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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.

Wild for Wildflowers: Exploring the Spring Wonders of the Sierra Foothills
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Wild for Wildflowers: Exploring the Spring Wonders of the Sierra Foothills

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Now that spring has begun we’ve been finding some of our favorite common wildflowers popping up alongside trails and in meadows. They are also starting to blanket hillsides in beautiful shades of orange, yellow, and purple. This is why we want to share proper picture-taking etiquette and introduce some of our favorite common wildflowers that are sometimes overlooked.

Large-scale, Multi-benefit Halwood Side Channel and Floodplain Restoration Project Transforms Part of the Lower Yuba River

Large-scale, Multi-benefit Halwood Side Channel and Floodplain Restoration Project Transforms Part of the Lower Yuba River

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After five years of construction, a 157-acre, multi-benefit habitat restoration project that directly benefits native fish like salmon and steelhead in the lower Yuba River is complete.

The Hallwood Side Channel and Floodplain Restoration Project includes nearly two miles of restored side channels and alcoves and more than six miles of seasonally flooded side channels – areas that are essential for fish where they can hide from predators, rest, eat and grow. Recent fish surveys show that steelhead and salmon are already using the new habitat.

Upper Long Bar Restoration Project Public Outreach

Upper Long Bar Restoration Project Public Outreach

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On Thursday, November 2, 2023, representatives from SYRCL, Cramer Fish Sciences, and cbec led a public outreach meeting at the Upper Long Bar Restoration Project, outlining for those in attendance the history of the project, a general overview of the pre-project monitoring and what the project will encompass, and the desired outcomes of the finished project.