Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
The first year of construction on the Prairie Creek Floodplain Restoration Project recently kicked off work at the former Orick Mill site adjacent to Highway 101 next to Redwood National and State Parks. This project is part of a larger vision for the site that envisions a new trails gateway to the old-growth redwood parks nearby with a newly restored Prairie Creek and other amenities. The Yurok Tribal Construction Corporation crew just beat the big rains this fall and completed the first of five years of implementation of this large-scale restoration design. A two-acre backwater habitat was constructed along lower Prairie Creek which will provide critical rearing habitat for juvenile coho, Chinook, steelhead. A few acres of the old mill site asphalt was also removed to prepare for Save the Redwoods League’s Trail Gateway Project and a new point of public access into Redwood National and State Parks.
The first year of construction on the Prairie Creek Floodplain Restoration Project recently kicked off work at the former Orick Mill site adjacent to Highway 101 next to Redwood National and State Parks. This project is part of a larger vision for the site that envisions a new trails gateway to the old-growth redwood parks nearby with a newly restored Prairie Creek and other amenities. The Yurok Tribal Construction Corporation crew just beat the big rains this fall and completed the first of five years of implementation of this large-scale restoration design. A two-acre backwater habitat was constructed along lower Prairie Creek which will provide critical rearing habitat for juvenile coho, Chinook, steelhead. A few acres of the old mill site asphalt was also removed to prepare for Save the Redwoods League’s Trail Gateway Project and a new point of public access into Redwood National and State Parks.
