User:Amberulinger/sandbox

Intro / History
-Partially inundated island

-southern tip / end of yolo bypass

-LIER solano county / 12 mi SE of dixon + 10 mi N of Rio Vista, northern part of island in yolo county.

-5,303 acres (full island) 4,308 LIER, 830 North Delta Fish Conservation Bank, 186 Liberty Island Conservation Bank

-accessible via Solano County country roads

-reclaimed from tidal marsh vegetation and converted to agricultural production from early 20th century until 1997

-1997 levees failed and island becomes inundated

-majority of island owned and managed by California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW)

-emergent marsh, grassland, and aquatic habitats

-Liberty Island Ecological Reserve

-”habitat enhancement, floodplain management, and recovery of endangered species” -Land Management Plan

-1999 TPL acquired from private owners, CDFW acquired January 2011 from Trust for Public Land

-Part of Reclamation District 2093

-No plans to reclaim LIER property

-adjacent to Sacramento River Deep Water Fishing channel

Fisheries / Ecology
“Critical habitat for fall run chinook delta smelt, North American Green Sturgeon” - Land management plan

Provides habitat linkage and migration corridors

Wetland and Grassland habitat, subtidal and open-water habitat

North of LIER is Northern Liberty Island Fish Conservation Bank and Liberty Island Conservation Bank and Preserve - owned by the Trust for Public Land and Wildlands, Inc. respectively, both managed by Wildlands, Inc.

Hydrology
Within Yolo Bypass flood easement capable of accomodating 490,000 cfs from “Sacramento River, Putah and Cache Creeks, Sutter Bypass, and Knights Landing Ridge Cut”(LMP).

Current / Working Sources
Liberty Island Ecological Reserve Land Management Plan - CDFW

Factors Affecting Marsh Vegetation at the Liberty Island Conservation Bank in the Cache Slough Region of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta - USGS

Suspended-Sediment Flux and Retention in a Backwater Tidal Slough Complex near the Landward Boundary of an Estuary - Tara L. Morgan-King & David H. Schoellhamer

North Delta Fish Conservation Bank - Wildlands, Inc.

Liberty Island Conservation Bank - Wildlands, Inc.