Restoration

Upper Long Bar Restoration Pre-Project Monitoring has wrapped up

Upper Long Bar Restoration Pre-Project Monitoring has wrapped up

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In late 2021, SYRCL was awarded a grant from the Wildlife Conservation Board to begin planning, permitting, and collecting base-line data for a salmonid rearing habitat restoration project at Upper Long Bar on the lower Yuba River. The team for this project is made up of Cramer Fish Sciences, cbec eco engineering, Silica Resources Inc., Yuba Water Agency, and it is being led by SYRCL. These are the same partners who worked together to implement the Lower Long Bar project and Rose Bar projects.  

The Upper Long Bar Habitat Restoration Project’s goal is to improve the productivity, complexity, and diversity of anadromous salmonid rearing habitat within the Upper Long Bar area. These actions prioritize increased quantity and quality of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) rearing and over-summer habitat.  

Pre-project monitoring was conducted from January 2022 through December 2023 giving us two full field seasons of data.

Caught on Camera! Aspen Wildlife Game Cameras in Action

Caught on Camera! Aspen Wildlife Game Cameras in Action

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For the last three years, SYRCL has placed game cameras within aspen stands in the upper Yuba watershed. We have cameras throughout the North, Middle, and South Yuba.

These animals use the aspen for foraging or hunting grounds, bedding for young, or even as back scratching posts. In our placement of game cameras, we want to gauge the diversity of animals that utilize these aspen stands, as well as the frequency.

California’s Watershed Healing: Experts Unite to Discuss the Vital Role of Healthy Forests in Water Supply and our Communities

California’s Watershed Healing: Experts Unite to Discuss the Vital Role of Healthy Forests in Water Supply and our Communities

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Watch the recording of the special panel discussion that followed the screening of California’s Watershed Healing at SYRCL’s 2024 Wild & Scenic Film Festival. The panel was flush with the scientists and policymakers from the film and was facilitated by the SYRCL Executive Director, Dr. Aaron Zettler-Mann. The talk includes discussion about how healthy forests are crucial to California’s water supply, the challenges California faces with more extreme precipitation patterns, and opportunities for the future.