I consulted with program leads, conducted independent research, and then scripted, filmed, and edited this short feature about TRT’s newest restoration project.
This landscape-scale floodplain and habitat project is situated along the Lower Tuolumne River in La Grange, California where gold and gravel mining changed the makeup of the river, reducing Chinook salmon populations down to 1% of their historical numbers. This project achieves two important things for migrating salmon populations: it restores floodplains into food-rich nurseries for young Chinook salmon and it reconstructs in-stream rock riffles that are critical for spawning adult salmon.
This short offers a quick glimpse at the project’s first phase. Read the full River News article: Rocks, Riffles & Floodplains: Restoration Creates Salmon Habitat on the Tuolumne to learn more!
