The DFG Hopland office serves the habitat assessment needs along with restoration planning for the Russian River Basin, Napa River Basin, Southern Sonoma County and Marin County. The Hopland office assists the University of California Cooperative Extension in Sonoma with the monitoring of the Coho Captive Broodstock Program along the few remaining streams that support coho in the Russian River Basin. While your field work location may vary the office is located near Hopland. The Department rents space from the University of California Research and Extension Center Field Station at Hopland (HREC). HREC is a working field laboratory that has studied sheep, range management, soil science, oak woodland ecology and many other fascinating topics. Working with HREC provides the Department unique opportunities and tools for watershed planning.

Project Summary

Habitat Typing
Migrant fish trapping
Spawner Surveys
Electrofish presence surveys
Coho Broodstock Program fish plants
Coho Broodstock Program wild coho capture

Fisheries Restoration Grants Mangement Proposal Field Review
Grant Management
Implementation monitoring

Education and Outreach Habitat Typing Report Writing The Hopland office conducts habitat typing assessments for anadromous inland waters in the northern counties of the Bay Delta Region. These assessments in the past were focused on the Russian River Basin but have recently been expanded to include coastal Sonoma and Marin watersheds, the Napa River Watershed, the Petaluma River Watershed, and east Marin bay side watersheds. Every Year offers a new opportunity to work in a different watershed.

From the above assessments WSP Members assist in the drafting of Habitat Inventory Reports which are crucial to developing restoration planning priorities, endangered species recovery planning, and habitat conservation resource priorities.

The WSP Individual Service Project has given members the opportunity to develop and implement various habitat restoration projects throughout the Hopland site area. Members have developed projects that include stream clean-ups, riparian restoration project maintenance, riparian tree planting projects, and bioengineering bank stabilization projects.

WSP members have been an incredibly valuable resource to our Agency Partners by assisting in other projects. WSP Members have assisted hatchery staff with spawning, tagging and planting steelhead Chinook and coho. WSP Memebers also assist the Sonoma County University of California Cooperative Extension in their efforts to monitor the Coho Captive Broodstock Program. This includes spawner surveys, working migrant traps and assisting with summer abundance surveys.