Unique Habitat Restoration Project Using ‘ROCKWADS’ To Aid Endangered Fish Begins In Sacramento River

REDDING, CA – To help replicate debris that once collected in the Sacramento River that juvenile fish relied on prior to their outward migration, a coalition of farmers, scientists and government agencies have come together to place 25 structures known as ‘rockwads’ in Redding. 

The natural structures are built using 60 trees from a Woodland almond farm and dozens of 5-ton boulders from a north state quarry. Together, these ‘rockwads’ help provide…