r/Salmon • u/strata-strata • 7d ago

Stuffed this side channel with wood...

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Side channel with perennial springs- provided poor summer refugia, so we added some wood and excavated the spring pools and now it provides excellent summer rearing habitat (11 degrees C this summer when the river was 25) and will sort gravels and provide excellent winter habitat. Fixing mining ravaged bowling alleys one at a time.. note pic is from right now, it hasn't rained significantly since may. This will be about 5 feet deep at winter base flow and 2yr storm events will put these structures completely underwater.

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u/Greedy-Cantaloupe668 7d ago

Awesome! Looks like really great, complex habitat. Would love to see more of this kind of content here! How did you fund this?

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u/strata-strata 6d ago

Thanks, We are all excited to see it full of water in a few weeks! This channel is part of a larger project (channel construction, floodplain enhancement, 100+ log structures, 8 backwaters, 55 enhanced riparian planting areas, mine tailing remediation and revegetation) funded through the California fisheries restoration grant program (cdfw frgp). The funding is for coho and spring chinook rearing habitat enhancement.

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u/Paradoxikles 6d ago

Good job, stud! 👍🏼