Restoration Projects

The CHRPD is a cooperative project funded by NOAA Fisheries and the California Department of Fish and Game and managed by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Introduction

The California Habitat Restoration Project Database (CHRPD) was created in 1999 to capture, manage and disseminate data about habitat restoration projects in California benefiting anadromous fish. In addition to serving as a comprehensive repository for information about California habitat restoration projects, the georeferenced project locations in the database enable geographical analyses of projects, aiding analysis of past trends and planning of future restoration work.

The CHRPD currently contains data from the California Department of Fish and Game’s Fisheries Restoration Grants Program, the CALFED Ecosystem Restoration Program, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the State Coastal Conservancy, the NOAA Restoration Center, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the California Conservation Corps, and the Cantara Trustee Council.

Fisheries Restoration Grant Program (FRGP)

The CHRPD is used as the primary grant-tracking tool for the DFG Fisheries Restoration Grant Program. This program disberses state and federal funding for watershed restoration projects in coastal California watersheds. For more information about the program, click here.

An interactive set of pdf documents illustrates the current distribution of FRGP projects, as shown in the example below. To view these documents, click here.

CALFED Ecosystem Restoration Program (ERP)

The CHRPD is also used as the primary grant-tracking tool for the CALFED Ecosystem Restoration Program. This program funds ecosystem restoration projects in the California Central Valley and Bay-Delta watersheds. For more information about the program, click here.

To use the ERP Public Data Query Tool, click here.

Viewing Restoration Project Locations

Locations of projects in the CHRPD are separated into two categories in the Fish Maps tool on the CalFish website. CHRPD projects are in the Management tab, under Recovery Activities.

To view all projects in the CHRPD, including FRGP projects and projects from other agencies, but excluding ERP projects, select "Salmon Restoration Projects."

To view ERP projects, select "Ecosystem Restoration Program."

General project types included in the CHRPD

Habitat improvement
Watershed assessment and planning
Watershed organization support
Monitoring
Land and water right acquisition
Education
Hatchery projects

Data Categories

Data source(s)
Project timeframe
Project description
Limiting factors addressed by the project
Participants (including role and financial contribution)
Funding sources
Project costs
Site-specific data:
     Site location
     Land cover
     Restoration goals
     Treatment details and quantities
     Post-project monitoring
     Land ownership
     Project performance measures
Species affected
Final analysis and final report
References (published and unpublished documents relating to the project)


Mill Creek Watershed Rehabilitation Project (BEFORE). DFG Archives	Mill Creek Watershed Rehabilitation Project (AFTER). DFG Archives

For More Information

Robin Carlson
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
(916) 324-8298
rcarlson@dfg.ca.gov