Ackerman Creek Habitat Restoration
Project Overview
Basics
Ackerman Creek Habitat Restoration
- Conserve and Restore Salmonid Habitats and Ecosystems
- Develop, Collect and Analyze Data at a Variety of Spatial Scales to Inform Priority Projects/Actions
- Ensure that Disadvantaged and Underrepresented Communities Benefit from Initiatives
- Integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Collaboration with Tribes
- Protect and Enhance Watersheds and Ecosystems that Provide Water Quality and Supply Benefits
- Respect Local Autonomy and Local Knowledge in NCRP Planning and Implementation
NCRP IRWM Prop 84 Round 1 (DWR)
Completed
This riparian restoration effort implemented two parts of an overall plan that included improvements to channel and stream banks and supported other invasive plant removal efforts within the Russian River Watershed. The tribe secured funding to design channel improvements from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and from NRCS and Fish & Wildlife to implement riparian planting. The project involved PPN Citizens and Youth in the removal and re-vegetation activities which were reinforced by field-based science and culture lessons.
2012
2013
2019
3/24/2024
Project Attributes
General Information
Project Description Narrative (1,000 character limit)
The Ackerman Creek Habitat Restoration Project would remove invasive plants from about 0.4 acres of riparian habitat and would plant native vegetation on 4 acres of riparian habitat along 0.63 miles of Ackerman Creek. Without the project, invasive plants such as Arundo and Himalayan blackberry (Rubus discolor) would continue to spread across the landscape, further decreasing the quality of riparian and aquatic habitat in the area. With the project, 4 acres of riparian habitat would be restored by removing invasive plants from 0.4 acres and planting native vegetation including trees, shrubs, and grasses that would enhance instream flows and riparian function throughout the four-acre area and improve aquatic habitat in Ackerman Creek. This riparian restoration would also improve aquatic habitat in Ackerman Creek and increase carbon sequestration in the restored riparian areas.
Solutions
Climate Action - Adaptation, Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration - Tribal Ecocultural Restoration, Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration - Water
Spatial Information
Tribal Region
South
Project Size (Acres)
4
acres
Location
None Selected
N/A Tribal land
Organizations
| Contract Manager | |
| Funders | |
| Partners | |
| Project Sponsor | |
| Local and/or Political Support | US Bureau of Reclamation |
Contacts
Project Benefit Performance Measures
Expected Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Carbon storage | Habitat type: Forest | 1 metric tons |
| Education & outreach - # of participants | 5 | |
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | Activity focus: Environmental improvement | 1 count |
| Habitat Restoration - Acres restored | Habitat type: Riparian Project type: Invasive species removal | 0.4 acres |
| Habitat Restoration - Stream channel improved | Habitat type: Riparian Project type: Revegetation | 3,326.4 lf |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | 0.5 | |
| Special status species protection - # of projects | 1 count |
Reported Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Agricultural heritage preservation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Working land category | 2019 | Units |
| Tribal/cultural | 1 | count |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Carbon storage | ||
|---|---|---|
| Habitat type | 2019 | Units |
| Forest | 0.56 | metric tons |
| Total | 0.56 | metric tons |
| Education & outreach - # of participants | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Units | |
| 14 | number | |
| Total | 14 | number |
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| Activity focus | 2019 | Units |
| Environmental improvement | 1 | count |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Habitat Restoration - Acres restored | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat type | Project type | 2019 | Units |
| Riparian | Invasive species removal | 45 | acres |
| Total | 45 | acres | |
| Habitat Restoration - Stream channel improved | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat type | Project type | 2019 | Units |
| Riparian | Revegetation | 3,326.4 | lf |
| Total | 3,326.4 | lf | |
| Honoring & incorporating Tribal priorities - # of projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Units | |
| 1 | count | |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Units | |
| 0.5 | number | |
| Total | 0.5 | number |
| Special status species protection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Protection status | 2019 | Units |
| Federal endangered/ threatened fish | 1 | count |
| Special status species protection - # of projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Units | |
| 1 | count | |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Water quality improved - # of projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| Project type | 2019 | Units |
| Increase natural filtration (riparian, field edge plantings, etc.) | 1 | count |
| Total | 1 | count |
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
|---|
Reported Expenditures
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRWM Prop 84 R1 (SWRCB) (DWR) (Inactive) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $46,950.00 | $46,950.00 |
| Matching Funds (Matching Funds) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $40,000.00 | $40,000.00 |
| Grand Total | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $86,950.00 | $86,950.00 |
| Note: | None provided |
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Project Types
Project Types
The project includes a monitoring component to assess native plant survival and regrowth of invasive species for adaptive management.
The project engaged Tribal youth and elders in a project to improve their watershed while providing cultural and scientific information.
This was a habitat enhancement project on Ackerman Creek.; The project removed invasive arundo and blackberry from the site.
Riparian restoration of Ackerman Creek increases watershed climate resiliency through removal of the invasive arundo, which outcompetes native vegetation and uses more water than natives. Replanting with culturally appropriate native plants enhances the Pinoleville Pomo community's resilience to climate change through provision of plant materials and restoration of improved hydrologic function.
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