The Butte County Resource Conservation District (BCRCD) has been facilitating restoration work on a California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW)-owned reserve.  Although this meadow has been impacted by historical grazing, CDFW-led efforts to build exclusionary fencing and install log weirs (shown in the photo below) have helped prevent further channel incision. However, many of these weirs were damaged in the 2021 Dixie Fire and require maintenance to continue slowing flows and spreading water.

To address this, the project takes a hybrid approach to restoration, combining process-based techniques—such as beaver dam analogs and post-assisted log structures—with form-based methods like rocked cross vanes.