Natural History Wanderings

SF Gate reports

The tearing down of the levee is among the final steps in a public-private project to restore tidal land — which was turned over to farmers and duck hunters — to its natural state. The plot of land, located in Solano County and just upriver from Rio Vista, is being called Lookout Slough, and it will provide new habitat for fish and wildlife and increase flood protection for the greater Sacramento area by boosting water storage capacity in the Yolo Bypass, Charlotte Biggs, an assistant division manager with the Ca

Lookout Slough marks “the largest tidal restoration project in California history,” Wade Crowfoot, California’s natural resources secretary, said in a video posted on social media.

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