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Bear Creek Riparian Restoration [ds2816]

Metadata Updated: March 30, 2024

Every year since 2002, members of the BCWG have participated in the international education and outreach program, World Water Monitoring Day, by collecting basic water quality measurements at eleven locations along Bear, Ash and Lack creeks within the Bear Creek Watershed. During this once-per-year monitoring event, BCWG members observed areas with little riparian cover and high water temperatures. These high water temperatures adversely affect the aquatic ecosystems and fishery of Bear Creek. Additionally, this lack of riparian vegetation makes stream banks more susceptible to erosion and ultimately leads to increased sediment delivery to the river.Building on the existing conditions documented in the Bear Creek Watershed Assessment, and the restoration goals and objectives identified in the Management Strategy, the BCWG proposes to purchase equipment to record diurnal stream temperatures, dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity and electrical conductivity throughout the anadromous reaches of Bear Creek. The BCWG will use this temperature and water quality data to guide riparian revegetation efforts in developing a shading riparian canopy that will protect and enhance cold water resources within the range of anadromy.Implementing stream monitoring and riparian planting at this time meets several objectives outlined in the Bear Creek Watershed Management Strategy including:Implement temperature monitoring aimed at defining the existing temperature regime both seasonally and spatially;Collect baseline data and monitor temperature and flow as they relate to fish abundance;Rehabilitate habitat with projects that are adaptively integrated with other goals of the Management Strategy;Develop public outreach programs to educate Bear Creek Watershed residents and government agencies and officials about the efforts of the BCWG to maintain and improve watershed health.Implementing a restoration project of this type would also help identify areas in the watershed that are consistently in poorer condition to enable the development of restoration prescriptions (stream/ riparian/ sediment source reductions) that can improve those conditions.

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Metadata Created Date September 15, 2023
Metadata Updated Date March 30, 2024

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Harvested from State of California

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 15, 2023
Metadata Updated Date March 30, 2024
Publisher California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Maintainer
Identifier 4787f9df-330a-4df1-b985-44787b8e805f
Data First Published 2020-01-22T21:02:05.000Z
Data Last Modified 2020-01-22T21:02:21.145Z
Category Natural Resources, Water
Public Access Level public
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Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
Harvest Source Title State of California
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 9a2e6933c570be3c0beac6503185d9f2fc1492d0d0ac1ccad54441852bf9f340
Source Schema Version 1.1

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