relief. The project benefits coho salmon, Chinook salmon, steelhead, Pacific lamprey, and tidewater goby — all ESA-listed species — and ten years of surveys have confirmed active fish use of the restored channel.

  • Pinole Creek Fish Passage Improvement Project

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    This project improved fish passage through the nearly 400-foot Caltrans I-80 double-bay box culvert on Pinole Creek in the City of Pinole, Contra Costa County. Construction added concrete notch baffles, training walls, a terminal rock pool, and a rocked downstream chute, opening nearly 7 miles of documented spawning and rearing habitat. The project benefits a federally threatened steelhead population recognized as one of very few viable runs within the San Francisco Bay Area.

Places and Partners

Use the tag cloud below to explore Forum-funded restoration projects by lead partner, river, or county!

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Big River Calaveras River California State Parks Conner Creek Contra Costa County Contra Costa RCD Del Norte County Eel River Eel River Watershed Improvement Group Five Counties Salmonid Conservation Program Gold Ridge RCD Humboldt County Humboldt County RCD Klamath River Mendocino County Merced County Mid Klamath Watershed Council Mormon Slough NOAA Fisheries Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Pescadero Creek Russian River San Joaquin County San Joaquin River San Mateo RCD Santa Barbara County Siskiyou County Smith River Sonoma County Sonoma County Public Infrastructure South Coast Habitat Restoration Stockton East Water District Stotenburg Creek The Watershed Project Trinity County Trinity County RCD Trinity River Trout Unlimited USDA Forest Service US Fish and Wildlife Service Van Duzen River Weaver Creek Western Fishes Wildcat Creek Yager Creek