Michael Stauffer of Streaminders talks about a project to restore the riparian vegetation along a stretch of Big Chico Creek near Caper Acres in Bidwell Park, which involved replacing 50 tons of concrete and asphalt. The organization and the city of Chico had an information table and offered tours of the area Saturday. The work continues and volunteers are need to help with the restoration. (Story and photo from Sept. 23, 2007 Chico Enterprise-Record).
Student volunteers began cleanup of a 17-acre, empty, city-owned lot that used to house a gravel quarry during the construction of Highway 99. Now the lot mostly houses concrete covered in weeds, oak trees and yellow starthistle.
To clean up the property, the Big Chico Creek Watershed Alliance, the Mechoopda Tribe, Streaminders, Chico State University and Community Action Volunteers in Education (CAVE) collaborated a large scale project to remove invasive plants and restore the site to wetlands, grassland and oak woodlands. 09/30/07
After a delay of seven years, work began Thursday on a floodplain project on Big Chico Creek where Nord Avenue bridges it. Heavy equipment is whittling away the north bank to re-establish a floodplain, which will allow the creek flow to spread into an open, unoccupied area and slow its speed. 09/28/07
