- What We Do
- Climate Adaptation
Arundo
In partnership with Healdsburg Fire, we are targeting 200 acres of Arundo between Rio Lindo Academy and the 101 bridge.
How We’re Removing It
- Minor infestations are removed manually using:
- Hand tools (pick-axe, mattock, shovel)
- Follow-up treatments include carefully applied herbicide to prevent regrowth. Restoration helps improve river flow, reduce erosion, and restore habitat quality.
Our Current Focus
Improve flows in the river, which can prevent harmful algae from blooming. It alters channel morphology by retaining sediments and constricting flows, and navigability. Arundo can promote bank erosion because it blocks normal channel meander processes and pushes the river into banks and locks it in place. Uprooted plants also pose clean-up problems when deposited on banks or in downstream estuaries, and during floods, create hazards when trapped behind bridges and other structures.