Thursday September 12, 2024
USBR via Maven’s Notebook —
It’s fall on the lower American River, and that means more habitat restoration work to benefit fall-run Chinook salmon and steelhead trout is coming to fruition.
This year, the site is River Bend, just a few miles from the confluence of the American and Sacramento rivers. It’s a bucolic and peaceful environment; a place where bicyclists zoom by on the American River Bike Trail and pedestrians wander under the canopy of oaks and other native trees.
Just below the Harold Richey Memorial Bridge, crews are building habitat features that will improve the productivity of fall-run Chinook salmon and steelhead, two species that make the journey from the river to the Pacific Ocean and back again. The work, funded by the Central Valley Project Improvement Act and the Sacramento Water Forum, is a both a surgical and holistic approach to helping the fish reproduce and thrive.