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In November of 2022, the Lower Long Bar Restoration project was completed, just in time for a winter punctuated by nearly 15 atmospheric rivers that dumped a significant amount of water onto the watershed. As the huge Sierra snowpack began melting, even more water flowed down the Yuba. 

After many months of high water, the Lower Long Bar restoration project is starting to emerge – and it looks incredible.

The lower Yuba River once supported a thriving ecosystem with a braided channel system that fostered an abundant fish population and habitat for wildlife. During the Gold Rush era, hydraulic mining sediments flooded the ecosystem, covering habitat under tons of sediment. Later, dredger mining reworked that material and created a channelized river system with “training…