Bill Kiene semi-retired
01-04-2025, 01:19 PM
Here is a note I just received from a friend who works in fisheries:
"For decades, CDFG/CDFW and its partners (NMFS, USFWS, NRCS, Resource Conservation Districts, State Parks, Counties, conservation groups, non-profit local watershed groups, private landowners, etc.) have been working to remove small barriers to steelhead and salmon migration on perhaps hundreds of coastal streams in California. Often, these are tiny little tributaries that can serve as spawning and nursery areas for wild steelhead. Old corrugated metal pipe culverts are often a barrier to upstream migration. These are often replaced with old railroad flatcars (as a bridge), and the stream reconfigured to a natural state at the site. Other projects include riparian revegetation along creeks, reducing erosion from dirt roads, and rehabilitating damaged watersheds. Much of this work happens on private lands, so is not visible to the public. Since much of the habitat for winter steelhead occurs on private land, this is very important work.
Also, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service do various stream and riparian restoration projects and watershed rehabilitation work on the federal public lands they manage.
Happy New Year"
"For decades, CDFG/CDFW and its partners (NMFS, USFWS, NRCS, Resource Conservation Districts, State Parks, Counties, conservation groups, non-profit local watershed groups, private landowners, etc.) have been working to remove small barriers to steelhead and salmon migration on perhaps hundreds of coastal streams in California. Often, these are tiny little tributaries that can serve as spawning and nursery areas for wild steelhead. Old corrugated metal pipe culverts are often a barrier to upstream migration. These are often replaced with old railroad flatcars (as a bridge), and the stream reconfigured to a natural state at the site. Other projects include riparian revegetation along creeks, reducing erosion from dirt roads, and rehabilitating damaged watersheds. Much of this work happens on private lands, so is not visible to the public. Since much of the habitat for winter steelhead occurs on private land, this is very important work.
Also, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service do various stream and riparian restoration projects and watershed rehabilitation work on the federal public lands they manage.
Happy New Year"