Category: Funded Projects

The Santa Monica Bay Foundation will help foster the long-term resilience of critical coastal habitat by restoring 1.3 acres of native Zostera pacifica (pacific eelgrass) in a cove on Catalina Island that historically supported a robust seagrass bed. The project will strengthen fish habitat connectivity, improve the success of open-coast eelgrass transplanting efforts, and document the environmental…

Greater Farallones Association and the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians will engage fishing community members in bull kelp habitat restoration along the Sonoma Coast at Sea Ranch, known to the Tribe as Tule qh’a le yo, in Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. The project will build on ongoing kelp restoration efforts by strengthening coordination among nonprofit…

This project is a retrospective assessment of seagrass restoration efforts over the past several decades in Coos Bay and Yaquina Bay, Oregon. Researchers will evaluate diversity, abundance, and performance metrics of species at restoration sites in these estuaries and compare those metrics to natural seagrass and nearshore nursery habitats to assess restoration effectiveness. This project…

The Santa Monica Bay Foundation will restore critical fish habitat connectivity on Catalina Island by transplanting 60,000 square feet of native Pacific eelgrass (Zostera pacifica) to a cove that historically supported a robust seagrass bed. The project team will transplant over 4,000 vegetative (asexual) buds, or turions, constituting the first transplant of this species on…

The project will complete the design to restore tidal conditions to one half of an old oxbow of the Alsea River, restoring about 34% of the tidal wetlands that have been lost. It is one of the largest (75 acre) remaining restoration sites on the Alsea. Sponsor: MidCoast Watersheds Council

This assessment project will provide data on eelgrass distribution and health to inform strategic fish habitat protection and restoration efforts in San Juan County, Washington and beyond. The assessment includes field surveys and mapping of eelgrass habitat, distribution, and depth data; eelgrass disease and fish presence data; a 20-year change analysis for eelgrass habitat:and in…

This project will remove up to 700 feet of shoreline armor, including creosote-treated wood, on the shoreline of Henderson Bay in Pierce County. The project will benefit forage fish and salmonids in the nearshore by allowing natural shoreline sediment processes. The armore removal will also reconnect up to 12.8 acres of existing mature marine riparian…

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe will conduct field surveys to determine fish and shellfish use of a 28-acre estuarine lagoon at the base of Ediz Hook in Port Angeles, Washington. The project will provide an assessment of what species (fish and shellfish) are present in the lagoon, along with continuous water quality data to inform…

The project will enhance a naturally occurring backwater feature on the south bank of the Smith River estuary, benefitting Southern Oregon and Northern Coastal California ESU Coho salmon, SONCC Chinook salmon, and Klamath Mountain Province Steelhead. The project will increase channel complexity along the mainstem Smith River and addresses impaired estuary function by increasing the…

Flower Pot Creek is a tributary flowing directly into Tillamook Bay. The Flower Pot Creek Fish Passage and Tidal Reconnection project will improve connectivity to approximately 1.4 stream miles and 14.6 acres of tidally influenced wetland. By replacing an undersized, deteriorating culvert with a bridge and streambed simulation, the project will correct a fish passage…