Spring 2022 Video Finds
CalTrout Video:
The California We Love
The California We Love
California Trout's growth and impact over the past year is impressive and we're celebrating the work and looking forward to what's to come.
Barrier Removal Project at Eagle Canyon
Battle Creek is an important watershed because of the year-round influence of coldwater springs. Historically, this habitat allows a diversity of Chinook salmon and steelhead to develop, but these species are now extirpated from the watershed and in danger of extinction because of fish passage barriers from development. CalTrout's project will be opening access to miles of spring-fed spawning and rearing habitat for Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon by removing a fish passage barrier located upstream of the Eagle Canyon Dam in the North Fork of the Battle Creek watershed. CalTrout will also expand our work on Battle Creek in an effort to remove all dams within anadromous reaches along the watershed. Learn more about CalTrout's dam removal efforts in our 2022 Dams Out Report.
CalTrout Video:
Battle Creek Barrier Removal
CalTrout Video:
Prairie Creek Restoration 2022
Prairie Creek Restoration - 2022
Success! The first year of construction for the Prairie Creek Floodplain Restoration Project at the old Orick Mill site is complete. The Yurok Tribal Construction Corporation crew just beat the big rains this fall and completed the first of five years of implementation of this large-scale restoration design. A two-acre backwater habitat was constructed along lower Prairie Creek which will provide critical rearing habitat for juvenile coho, Chinook, steelhead. A few acres of the old mill site asphalt was also removed to prepare for Save the Redwoods League’s Trail Gateway Project and a new point of public access into Redwood National and State Parks.
Bring the Salmon Home
Bring the Salmon Home captures the emotions, courage, and determination of Klamath River tribal communities as they host a 300+ mile run from ocean to headwaters to cultivate support for the biggest river restoration project in history – the removal of four Klamath River dams. The Klamath Salmon Run began in 2003, a year after dams, diversions, and drought led to a traumatizing fish kill that littered the banks of the Klamath with dead salmon for miles. Now, a historic drought grips the basin further stressing communities and fisheries. Started by local youth, the event has become an important way for the many small communities along this remote river in far northern California to find solidarity in the struggle to protect their salmon and their way of life. With regulators poised to approve dam removal plans later this year, runners are now racing into a future of hope and optimism.
Swiftwater Films Video:
Bring the Salmon Home
Cover Photo Credit: Steve David; Burney Creek above the falls
