Floodplains — Lessons from the Yolo Bypass

a river flowing through a control structure cut into the middle of a long weir

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s and CA Department of Water Resource’s $58 million Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage (“Big Notch”) Project came online last December. It shows that riparian habitat restoration doesn’t have to mean disruption…