As you know, I’ve been working with KDH Environmental over the past several weeks to help restore gravel spawning beds for chinook salmon on the Stanislaus River. Things have been going exceptionally well and the 2-mile stretch of river we’ve been on has undergone an amazing transformation. We’re getting close to being finished…here’s a little sneak peak at some of the stuff we’ve been up to.
Here’s a picture of a side channel on the backside of an island before we started cleaning it up:
And here’s what it’s looking like now:
This is the mouth of the side channel before we went to town on it; it was filled with silt and blocked with a logjam:
And here’s how she’s looking now…
We should complete the project just as first pods of king salmon move into the river…it’s going to be extremely exciting to see how the fish like their new home!
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