Multiple Humboldt and Mendocino County Projects to Protect Salmonid Habitat Get Grants From CDFW
![running water creek [CDFW]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/unnamed-9.jpg)
Press release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW):
ADA_FRGP 2021 Projects Approved for FundingThe California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) today announced the selection of 15 projects that will receive funding for the restoration, enhancement and protection of anadromous salmonid habitat in California watersheds.
The grants, which total $9.7 million, were awarded through CDFW’s Fisheries Restoration Grant Program (FRGP). FRGP was first established in 1981 and since 2000, has included funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, established by Congress to reverse the declines of Pacific salmon and steelhead throughout California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska.
“As 2021 draws to an end, while we reflect upon prolonged drought and seasonal wildfires, we must also maintain our focus on the importance of the work California restoration practitioners undertake,” CDFW Director Charlton H. Bonham said. “These awarded projects represent a new year of extraordinary efforts to address the challenges to California’s ecosystems through the hard work, dedication and passion of those Californians working to restore habitat for these iconic species.”
In response to the 2021 Fisheries Habitat Restoration Grant Solicitation, CDFW received 61 proposals requesting more than $35.9 million in funding. As a competitive grant program, proposals underwent a rigorous technical review that included CDFW and NOAA scientists.
The 15 approved projects will further the objectives of state and federal fisheries recovery plans, including removing barriers to fish migration, restoring riparian habitat, recovering wildfire impacts detrimental to rivers and creating a more resilient and sustainably managed water resources system (e.g., water supply, water quality and habitat) that can better withstand drought conditions. These projects further the goals of California’s Water Action Plan and CDFW’s State Wildlife Action Plan, as well as addressing limiting factors specified in state and federal recovery plans.
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Can you post page two or show where we can look it up?
found it
FRGP 2021 Projects Approved for Funding List (ca.gov)
… or you could have just clicked on the down arrow located at the bottom left (to the left of “Page 1/2”) of the chart that Kym provided. 🤦♂️
The photo above appears to be perfect fish habitat. It has pooling for resting, cover for shade and protection from fish eating birds, hiding places for the young fish to hide from ducks and otters. The log is an easy jump for a fish.
I hope that this is not an example of what they are going to “restore”.
Awesome analysis, couldn’t agree more with you. This is actually a habitat feature that was installed in 2020 on a Mendocino Coast stream. This photo could have used a short description. It is an example of what is being designed and built.
I do believe that is a restored stream and a perfect example of what it’s supposed to look like. You’re correct Ernie
Yeah, wait until the fish have been doomed to the brink of extinction before you get off your dead ass to do something worthwhile. Goddamn shameful!
What have you done lately to help this cause? If you aren’t able to volunteer your time and energy you can always give restoration groups donations of $.
Many groups have been working very hard for many years to prevent fish extinction. There are many details to follow as well as battles to fight re: permit requirements, time constraints, etc.
Pick your favorite group and give them a nice big donation for 2022!
Oh maybe my extorted cdfw money for my cannabis permit can count? The Attachment E fee is $5k. Yes restoration grants are good, but it’s not gonna change the decline of fish. Sorry but this is just green washing and a way to give some people temp jobs working in nature.
If it rains… there will be fish. If it doesn’t rain… good luck.
Even during and 3-5yrs after good rain years there are not always “good” fish years.
It’s a good bit more of a complex issue than that guy
I agree with you. If everyone is so concerned about the fish habitat but cannot physically help, please donate a little money towards this most worthy cause. They should have been working on cleaning up streams and rivers a long time ago before it got to this state. We need to leave clean streams and rivers for our younger generation to fish and enjoy!
I am of the belief that you can’t fix something as complex as fish habitat with excavators and tree stumps and by throwing money at it. I know it’s not a popular opinion, but it’s what I have found to be true. The problem is too complex, or simple: overpopulation.
The problem started years ago because creek beds made natural skid roads for the old loggers but made a lot of creeks straight. Fish can’t handle straight streams.
Can anyone tell me, why in the Sam Hell, the Garberville Sanitary District (GSD) Board Chair Doug Bryan is advocating and wanting GSD to find a way to re-install the Benbow Dam on the South Fork Eel?
As crazy as it sounds, at the GSD BOD meeting on December 21, 2021, he is asking GSD staff to contact Congressman Jared Huffman and other State Assembly Representatives and find out if there is support for re-installing the Dam or any state or federal funding for building another Dam at Benbow.
Here is a little of what GSD Board Chair Bryan stated during that agenda item at the meeting, addressing the public:
“So, from my perspective, an ability to fight fire has been severely reduced by not having a consistent water source to pull from. Right, so fighting fires, one element. Second element, is for the existence of our town. When we go into water ration and water restriction, that reduces commerce. And it reduces people’s desire to live in this area, which then is a vicious, downward cycle for the existence of this town. Third and equally as important, is fish and wildlife. When we’ve got low flows, the fish don’t want to come upstream.
They’ve proven this up on the Klamath where they’re releasing water down the Trinity and they’re not having massive die-offs at the mouth of the river anymore because of getting this flush of nice, cold water right when the fish are stacking up and wanting to come upstream. And so we saw that in this year as an example. The waters came up and then they went right back down. And it got way down until this last rain event, I mean, I was looking at it. It was like 70cfs, 50cfs, something like that, and we had just had feet or inches, and many acre feet could have been, you know, retained, and then that dam could have been slowly releasing that water out, possibly at a good enough rate to where the fish would want to go ahead and push up. They could have been spawning. They could have been doing their thing in between the rain events because you then get another giant rain event and the eggs can get washed out, the young spawn, the little salmon might not be strong enough to survive and they might get flushed out of the system. And so, by controlling the flood waters, you can help wildlife.
So you’ve got like three different things that could be accomplished by having a consistent water source. And so, not having a dam, and this has been in our data, ever since that dam got removed, we’ve gone into this mode of needing to, like, conserve water in this freak-out way. We’re going down to 10cfs and it’s not good for wildlife. And fire is not good for wildlife if we can’t put fires out, the force is done.”
I guess what Board Chair Bryan does not understand, was the Benbow Dam was a seasonal summer Dam, from June 1st until September 1st and was not designed to release water downstream. Its sad that people at a public agency, think more about “commerce“, than about other species that cannot speak for themselves and home to ESU, ESA and EFH in a listed Wild & Scenic River, both state and federal!
https://kymkemp.com/2016/08/27/update-on-the-benbow-dam-removal-project/
Oh ya. And shut the board of supervisors down. Selling more and more pop permits is ridiculous right now. Between the drought and the glut their the only ones making $$$ It’s complete nonsense.