Collaborative Learning Circle Support

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Providing administrative support for a collaborative of community-based watershed and forestry organizations around northern California and southern Oregon.

Humboldt Bay Ecosystem-Based Management Advisory Committee Facilitation

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Facilitation of a team of scientists and land managers striving for creation of an interdisciplinary planning framework that links needs of people, habitats, and species to ensure a healthy future for the watershed, bay, and near-shore ecosystem.

Humboldt Bay Sediment & Habitat Improvement Project (SedSHIP)

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1) Monitoring of sediment movement in the Freshwater Creek and Elk River watershed, 2) assistance to non-corporate landowners to develop compliance plans to help them meet the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) requirements, and 3) fisheries habitat enhancement in Martin Slough (tributary to Elk River).

Mad River Watershed Management Plan

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Assessment of the overall health of the Mad River watershed relative to designated beneficial uses of and impairments to those waters; a plan developed with private and public landowners to address water quality impairments and identify watershed-wide restoration priorities.

Wood Creek Tidal Marsh Enhancement Project

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Assessment, implementation plan and implementation phases for restoration of 23 acres of brackish marsh habitat through removal of the Wood Creek tidegate. The conversion of agricultural grasslands to marshland will provide habitat for salmonids, tidewater goby, and other sensitive species and return some tidal function to former Bay lands.