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Summary of GRCC program achievements including sediment savings, access to watercourses, and restoration plans for Upper North Fork. Collaboration with MRC and funding applications noted. Focus on sediment reduction projects and salmonid monitoring.
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Upper North Fork and Ranchland Sediment Source Inventories • Instream and Upslope Sites identified • Nearly 700,000 cubic yards sediment savings – mostly stabilizing the toe of landslides • Equals approximately 60% of human induced sediment estimated by TMDL
Project Status • Between ranches and Humboldt Redwood Company, MRC gained access to nearly 100% of class I watercourses • Applied for funding with DFG and SWRCB • We hope to perform implementation project in the Summer 2010
Benda’s North Fork Study Positive feedback: channel aggradation – undercutting slopes
More Benda Diagrams: In my opinion this is where instream restoration can be most effective
2009 GRCC implementation season plan • It is our hope to finish Blue Slide to Grindstone and Bear Creek Project Areas • Many instream sites that address lateral migration and downcutting depicted in Benda’s diagram • Also complete instream site on mainstem Mattole at Groelings (Petrolia Project Area)
2009 Implementation Planning • Project planning and landowner contact underway • Definitely some unknowns with frozen funds and cash flow issues, though GRCC program is still well funded federally • Downsizing a bit from last year • Using only 5 contractors
GRCC efforts to integrate restoration activities • We recognize the importance of collaboration with other MRC programs as well as SFI and MSG • Examples: • UNF project integrates GRCC, Riparian Ecosystem Restoration, Instream Habitat and Monitoring • Sediment reduction projects also designed for groundwater infiltration • Coordinated monitoring of salmonid presence with turbidity
We need to focus on a “limiting factors approach” for watershed prioritization