Restoration Efforts

River Partners and the Tuolumne River Trust led efforts to permanently protect Dos Rios by purchasing the property in 2012. To date, an alliance of dedicated public, private, and nonprofit partnersplanted more than 350,000 native trees and vegetation along nearly eight miles of the San Joaquin and Tuolumne rivers that converge at the heart of Dos Rios. About 1,600 acres have been restored so far, and restoration work is ongoing on another 500 acres on an adjacent former farm.

River Partners has historically used existing irrigation infrastructure on the former farmland to help young vegetation endure hot dry summers as the vegetation was initially established. Bunny ramps and mounds have also been developed for endangered species, like the riparian brush rabbit, to escape to higher ground during periods of flooding. Thanks to these various restoration efforts, Dos Rios now provides large-scale habitat for endangered species such as the riparian brush rabbit, riparian woodrat, Swainson’s hawk, Central Valley Chinook salmon, steelhead trout, least Bell’s vireo, yellow warbler, sandhill crane, and an entire suite of neo-tropical migratory songbirds!