GRCC Program Current Status

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GRCC Program Current Status
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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

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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

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Bendas North Fork Study
Positive feedback channel aggradation
undercutting slopes
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Oil Creek
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Devils Creek
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Upper North Fork
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Upper North Fork at Honeydew
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Bendas Graphics
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More Benda Diagrams In my opinion this is where
instream restoration can be most effective
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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 Bendas
  diagram
• Also complete instream site on mainstem Mattole
  at Groelings (Petrolia Project Area)

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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

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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

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We need to focus on a limiting factors approach
for watershed prioritization
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