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ALBA Wetland Restoration

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The Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) owns two organic farms in Monterey County where limited-resource aspiring farmers and farm workers can grow and sell their organic produce. ALBA strives to advance their economic viability, social equity and ecological land management by creating opportunities for family farms, and providing education and demonstrations on conservation, habitat restoration, and whole farm planning.

Urban development and improperly managed agricultural areas are potential large sources of polluted runoff and threaten ecosystem health of the Elkhorn Slough. Fortunately, the Triple M Ranch and its important upstream floodplain/wetlands were salvaged from urban development and unsustainable agriculture practices when ALBA gained possession of the ranch in 2001 for organic production.

The Triple M Ranch plays a key role in the Elkhorn Slough watershed. It hosts the transition from fluvial to estuarine conditions on Carneros Creek, the primary fresh water tributary to Elkhorn Slough that provides more than 70% of the slough's freshwater.

ALBA developed the Triple M Ranch Management Plan to maintain ecological equilibrium and ecosystem health on the Triple M Ranch. Accordingly, areas that were once historic floodplains and that had been drained and dredged for nearly 80 years for agricultural purposes were taken out of production. Now, only 55 of the 195-acres on the ranch are under cultivation.

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The Carneros Creek riparian corridor on the Triple M Ranch is now the site of a wetlands restoration project that aspires to restore approximately 40-acres of historic floodplains and wetlands on the ranch to improve water quality entering the Elkhorn Slough. Restoration will allow reductions of orthophosphate, nitrates, suspended solids and turbidity, and reductions of diazinon and cloryrifos in water flowing into the slough. High concentrations of these primarily agricultural contaminants are directly linked to low water quality entering the slough. Another anticipated result of the project is that connectivity with adjacent wetlands will be improved. These enhanced floodplain processes will reestablish freshwater wetland habitat and create suitable breeding habitat and conditions for three endangered amphibian species found on the ranch: California Red-Legged Frog, California Tiger Salamander, and Santa Cruz Long-Toed Salamander.

The restoration project is both large in scale and scope. It was sustainably designed so that none of the economic interests of the farmers, the social interests of the community, or the environmental interests of endangered species and of the ecosystem are jeopardized. Interagency partnerships have been long established and will be maintained to focus on this project. Ideally, this wetlands restoration project will be used as a learning tool to demonstrate farming in harmony with sensitive habitats so that regulators can advance similar projects within the region and abroad.

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