Windler Floodplain Habitat Enhancement

Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Acquisition

Project ID	1737561854348
Recovery Domains	-
Start Date	03/28/2025
End Date	02/29/2028
Year	2024
Status	Ongoing
Last Edited	03/18/2026

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Description

The project will re-initiate geomorphic processes on the bar and create high quality winter rearing habitat and cold-water summer refugia for coho and other anadromous salmonids. The project design was funded by FRGP in 2019. 90% designs developed by MLA are consistent with the CA Restoration Manual. Project components include lowering the floodplain, side channel and alcove excavation, increasing side channel habitat complexity, and riverbar revegetation.

Project Benefit

The Windler Floodplain project will re-initiate fluvial geomorphic processes that promote scour and deposition, a complex channel network, bar top inundation, and groundwater recharge; create/enhance off-channel winter high-flow refugia for a broad range of flows, create/enhance in-river and off-channel cool water refugia; enhance low gradient spawning habitat; and restore riparian vegetation to provide shade and future large wood sources for natural recruitment.

Accomplishments

Metric

Completed

Originally
Proposed

Instream Habitat

Stream Miles Treated

.61

Riparian Habitat

Stream Miles Treated

.61

Acres Treated

7.3

Source

Funds

PCSRF

$1,888,038

State

$2,000,022

Other

$606,532

In-Kind Donated Labor

$3,200

Report Total:

$4,497,792

Worksites

1737561854946

Worksite Identifier: 1737561854946
Start Date:
End Date:

Area Description
Windler Bar, Gallia Pond and Cronan Gulch

Location Information

Basin:
Subbasin:
Watershed:
Subwatershed:

State:
Recovery Domain:
Latitude: 41.31292
Longitude: -123.19165

ESU

Upper Klamath / Trinity Rivers Chinook Salmon ESU
Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast Coho Salmon ESU

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Metrics

C.0 Salmonid Habitat Restoration and AcquisitionY (Y/N)
- . . C.0.a Habitat restoration and acquisition funding .00
- . . C.0.b Length of stream treated/protected
- . . C.0.c
  Project identified in a Plan or Watershed Assessment
- . . C.0.d.1 Project Monitoring (LOV)
- . . C.0.d.2 Monitoring Location (LOV)
- . . C.4 Instream Habitat ProjectY (Y/N)
  - . . . . C.4.a Instream Habitat Funding
  - . . . . C.4.b Total length of instream habitat treated
  - . . . . C.4.d.1 Channel structure placementY (Y/N)
    - . . . . . . C.4.d.4 Acres of streambed treated through channel structure placement
    - . . . . . . C.4.d.5 Pools expected to be created through channel structure placement
    - . . . . . . C.4.d.6 Yards of average stream-width at mid-point of channel structure placement project (Yards)
  - . . C.5 Riparian Habitat ProjectY (Y/N)
    - . . . . C.5.a Riparian Habitat Funding
    - . . . . C.5.b.1 Total riparian miles streambank treated
    - . . . . C.5.b.2 Total Riparian Acres Treated
    - . . . . C.5.c.1 Riparian plantingY (Y/N)
      - . . . . . . C.5.c.2
        Species of plants planted in riparian
      - . . . . . . C.5.c.3 Acres planted in riparian