Crews will work Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. 21, and is expected to continue through early April. “There’s a lot of aquatic species that we’ve never seen before. “The birds have just taken off,” he added. “This is one of the largest habitat restoration projects the state has done. This is a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity, said Jared Corbitt, resident engineer with Caltrans overseeing the endeavor. It’s part of the $6-billion North Coast Corridor Program, which includes the widening of I-5 and double-tracking the adjacent rail corridor between La Jolla and Oceanside. We have needlefish that we’ve never seen in the lagoon before.”Ĭaltrans and the San Diego Association of Governments partnered on the project with the Nature Collective, as well as the city of Encinitas. “We found our first octopus in the lagoon,” he said. The lagoon is already starting to show signs of healing, said Doug Gibson, executive director and principal scientist for the Nature Collective, formerly the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy. Even with a change in water-level-regulation to a more natural hydrologic regime, restoration requires methods for active cattail management without the ability to manipulate water depths and without imperiling other vegetation. (Ana Ramirez/The San Diego Union-Tribune) As a result of water-level regulation, cattails have invaded sedge/grass meadow in all wetlands on Lake Ontario.
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