The California State Coastal Conservancy awarded more than $7.3 million in grants Thursday to help restore, protect and improve access to coastal areas in the greater Bay Area and on the North Coast. Most of the projects support forest and vegetation management and wildfire abatement, funded by Proposition 4. … Friends of the Eel River will receive $181,400 to create the Eel River Native Plant Project, a regional native plant network that will support habitat restoration in the upper Eel River basin in Mendocino, Lake and Humboldt counties in response to the anticipated removal of the Scott and Cape Horn dams — known collectively as the Potter Valley Project — in 2028. 

Other habitat restoration news:

• Tahoe Daily Tribune (South Lake Tahoe, Calif.): Tahoe Conservancy to hold public workshops on Upper Truckee Marsh South Project​