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Abode Creek Fish Ladder
Abode Creek Fish Ladder
The Adobe Creek Fish Ladder Project is an excellent example of the principals working behind the Community-Based Restoration Program. The project involves a partnership with an organization of high school students, the United Anglers of Casa Grande, who have successfully restored and maintained fish runs that had been nearly extirpated from the highly modified Adobe Creek. The students and their teacher worked for over a decade to clean up the river and to restore proper hydrology to the Creek. When the students needed to construct a permanent step-pool fish ladder system to provide passage for steelhead trout and Chinook salmon over a 12-foot obstruction, they contacted local NMFS restoration specialists. NMFS funded construction of the fish ladder, in partnership with other local, state and federal agencies, and the student group maintains the ladder and monitors its success as a fish passway as part of their ongoing stewardship of Adobe Creek.
Argilla Road Restoration of a Tidally-Restricted Salt Marsh
Adobe Creek Fish Ladder
Restoration
Student volunteers from the United Anglers work in the creek to clear it ofdebris. The students have worked at Adobe Creek, planting vegetation, cleaningthe stream and working to restore water flow to the creek for close to 15 years.The students are
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A group of student volunteers with Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, a supporterof the restoration at Adobe Creek.
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Heavy equipment places the boulders that were used to construct the fishpools.
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A high-flow event as water rushes over the newly constructed fish pools.
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Looking straight down at the fish pools, post restoration during a high-flowevent.
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Volunteers plant naturally occurring vegetation at the stream bed. When thevegetation is mature it will help to cool the stream and provide favorableconditions for spawning.
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Tom Furrer, the high school teacher, began the United Anglers of Case Grande asa way to actively engage students. Tom Furrer and another volunteer work toclean parts of the creek.
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Three students pose with a steelhead trout at their fish hatchery. The studentsraised nearly over a half a million dollars to construct a fish hatchery.
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Looking up towards the old culvert at the newly constructed fish pools.
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Student volunteers clear debris from the river.
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Jim Bybee and Rick Wantuck of NOAA examine small steelhead trout in the creek.
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A sign constructed by the students thanks NOAA for its role in the constructionof the fish pools.
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The sign thanking NOAA for its assistance in the construction.
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A student plants small native shrubs and trees in the riparian corridor to keepthe stream cool.
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A small tree, newly planted.
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The restoration site, mid construction before the pools were completelyconstructed.
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The completed fish pools, this image clearly shows how easily fish can nownavigate the creek.
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Water flows over the fish-step pools.
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A sign to commemorate the project sponsors. One of the attributes of thisproject was the strong community support.
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Looking downstream at the completed pools.
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