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The Stanislaus River Restoration Plan Information Site.
Welcome To The California Rivers Restoration Fund Web Site.

What's New?

The CRRF has some exciting new programs that are currently being implemented in the San Joaquin and Sacramento River systems for 2004. We are beginning a restoration project to create over 20 new spawning and juvenile rearing sites for steelhead and Chinook salmon in a dredged channel about seven miles downstream from Goodwin Dam on the Lower Stanisluas River. The CRRF is also working with the resource agencies on the Lower Tuolumne, Merced, and Yuba rivers to achieve flows and restoration that protect and enhance habitats for steelhead as well as spring-run and fall-run Chinook salmon. In addition, we are developing a restoration plan for the Lower Stanislaus River and assisting with another plan for the lower Tuolumne River on behalf of the resource agencies, irrigation districts, and local citizenry. The CRRF biologists have also been working very closely with stakeholders, to enhance the current record of information for our native salmon and steelhead fisheries. In this effort, The CRRF has taken the initiative to create and perform the following studies.

Photo Left (Life time member Bill Moison holding a beautiful hen steelhead, on one of the riffles that was built by the staff of CRRF on the Lower Stanislaus River and is maintained and monitored by our organization.)

1.We have created an O. Mykiss habitat map for the Lower Tuolumne River, which highlights areas of crucial steelhead and rainbow trout habitat, so that projects created to enhance Chinook spawning, do not negatively affect our precious steelhead fishery.
2. Have worked closely with resource agencies and other non-profit groups, to gather the crucial science we need to protect our native steelhead in the San Joaquin basin.
3 . Have conducted hook and line surveys to gather tissue samples from steelhead in the San Joaquin basin to help determine the anadromus origin of these fish so that we can better protect them.
4. Began a mark re-capture program to create a population estimate for our steelhead fisheries in the San Joaquin basin.
"5. Have heavily contributed to a restoration plan for the Lower Tuolumne river and given the only steelhead based information to that plan, so future projects create habitat for all anadromus fish in the river.
6. We have continued to sit in technical forums, consulting with these groups and lending our knowledge and expertise to help to guide future projects during the conception and planning phases of the work.

These are just a few examples of the meaningful programs we are currently working on. Please also take a look at our list of accomplishments to see the effort CRRF has made to protect our rivers.


We hope you enjoy your tour of our site!

For more information, or to contact us please call (209) 532-7146 or email us at steve@mlode.com. You may also send any information to us at P. O. Box 236 Soulsbyville, Ca. 95372

"Many dream of great successes, the persistent achieve them"... (Confucius)
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