Lead Agency: North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board

Project Proponent: The Nature Conservancy

The Garcia River Estuary Enhancement Project was the first project to receive a SERP Concurrence from CDFW, and also benefited from receiving a Restoration Management Permit (RMP) to authorize take of coho salmon associated with restoration actions. This Project is located within the Garcia River watershed, a tributary to the Pacific Ocean in southwest Mendocino County. The Project is designed to benefit estuarine habitat by restoring and enhancing juvenile salmonid habitat for coho salmon, Chinook salmon, and steelhead. The Project created over two acres of newly accessible floodplain habitat and 18 large wood structures, constructed with nearly 350 large redwood and Douglas fir logs and rootwads, spatially distributed across a half-mile reach of the estuary.

Lead Agency: Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego County

Project Proponent: Volcan Mountain Foundation

The Volcan Mountain Nature Center Forest Resilience Project is located on the Volcan Mountain Foundation Nature Center in eastern San Diego County, approximately three miles north of the town of Julian. The Project goal is to restore forest habitat and re-create more natural, lower severity fire regimes to improve forest resilience. Project activities include removal of ladder fuels, dead trees, and other combustible materials to reduce the potential severity of wildfires within three mixed conifer/hardwood montane forest groves. The Project will also remove encroaching chaparral vegetation followed by reforestation with native conifer and hardwood tree species. Further reforestation will occur on approximately 40 acres with native conifer and hardwood tree species to expand montane forest habitat. The Project is expected to enhance 388 acres of natural habitat.    

Lead Agency: State Water Resources Control Board

Project Proponent: Pacific Gas & Electric Company

The Battle Creek Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project Phase 2 No Regrets is located at South Fork Battle Creek in Shasta and Tehama Counties. The Project goal is to remove four dams and one canal along South Fork Battle Creek to provide unimpaired access to approximately 42 miles of habitat in Battle Creek and an additional 6 miles of habitat in its tributaries to native fish and wildlife. Project activities include removal of the Coleman Diversion Dam, Lower Ripley Creek Feeder Diversion Dam, Soap Creek Feeder Diversion Dam, South Diversion Dam, and the South Canal.

Capinero Creek Restoration Project

Lead Agency: Pixley Irrigation District

Project Proponent: Tule Basin Land and Water Conservation Trust

The Capinero Creek Restoration Project is located within the San Joaquin Valley on previously farmed land adjacent to the Pixley National Wildlife Refuge, in Tulare County. Historically, the area consisted of upland and alkali desert scrub habitat. By the 1990s, the entire Project site was converted into lands managed for dairy farming and crop cultivation. The 549-acre Project includes a three phased approach to restore the site, degraded from agriculture practices, back to alkali desert scrub vegetative communities while also expecting to improve groundwater sustainability. Once completed the Project would be the first farmland taken out of production in the San Joaquin Valley that will be restored to wildlife habitat to conserve groundwater under Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.