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| KRIS Can Show Benefits of Restoration Efforts Under Prop 50 and Other Programs | |
 Stornetta Ranch before restoration (8/94). KRIS Garcia. |
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| The North Coast has a strong restoration community that has spent thousands of hours and tens of millions of dollars of public money to restore Pacific salmon. Many of these projects also have substantial benefit to water quality, but a mechanism is necessary to prove their effectiveness. KRIS allows easy storage and retrieval of restoration photo points, and associated trend monitoring data. KRIS now includes a photodatabase, which allows users to easily organize large sets of digital photos in a comprehensive fashion. It was designed for the Mattole Restoration Council's photo monitoring of restoration projects. | |
 Road erosion source before treatment. Trinity Co. RCD. |
 Grass Valley Creek road decommissioned. KRIS V 3.0. |
| Recent cooperative efforts to recover Pacific salmon in the North Coast IRWMP region include attempts to reduce sediment related to roads. Trend monitoring can help prove the effectiveness of such road erosion abatement measures and help determe if the hydrologic integrity watersheds is being restored. By clearly demonstrating the benefits of road upgrading and decommissioning in this regard, continued funding of similar efforts is more likely under Prop 50 and subsequent programs. Case studies of successful projects throughout the North Coast IRWMP area can be shared rapidly through KRIS to help "shorten the learning curve" and increase restoration effectiveness. | |
