Prairie Creek Restoration Project: Restoring a Stream Bed

Aaron Martin is Habitat Restoration Biologist for the Yurok Tribe. Watch our latest video on the Prairie Creek Restoration Project to hear Aaron talk about some of the goals of restoring the stream channel in Prairie Creek!

Due to years of harmful activities on this landscape including logging, grazing and development, the creek's stream bed became incised and pushed up against the highway embankment. This restoration project aims to bring the meandering nature back to the natural stream bed through the meadow and to get more water back up onto the floodplain. Many phases of restoration have worked towards these goals including de-watering the existing channel and piping it under the meadow while the old channel was being restored. Aaron has been a project lead since the start and has personally overseen all phases of the stream bed restoration. His job is to guide the restoration efforts keeping the best interests of fish and other wildlife in mind and making sure these same species are not harmed throughout the multi-year construction process.

Learn more about Prairie Creek restoration here: https://caltrout.org/projects/prairie-creek-floodplain-restoration

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