Overview
Our Organization is Landowner and Stakeholder Based
The Alliance is a non-profit, public benefit corporation. Our Board of Directors seeks to include landowners from the sub-watershed areas listed above (e.g. Rock Creek, Lindo Channel) as well as other individuals with an interest in the watershed. We believe that this balance of landowner and “stakeholder” participation will best serve the interests of the watershed and the communities in it.
Our Programs
Citizen Monitoring
 The Alliance, together with citizen volunteers, conducts water quality monitoring in Big Chico Creek. In 2004, we received a grant from the Sierra Nevada Alliance to establish four sites in our upper watershed. For 2005, we have received a grant from the CALFED Watershed Program to extend that effort to other sites, including sites on Big Chico Creek's tributaries.
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Butte County Resource Conservation District Watershed Partnership Project
The Alliance, together with the other watershed groups in Butte County, is working together with the Butte County RCD to establish a Memorandum of Understanding, conduct joint planning and implement joint projects on water quality, irrigation efficiency and fundraising.
Dirt Road Rehabilitation Project
 The Alliance has partnered with the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve and the Butte County RCD to rehabilitate an eroding dirt road on the Reserve and to conduct outreach to landowners in the upper watersheds of Butte County to encourage the use of these practices.
The long term goal of these organizations is to develop a countywide program for dirt roads, including inventory, assessment, and rehabilitation. We hope to provide cost-share, technical resources and design and operator references for roads with high impacts on water resources. We are seeking grant funding for such a program.
Arundo and Tamarisk Eradication
 The Alliance has received a grant to eradicate Arundo donax (giant reed) and Tamarix spp. (tamarisk) in Lindo Channel. These non-native plants are highly invasive, cause channel changes and increase fire danger. We will work in partnership with the City of Chico Parks Department to implement this project.
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Iron Canyon Fish Ladder
 Spring run Chinook salmon swim up Big Chico Creek to spawn, but are blocked by the basalt boulders that have tumbled into the creek above Salmon Hole in Bidwell Park . A fish ladder was built in the 1950s to provide pools of water for the fish to traverse the blocked area and reach the cooler pools to hold over the summer for fall spawning. It has fallen into disrepair and the Alliance is working together with the resource agencies to fund a fix.
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