A Restored Habitat Grows Up
With the summer heat coming to an end, the irrigation season is drying up. Our crews have been busy out at the Honolulu Bar restoration site this Read More…
Honolulu Bar
Flashback Friday: Zipping Through Time
California's wet winter has recently brought floodplains to the fore of many water discussions in the state. On today's Flashback Friday, we wanted to share our post Read More…
Zipping through time
In our typical fashion of experimentation, we often enjoy trying new techniques to capture photos and video in the field. Time-lapse photography is a fun method that Read More…
New Video Highlights Stanislaus River Restoration
Sometimes river habitats need a helping hand to alleviate critical bottlenecks that reduce fish survival and limit the size of fish populations. Well-designed habitat restoration projects that Read More…
Broadcasting the future
Habitat restoration is no small feat: it requires years of monitoring and constant effort to repair and maintain a healthy restored habitat. Monitoring the performance of a Read More…
Focus on fish food
When working to improve the quality of habitat on a river, it is important to understand what constitutes a successful project. It is not always safe to Read More…
Who’s at home?
Now that the hard work of creating viable side-channel habitat at Honolulu Bar has wrapped up (see Restoration Complete), it is time to see how aquatic life Read More…
Plant a tree, help a salmon
Do you like working outdoors? Want to help restore important fish habitat on the Stanislaus River? FISHBIO and River Partners are looking for volunteers to plant native Read More…
Restoration complete
[caption id="attachment_16338" align="alignnone" width="800"] Pre-construction; instream island over-run with non-native plants[/caption] [caption id="attachment_16339" align="alignnone" width="800"] Post-construction floodplain bench; juvenile salmon rearing habitat[/caption] Last week marked the end Read More…
On the (invasive species) battlefield
Whether you are restoring degraded habitat or trying to preserve natural landscapes, invasive species pose management challenges. Extricating well-established, invasive plants, as we are doing at a Read More…