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Hammon Bar: A Restoration Success Story
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Hammon Bar: A Restoration Success Story

Seven years ago, SYRCL began the first project in the Lower Yuba River to restore salmon habitat.

In 2011 and 2012 SYRCL planted nearly 6,500 willow and cottonwood cuttings across 5 acres to improve the floodplain habitat that fish use during high flow periods as refuge from swift moving water in the main river channel. 

One goal of this project was to increase riparian vegetation which would provide improved fish habitat through the increase in shading, cover, food availability, and creating geomorphic and hydraulic complexity on the floodplain.

Hammon Bar Restoration Project

Hammon Bar Restoration Project

In 2011 and 2012 SYRCL implemented the first habitat restoration project to ever occur on the lower Yuba River. SYRCL planted over 6,000 willow and cottonwood species to groundwater depth on Hammon Bar with the goal of creating diverse riparian vegetation that will enhance fish habitat. The success of this project inspired all the future…