Helping endangered rabbit may reduce flooding risk
Saving the endangered Riparian brush rabbits could also protect large swaths of rural south Manteca as well as part of Lathrop from flooding. It is because efforts of the non-profit River Partners at the 2,100-acre Dos Rios Preserve located at the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers to assist the rabbit subspecies, five endangered birds, and three endangered fish could also provide 10,000 acre feet of critical transient floodwater storage to reduce flood stages as far north as Stockton.