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Community Watershed Partnerships

Mattole River, California

Gary Peterson talking to school children. Student releasing King Salmon.

Can you think like a salmon? That was the challenge for people who wanted to restore and maintain the natural systems of the Mattole River in northern California. They found that thinking like a salmon leads to thinking like a stream, then to thinking like a watershed, and finally to thinking like a watershed community. Here, elementary school children rear, spawn and release salmon into streams that have been reshaped and revegetated -- in forests that have been replanted with native trees.  Thanks to widespread community cooperation, a fragile recovery of a once troubled watershed has begun. Those involved realize that they must continue to exercise utmost care to maintain the gains made in the past seventeen years.

More Mattole River Information

Mattole Salmon Group Web Site

Mattole River QuickTime VR's
You can download high quality QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas below. Once downloaded, you can navigate in a 360 degree circle, viewing everything that is visible from one spot.  You simply click the mouse down on the picture and scroll around. These QTVR pans take about 2 minutes to download for viewing with a 28 k modem. See QTVR Information for necessary plug-ins and preferred setup.

Headwaters
Headwaters of Mattole River.

Bear Creek
Bear Creek, a tributary of Mattole River.

Mouth of the River
Mouth of the Mattole River at the ocean.


Mattole River QuickTime Video

You can play a QuickTime Video of a Digital Elevation Map (DEM) flyin over the Mattole River below. With our new compression techniques, this 14 second video will only take about 1-2 minutes to download for viewing with a 28 k modem. This video must use the QuickTime 3 plug-in. You can obtain the necessary QuickTime plug-in at the Apple QuickTime Software page. We're sure you'll agree that this video will be worth the short wait.

DEM fly-in over Mattole River


The Aurora Project is available as an interactive CD- ROM.
Please order the CD-ROM to experience the complete "virtual exploration"
of selected "Community Watershed Partnerships" located in the Western states.

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