The Stanislaus River Restoration Plan Information Site
Our Executive Director Steve B. Walser with a 11 pound, winter run, hen steelhead caught on the Lower Tuolumne river in April 2003.
Mission Statement
The California Rivers
Restoration Fund is a non-profit 501(3)(c) organization that is
dedicated to finding reasonable and feasible solutions for the
management, protection, and restoration of habitat for steelhead,
salmon, and other game fish in California. We work closely with
all users and managers of California rivers, including local anglers,
sport fishing organizations, landowners, farmers, irrigation and
water districts, watershed groups, and government agencies, to
help manage and plan the recovery of our rivers for the benefit
of all stakeholders.
To
meet our goal, the California Rivers Restoration Fund will
- Promote the restoration
and sensible management of all species of anadromous fish populations
throughout California.
- Assist other watershed
groups with restoration planning.
- Develop proposals,
seek funds, and implement habitat enhancement projects.
- Facilitate information
exchange between members, landowners, irrigation and water districts,
and government agencies.
- Review and comment
on planned actions that may affect fish populations.
- Conduct studies to
provide information needed to manage and protect fish populations.
- As necessary, our attorneys
will pursue litigation to achieve our goal.
The California Rivers Restoration
Fund (CRRF) depends heavily upon the donations of its members
to help restore, protect, mediate, litigate and lobby for our
state's anadromous fisheries. Please look at our list of accomplishments,
to see what we are doing to protect our rivers.
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 Stanislaus 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.
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.
Membership to the California Rivers
Restoration Fund is open to all members of the public that endorse
our goals.
California Rivers
Restoration Fund
Steve B.
Walser (Executive Director)
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Our Executive Director Steve B. Walser with a 11 pound, winter run, hen steelhead caught on the Lower Tuolumne river in April 2003.
Mission Statement