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The Forum is a collaborative partnership formed to protect and revitalize anadromous fish populations in California by promoting collaboration among public and private sectors for fish passage improvement projects and programs.

The M-G weir repair project on the Shasta River, Siskiyou County, CA

Forum Funded Restoration Projects

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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. Explore projects by year funded, county, major river system, or by the lead partner.

Project Stats

70+ Barrier removals

Culvert replacements, dam removals,  technical fishway installations, and channel augmentations.

69 habitat enhancements 

Improvements to floodplain and channel complexity,  large woody debris installation, and native plantings. 

295 miles conserved

Riparian acres improved, reconnected, or conserved.

3,026 people engaged

Program mangers, funders, engineers, scientists, restoration practitioners, and community members engaged.

2,249 organizations engaged

Funding agencies, permitting agencies, restoration conservation districts, and nonprofits engaged.

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 Department of Public Works Humboldt County RCD Jenny Creek Klamath River Mendocino County Merced County Mid Klamath Watershed Council Mormon Slough NOAA Fisheries Outlet Creek 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 South Coast Habitat Restoration Stockton East Water District Stotenburg Creek The Watershed Project Trinity County Trinity River Trout Unlimited USDA Forest Service US Fish and Wildlife Service Van Duzen River Weaver Creek Wildcat Creek Yager Creek

  • Central California Traction Railroad Bridge Fish Passage Improvement Project

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    This project improved fish passage at the Central California Traction Railroad Crossing on the Stockton Diverting Canal, within the lower Calaveras River system near Stockton in San Joaquin County. A second flume, notches, and a downstream roughened rock ramp were installed to provide passage at flows between 30 and 1,000 cfs. The project opened approximately 13.4 miles of stream to fall-run Chinook salmon and Central Valley steelhead — a core recovery population in the Southern Sierra and San Joaquin watershed. Location: The Central California Traction Railroad Crossing is located on the Stockton Diverting Canal,a channel within the lower Calaveras River…

  • 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. Location: Pescadero Creek runs through Memorial County Park, draining an 80 square mile watershed from the Santa Cruz Mountains, before emptying…

  • 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.

  • Kelly Gulch Fish Passage Project

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    This project replaced an undersized culvert on Forest Service Road 40N39 on Kelly Gulch, a tributary to the North Fork Salmon River within the Klamath National Forest in Siskiyou County, with a bottomless arch culvert allowing natural passage of aquatic organisms, water, sediment, and debris. The culvert was one of the only remaining barriers to anadromous fish on the Klamath National Forest Transportation System, benefiting SONCC coho salmon, steelhead trout, and potentially Pacific lamprey.