Longtime CCC staff member Gary Burica was honored last month with the Salmonid Restoration Federation's Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Salmonid Restoration Federation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of California's salmon, steelhead and trout populations and their habitat.
Gary is a Conservationist II at the CCC's Ukiah Center, and has worked on hundreds of in-stream fish habitat restoration projects in Mendocino and Sonoma counties over his 25-year Corps career. This has included projects on the Russian River, Navarro River, Albion River, Little River, Noyo River and more.
Over the years, Gary has mentored thousands of corpsmembers in fish habitat work, some of whom have gone on to careers with the CCC, the Department of Fish and Game or other resource agencies.