More help for restoring the salmon population for the South Yuba River Citizens League. The Wildlife Conservation Board is fully funding a four-million dollar project. SYRCL Interim Executive Director, Aaron Zettler-Mann, says the Upper Rose Bar Restoration Construction, as it’s called, is within reach of the river, about a mile downstream of Englebright Dam. It’s publicly owned by the Yuba Water Agency, on 43 acres, about a mile and a half from Smartsville…

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The project will also re-contour areas along both banks of the river, to create rearing benches for juvenile salmonoids. And it also includes funding for post-project biological and geomorphic monitoring…

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Zettler-Mann says work is scheduled to begin in late June or early July and be largely completed by September.