Beleaguered American River salmon and steelhead will have some nice new spawning beds to work with this fall and winter thanks to a new riffle built near Sailor Bar. The restoration work was a joint effort between The Bureau of Reclamation, The Water Forum and the County of Sacramento, installed fresh spawning riffles in the river near Sailor Bar back in October. The work was completed last week and is the first of several such projects slated for the river.
Up to 75,000 cubic yards of gravel will be added to the river at seven sites over a 5-year period and workers will also restore and enhance side channel habitat at three sites, which will greatly benefit spawning steelhead.
