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stream restoration

  • Restoration

    Creating balance on a Lower Sacramento tributary 

    paynes creek aerial view

    A new diversion facility on Paynes Creek improves fish passage for Northern California’s salmon and steelhead  Photos by Katie Falkenberg Flowing into one of Northern California’s most robust salmon rivers, the Lower Sacramento, Paynes Creek offers excellent spawning grounds for Chinook and Central Valley steelhead. But it’s also an important source of water for the people and…

  • Restoration

    Moving fish before the machinery arrives

    Stream restoration projects require a variety of tools and tactics. Sometimes you use a trowel, and sometimes a bulldozer.  In trout and salmon streams where water quality or habitat are highly degraded, you are more likely to need the latter. But when you bring in the heavy machinery, what happens to the fish living in…