Napa County sees renewed focus on fish barrier removals
Marshall Wallace wants a concrete crossing over Pickle Canyon Creek removed, given this feature on his family’s Mount Veeder land blocks rare steelhead trout from reaching spawning habitats upstream. The vehicle crossing was there when his family bought the property in 1988. His father later built a vehicle bridge over the creek, and the old crossing is no longer needed or used. Wallace described the crossing as “a big lump of concrete” in the creek and said, “I’d like to see it gone.” …A push has begun to remove or remediate fish barriers in Napa County. The Napa County Resource Conservation District and Water Audit California have come up with a list of 51 barriers that, if removed, would open up more than 250 miles of spawning habitat.