Wood Creek Phase III - Felt Ranch Off-Channel Rearing Habitat Planning Project

The specific objective of this Project is to produce fully permitted 100 % final design plans, that once implemented, will: 1) provide fish passage and hydrologic connectivity between Wood Creek and Freshwater Creek wetlands to sustain non-natal rearing of juvenile Coho Salmon, steelhead trout, and other salmonids; 2) create a diversity of productive slow-water aquatic habitats at the upper fringe of the Freshwater Creek estuary ecotone for use by endemic fish, wildlife, and vegetation and 3) enhance drainage and reduce flooding inundation of adjacent agricultural areas.

This project, once implemented, will connect a continuum of rearing conditions from fully freshwater marsh on Felt Ranch to brackish and fully tidal marsh habitats in lower Wood Creek, and thus provide a complex, interconnected mosaic of rearing opportunities for listed Coho Salmon, Chinook Salmon, steelhead trout, and other wildlife.