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Proposed plan seeks to restore salmon and steelhead across 8 million acres of California’s north-central coast

Millions of wild salmon and steelhead once returned to California’s north-central coast. From Redwood Creek south to Aptos Creek, salmon and steelhead thrived in coastal watersheds. Development throughout the north-central coast over the last 100 years and the conversion of forestlands to urban and agricultural use, however, precipitated the decline of these populations. Between 1997 and 2000, California Coastal Chinook, Northern California steelhead, and Central California Coast steelhead were listed under the federal Endangered Species Act as species threatened with extinction…

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