News Release: A late Christmas gift arrives for Lake Oroville fish
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) completed its yearly post-holiday tradition of recycling Christmas trees into prime habitat for fish species at Lake Oroville and the Thermalito Afterbay. DWR’s Oroville Field Division and their local partners collect the trees and bundle them together as habitat structures that provide juvenile fish shelter to conceal themselves from predators. Providing these small fish with safe refuge areas boosts their chance of survival, thereby increasing fish populations in Lake Oroville and the Thermalito Afterbay.