Stream Restoration

The Land sits at the headwaters of Miller Creek, which flows into Redwood Creek and on to the Eel River. Coho salmon and steelhead still spawn in lower Miller Creek. Logging roads from the 1950s left gullies and slides that send sediment downstream. In 2006, with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and NRCS, we armored a gully up to 20 feet wide with 260 tons of boulders, placed by excavator and by hand. It has held through every big storm since. We’ve also stabilized a slide that was eroding into a stream, built rolling dips to keep road runoff out of creeks, and put unstable old roads to bed.