Restoration

Hallwood Side Channel and Floodplain Restoration Project Enters Phase Four

Hallwood Side Channel and Floodplain Restoration Project Enters Phase Four

The Hallwood Side Channel and Floodplain Restoration Project is designed to enhance the lower Yuba River ecosystem by increasing available juvenile salmon habitat to improve the natural production of Chinook salmon and Central Valley steelhead. The project will also reduce flood risk through lower water surface elevations and velocities during flood events

Taking Streamflow Measurements at the Haskell Peak Meadows

Taking Streamflow Measurements at the Haskell Peak Meadows

Meadows are important because they are nature’s “reservoirs” that slow down and clean water in the early summer and extend the time period that the water is released. Meadow stream channels typically run dry in late summer or fall when there is no more snowmelt or groundwater to continue supplying water. Thus, there is a fairly small window of streamflow monitoring that can be as short as a few weeks up to a couple of months. 

SYRCL staff headed up to the Haskell Peak meadows in early June in order to access a couple of meadows (Freeman and West Church) to measure the amount of snowmelt running through the meadow stream channels. The timing of this effort changes every year and is dependent on the amount of snow, rainfall, air temperature, and sun exposure at the meadow, as well as staff availability to go all the way out to the North Yuba upper watershed. Ideally, we aim to monitor streamflow at the intersection of the date of peak snowmelt and there being just enough access to do the monitoring itself. This would result in capturing peak stream flow.

Shape the Future of the Castle Valley Trailhead: Your Input Matters!

Shape the Future of the Castle Valley Trailhead: Your Input Matters!

Shape the Future of the Castle Valley Trailhead: Your Input Matters!
The South Yuba River Citizens League and the Tahoe National Forest are currently in the Concept Design Phase of the Castle Valley Trailhead Project and are seeking public input to help steer the designs.

In an effort to collect varied public input, we are offering two options for folks to provide input.

The first way to provide input would be to attend the Public Kick-off Meeting, taking place on June 8th, in-person, up on Donner Summit.

The second option to provide public input would be to complete an online survey.

Yuba Forest Network Travels to Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Yuba Forest Network Travels to Albuquerque, New Mexico

In 2022, The Network for Landscape Conservation awarded the Yuba Forest Network the Catalyst Fund. Since being awarded this grant, SYRCL’s Forest Conservation Project Manager, Anne Marie Holt, has been meeting with other 2022 Catalyst Fund grantees monthly to discuss different methods of facilitating a landscape conservation network and how to create a more equitable environment within these organizations.

In May, the Network for Landscape Conservation hosted a three-day retreat at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico for Catalyst Fund grantees not just from 2022, but from 2021 and 2020 as well, focused on how to be a collaborative leader and to increase the effectiveness of landscape conservation networks.