Evaluating the Role(s) of the Butte Sink and Sutter Bypass for Butte Creek Spring-Run Chinook salmon and other Central Valley Juvenile Salmonid Populations

This is a Notice of Intent to award UC Davis. The project was reviewed by the Central Valley Project Improvement Act’s (CVPIA) Core Team and selected for funding because it addresses priorities within the CVPIA and will help to direct future watershed management decisions. It was included in the CVPIA 2019 annual work plan. The purpose of this award is to identify food-web productivity and other growth metrics, in a range of habitats for rearing juvenile Spring Chinook salmon in the Lower Butte Creek Sink (Sutter County, California) and flood bypass areas. This project will build on research conducted in other floodplains in the Sacramento River System and adjacent agricultural fields.