Tour Leaders:
Steve Howard, United Water Conservation District
Chris Jones, Unites States Army Corps of Engineers
Angela Bonfiglio Allen, Ventura County Watershed Protection District Canyon Irrigation District Staff/Consultants City of Ventura Wastewater Treatment Plant Staff

The Santa Clara River and tributary system covers about 1634 square miles. Major tributaries include Castaic Creek and San Francisquito Creek in Los Angeles County, and Sespe, Piru, and Santa Paula Creeks in Ventura County. This tour visited sites that include projects that are potential or current migration barriers for steelhead and Pacific lamprey and discuss the options for removal or modificaition to increase the available habitat for these species. Ultimately this tour showed the current challenges anadramous fish face attempting to migrate through the watershed including the current work being done to restore access to spawning tributaries and to increase available suitable habitat for all life stages of anadramous fish.