India, Oct. 17 -- All young creatures need a safe place to grow up, and baby salmon are no exception. One project in California's Delta is using the tide to create that habitat. A 2024 paper published in San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science notes that tidal wetland restoration for at-risk fish has gained momentum over the past decade. Dutch Slough, a site near Oakley, is one such effort.

In 2018, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and its state and local partners celebrated the groundbreaking of Dutch Slough in Oakley, which DWR described as the Delta's largest tidal wetlands restoration project at the time. That title has since passed to the 3,400-acre Lookout Slough project in Solano County, which DWR said was co...