TUOLUMNE RIVER PRESERVATION TRUST
1031 15th Street 6, Modesto, CA 95354 www.tuolumne.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Promoting stewardship of the Tuolumne River through: education, community outreach and adventures, collaboration with a diverse array of stakeholders, on-the-ground restoration projects, advocacy and grassroots organizing to demonstrate public support for our work.

Central Valley ProgramTRT continues to build support for increasing the amount of water flowing down the lower Tuolumne for fish, wildlife, water quality and recreation by engaging in the effort to relicense Don Pedro-the largest dam on the Tuolumne River. We have completed a strategic restoration plan for the lower Tuolumne River to benefit salmon and steelhead, and filed our plan with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in response to the Amended Final License Application for Don Pedro Dam. We also completed a draft scientific analysis of stressors on salmon and steelhead and specifying specific environmental objectives that must be achieved in order to recover the salmon and steelhead populations. Our restoration efforts on the lower Tuolumne River were focused on the removal of Dennett Dam, which we completed in October 2018. TRT continued to build our base of support within the communities along the lower Tuolumne River for the Tuolumne River Parkway with two staff members offering programs that connect children and families to the river through safe and fun recreational activities, education programs, and river cleanups and other projects to improve these communities that involved thousands of people.Fiscal ProjectsThe organization is the fiscal sponsor of the Airport Neighborhood Collaborative (ANC), a coalition of groups, community members and persons residing or involved in the Modesto Airport Neighborhood and to Operation 9299, a collaborative project funded by the Sylvan Improvement Club. We are the fiscal sponsor for a number of projects supported by the Yosemite Stanislaus Solutions collaborative.

Sierra Nevada ProgramTo support recovery from the massive Rim Fire, which burned 257,000 acres of forested watershed lands, we organized over 500 volunteers to help plant 5,000 trees on 100 acres, restore 5 miles of trail, pull noxious weeds on 60 acres of land, and other activities. We also managed the restoration of 13 meadows, 7 springs, 950 acres of deer habitat restoration, installed 18 Great Gray Owl Nest Structures, restored 32 acres of aspen stands, installed 2 wildlife guzzlers and 20 wildlife-friendly troughs. We have also given watershed education presentations to 1,000 students and 500 members of the general public. We secured a $5M grant from CalFire to undertake forest restoration on over 5,000 acres of watershed lands. We also co-chaired the Yosemite Stanislaus Solutions forest restoration collaborative, which is dedicated to restoring forest health, meadows, streams, and wildlife habitat in the headwaters of the Tuolumne watershed.

Bay Area ProgramTRT continues to promote water conservation in the Bay Area communities that depend on water from the Tuolumne River. By promoting water conservation policies and actions, water use in these communities continues to decline despite the fact that Bay Area water agencies had projected an increase in total water use over this same time. Water use in the Bay Area has declined by 28% since 2008. We also educated thousands of people about the river and engaged them in watershed stewardship and policies that impact the Tuolumne River.

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