Project Tracker

SRCAF Project Review Process:
  • Project entered into project tracker
  • TAC reviews/comments on proposal
  • SRCAF Board reviews TAC comments, and evaluates proposal for consistency the handbook
  • Board may issue consistency letter for project

The Sacramento River Conservation Area Forum provides this proposal/project tracking process to better facilitate information exchange with all interested parties, improve coordination between management entities, and reduce conflict with neighbors and others along the Sacramento River

Project sponsors fill out and update the project fact sheet for the Forum to help both project proponents and parties interested in what activities are occurring, or bing proposed, along the River. The project tracker also serves as a mechanism to provide updates as activities reach key milestones or new phases.

A project will be entered at least ten days prior to the SRCAF Technical Advisory Committee for inclusion in the agenda packet. The TAC may comment on the proposal and then send it to the SRCAF Board for review and a position statement that will address consistency with the Handbook and Board Policy.

Proponents are asked to present the proposal to the TAC and answer questions at both the TAC and Board meetings.












"The Sacramento River Conservation Area Forum offers everyone an opportunity to make projects better - those that may be affected can provide input during the planning stage to help reduce conflicts, and proponents can improve their proposals through constructive dialogue. The Forum promotes open communication to find reasonable solutions for activities along the Sacramento River."

Burt Bundy, Tehama County landowner and former SRCAF Manager

Goals

The overall goal of the management program for the SRCAF (SB 1086) is to preserve remaining riparian habitat and reestablish a continuous riparian ecosystem along the Sacramento River between Redding and Chico, and reestablish riparian vegetation along the river from Chico to Verona. This will be accomplished through this incentive-based, voluntary river management plan. Riparian habitat is actually a diverse mosaic of habitat types, which is part of a bigger picture that includes the entire river ecosystem and the humans within it.

Principals

Too often, restoration is attempted piecemeal, or is carried out in ways that do not take human activities into account. In the SB1086 program, the principles which provide the foundation for all restoration work are rooted in the fact that riparian habitat is closely linked to the river ecosystem and human activities. These principles, discussed in the next section, fall into six categories:

  • Ecosystem management: Use an ecosystem approach that contributes to the recovery of threatened and endangered species and is sustainable by natural processes
  • Flood management: Use the most effective and least environmentally damaging bank protection technique to maintain a limited meander
  • Bank Protection: Operate within the parameters of local, state and federal flood control and bank protection programs
  • Voluntary participation: Participation by private landowners is voluntary; never mandatory
  • Local concerns: Give full consideration to landowner, public, and local government concerns
  • Information and education: Accurate and accessible information/education is essential to sound resource management.

Managent Guidelines

In addition to developing these principles, the committee has also developed a set of management guidelines:

  • SRCAF handbook (link)
  • Conservation Area definition
  • Inner river zone guidlines and limited meander concept
  • Restoration priorities
  • Site-specific planning process
  • Sacramento River GIS