SCH Number 2024041277

Title: Cannibal Island Restoration Project (Project)
Description: On February 7, 2024, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Lands and Wildlife Program, in coordination with Project partners, submitted a Statutory Exemption for Restoration Project (SERP) Concurrence Request to implement the Project on CDFW’s Eel River Wildlife Area. The Project will enhance and reconnect full tidal exchange to approximately 500 acres of former tidal marsh habitat through the removal of degraded water control structures, excavation of historic slough channels, and enhancement of natural marsh topography. Increased tidal exchange and connectivity will promote recovery and maintenance of tidal marsh habitats that support a variety of native fish, wildlife, and plant species, including Sensitive Natural Communities (SNC), rare plants, and State and Federal Endangered Species Act-listed fish, such as Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and others. Improvement of tidal channel networks will accommodate natural sediment transport and marsh plain accretion processes, thereby increasing the resilience of this landscape to sea level rise.

2 documents in project

Type	Lead/Public Agency	Received	Title
NOE	California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Northern and Eureka Region 1 (CDFW)	11/21/2024	Cannibal Island Marsh Restoration Project
NOE	California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Northern and Eureka Region 1 (CDFW)	4/30/2024	Cannibal Island Restoration Project (Project)