California tribes will manage, protect state coastal areas

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5. Here's story about the dam that was removed in the Santa Cruz Mountains:

“For more than a century Mill Creek dam impeded Coho salmon from reaching desperately needed spawning habitat,” said Sara Barth, Sempervirens Fund’s executive director. “Removing the dam has been a missing piece in restoring creek flow and improving sediment conditions critical for spawning. A restored creek is also essential to the health and resilience of the surrounding redwoods and other nearby and downstream habitats at San Vicente.”

The Mill Creek section of the San Vicente watershed is prized for its heavy summer flow of cold water—even in current drought conditions—largely due to a substantial limestone karst system underground. Highly durable granite cobble, trapped behind the dam for a century, can now make its way downstream and into the watershed system, improving miles of potential salmonid spawning habitat, especially for endangered Coho salmon, at the southern end of their range.

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https://sempervirens.org/news/news-mill-creek-dam-removed-in-santa-cruz-mountains/

The dam was entirely filled with sediment.

As an aside, the comments on yahoo news are often depressing...