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California gives rivers more room to flow to stem flood risk

A milk carton protects a new planting from herbicide spraying at the Dos Rios Ranch Preserve in Modesto, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The preserve is a restored floodplain and habitat for plants and animals. This milk carton sits on a part of the property where Santa Barbara sedge, dogbane and deer grass have been planted for California tribes which practice basket weaving to harvest. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Julie Rentner, president of the nonprofit River Partners, stands by a small grove of trees during a tour of the Dos Rios Ranch Preserve in Modesto, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. River Partners is restoring 2,100 acres of former farmland into a wildlife habitat and restore floodplain. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) A "No Trespassing" sign stands on the Dos Rios Ranch Preserve, California's largest single floodplain restoration project in Modesto, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The sign is protecting land where native trees and shrubs have been planted to draw wildlife back to the land along the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Beehives fertilize an almond tree orchard on the Rios Ranch Preserve, a floodplain and habitat restoration project, in Modesto, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. About 40 acres of almond trees sit on a part of the property that does not flood and are providing some money for the project, run by the nonprofit River Partners. When the trees reach maturity they will be ripped up and the land will be turned into a park for the public to access. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) The Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers meet on the edge of the Dos Rios Ranch Preserve in Modesto, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The 2,100-acre preserve is California's largest floodplain restoration project, designed to give the rivers room to breath and restore traditional riparian habitats. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Fremont cottonwood trees are planted in rows seen in the the Dos Rios Ranch Preserve in Modesto, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The nonprofit River Partners has planted multiple types of native trees and shrubs on the property that used to be a dairy farm, to restore it to a more traditional riverside habitat. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)