5C News
Newsflash! 5C on the air--Mark Lancaster & Sandra Perez in a live interview on Jefferson Public Radio's "The Jefferson Exchange".
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5C Program News
"Roads Workshop" training was held at the Trinity Lakes Resort at Cedar Stock in May 2011. Approximately 66 attendees represented road departments from all 5 counties along with tribal, state and federal agencies, private sector businesses, fisheries biologists, & local government. Specialists in the restoration field presented topics and led panel discussions and field demonstrations ...more
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Del Norte County Project News
The Peacock Creek Project improves fish passage conditions on Peacock Creek by removing the existing County culvert and replacing it with a 20-foot wide by 140-foot long pool and weir fishway partially covered by a structural steel plate arch. The structure is designed to provide upstream passage for juvenile and adult migration cutthroat and steelhead trout, and coho and chinook salmon. The project is approximately 4,000 feet upstream of the confluence with the Smith River, which is an un-dammed pristine watershed with healthy anadromous fish populations...more
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Humboldt County Project News
The fish passage work completed in Humboldt County has the highest documented returns of adult Coho and Chinook salmon and steelhead, usually within the same year as construction. Humboldt County has taken the lead among the Five Counties in removing migration barriers on County roads. The Humboldt County Department of Public Works has strived to design, fund and build 19 projects to date, opening up 30 miles of habitat since 2000...more
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Mendocino County Project News
Ryan Creek, a tributary to Outlet Creek, which is a tributary to the Eel River is one of the longest migrations made by Coho salmon in California. This project removes a concrete box culvert with a jump at the outlet that currently prevents fish from moving upstream and replaces it with a larger “stream simulation” arch structure. Fish removal at the outlet pool relocated approximately 600 Coho salmon and Steelhead trout, while no Coho were found upstream ...more
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Trinity County Project News
An existing box culvert at Conner Creek with a jump at the outlet and high velocity flows was replaced with a bridge to accommodate 100-year flows and fish migration. The upper 41% of the watershed burned in a 2008 fire, increasing risk of sediments. An upstream partial barrier will be removed in 2012. The 5C Counties use a variety of techniques to improve fish passage, storm flow, bedload and debris passage at county road crossings....more
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The 5C Enews is funded through the Fisheries Restoration Grant Program through the CA Department of Fish and Game
Image of Chinook Fry at top of webpage courtesy of USFWS & Dan Cox
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