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| Project Summary: Students from French Gulch-Whiskeytown Elementary School, the North American Wilderness Academy (NAWA) and Chrysalis Charter School are participating in the Nature Restoration Trust-funded Clear Creek Restoration and Monitoring Project. This project involves approximately 65 fourth through twelfth graders who will be studying, restoring and monitoring a severely burned riparian area near French Gulch in Shasta County's Upper Clear Creek Watershed. |
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| The project site was selected this spring along French Gulch Creek as the area was severely burned during the August 2004 French Fire. The project will encompass student involvement in all aspects of a restoration plan from design to implementation and maintenance. Tasks include: |
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1) Forming a Student Advisory Team (SAT) to work with knowledgeable watershed stakeholders including agency representatives and the local watershed group to develop a restoration plan. |
2) Removing the invasive plants such as Himalayan Blackberry and Tree of Heaven. |
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| 3) Replanting the site with native Willow, wild grape, redbud and other species. | 4) Setting up wildlife track plates to gather information on types and numbers of small wildlife. |
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| A project Website has been established at http://www.kidsinthecreek.org and features a site location map, photos and a student blog. Monitoring data and curriculum will be available on the site as the project evolves. Community events include the French Gulch-Upper Clear Creek Resource Management Group stakeholder meeting, the 2006 Shasta District Fair, Shasta County Watershed Awareness Day and the springtime "Creek Day", hosted and coordinated by this project's students.The Western Shasta Resource Conservation District (RCD) received the $29,368 grant this spring from the Nature Restoration Trust, a partnership between the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. For more information: (530) 365-7332.
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