Greene and Sweetwater Habitat Enhancement Project

Greene and Sweetwater Habitat Enhancement Project

This Project will construct in-channel and off-channel habitat features to improve the quantity and quality of accessible habitat for salmonids. Project elements are designed to build on existing habitat with limited accessibility and prioritize connectivity of habitat features throughout varying flow levels. Specific project objectives are to: 1) Create side channels at varying elevations to connect a range of winter flows from Green Valley Creek to off-channel wetlands for salmonid utilization; providing refugia and rearing habitat for juvenile salmonids and hydrologically connected migration corridors for out-migrating salmonids; 2) Improve edge habitat and in-channel rearing and refuge habitat for juvenile salmonids over a range of winter flows by creating inset floodplains, alcoves and tree islands, and installing in-channel log structures to improve channel and hydrologic complexity; 3) Revegetate disturbed areas with a mix of herbaceous and woody native species to increase the dominance of native plant species and create diverse habitat for juvenile fish, freshwater shrimp and other native aquatic organisms, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals; 4) Maintain and/or improve habitat for California freshwater shrimp and other native aquatic organisms, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals by removing nonnative vegetation, planting native riparian and wetland species, and including small woody debris in log structures; and 5) Expand the extent of seasonal herbaceous wetland throughout the side channels and alcoves.

Sebastopol

Sonoma

Countywide