Crane Valley Meadow Restoration Project
Summary
SCH Number
2025110871
Public Agency
California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Redding Region 5
(RWQCB)
Document Title
Crane Valley Meadow Restoration Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
11/20/2025
Document Description
The Project proposes to conserve, restore, protect, or enhance approximately 100 acres of meadow habitat to support and assist recovery of native fish and wildlife species. The Project includes the use of low-tech, process-based restoration practices to construct three types of woody structures in degraded meadow channels: channel-spanning, bank-attached, and mid-channel. The Project includes construction of 100 channel spanning beaver dam analogs (BDA), which can be post-less or post assisted with hand placed rock, 10 bank-attached post assisted log structures (PALS), and 10 mid-channel PALS. The Project also includes selective thinning of conifers throughout the 100 acres of predicted project impacts. The felled trees will be used to create the PALS and BDAs. Willow (Salix) planting will occur along stabilized banks to support riparian recovery and bank integrity.
Contact Information
Name
Lynn Coster
Agency Name
Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Job Title
Senior Environmental Scientist
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Jesse Barnett
Agency Name
Sierra Pacific Industries
Job Title
Design Engineer
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Name
Susanna Wilson
Agency Name
Wilson Family Trust
Job Title
Trustee
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Stirling City
Counties
Butte
Regions
Northern California
Parcel #
059-100-001-000, 059-100-002-000, 059-100-017-000, 059-100-007-000
Township
24 N
Range
5 E
Section
5-8
Base
MDB&M
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
California Public Resources Code, section 21080.56 (Statutory Exemption for Restoration Projects)
Reasons for Exemption
This project is Statutorily Exempt under California Public Resources Code, section 21080.56 because the Project is exclusively a project to restore and enhance habitat for California native fish and wildlife.
County Clerk
Butte
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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