Blog: New restoration project kicks off on Scott River tributary
As drought persists and future impacts of climate change threaten, salmonids across the state will increasingly seek out refuge from warming waters. Cold-water streams like Big Mill Creek, a tributary to the East Fork of the Scott River, offer important refuge for these fish including the federal and state threatened coho salmon. In the next few years, CalTrout, with the support of The Wildlands Conservancy and our project partners, will prepare to implement a project to restore fish access to upstream habitat in Big Mill Creek creating impacts that could ripple throughout the whole watershed. … Much of the river is warm, but there are cold-water pockets where thousands of coho salmon can be found.