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To the person requesting ideas for environmental projects in
California.  Here are two.  Is this what you want.

Provide minor restoration of the Los Angeles River below Sepulveda
Basin.  Perform surveys to see if fish, stripers, or steelhead could
live in the effluent below the dam.  Steelhead and Salmon are strange
fish in that they can be spawned, the fry can be raised elsewhere,
and the smolts can be brought back at the right time can get
sensitized to the L.A. river or even saltwater pens.  Homer Alaska is
an example.  There is a spit with a saltwater pond about 1/2 acre
with a pipe leading out to the ocean.  The Salmon smolts are brought
in at the right time, put in pens, then released to the ocean.  5
years later you can fish for them as 30 lbers, and is is strictly
catch-n-kill because the eggs are not collected there.  Furthermore
there is only a two or three month period of time you have to worry.
December to Feburary would have the water conditions for the
Salmoids.  Steelhead have historic ranges into Baha and Los Angeles
is at the southern historic range of the Salmon.

Another project would be up at the Forest ranger station near
Mountain High Ski area or Wrightwood.  There is an old water
reservoir that is broken and empty.  The concrete could be repaired
filled with water and fish and fowl could be allowed to live there.