West Coast Project Library

On this page, you will find downloadable reports and other documents generated by restoration projects along the West Coast. We have organized the reports by project location, from north to south along the coast. These documents can also be accessed from the project description pages on the Story Map.

Geo ID	Project	Location	Reports and Resources (.pdf)
WA03	Fisherman Bay Living Shorelines	Fisherman Bay, WA	Project Brochure
WA05	Swinomish Olympia Oyster Restoration	Skagit and Similk Bays, WA	Project Monitoring Report 2015 Monitoring Plan 2015 Interpretive Sign Interpretive Sign
WA06	Clallam County Olympia Oyster Restoration	Sequim Bay, WA	Project Report 2016 Project Report 2017 Project Report 2018 Quality Assurance Project Plan 2018
WA07	Discovery Bay Olympia Oyster Project	Discovery Bay, WA	Survey Data and Summary Report 2018
WA09	MRC Quilcene Bay Olympia Oyster Project	Quilcene Bay, WA	Survey Data and Summary Report 2018
WA12	Mission Creek / Belfair Oyster Project	Hood Canal, WA	Project Report 2015 Published article (2016) - Experimental test of oyster restoration within eelgrass Published article (2017) - Scales of recruitment variability in warming waters: Comparing native and introduced oysters
OR05	Glenbrook Nickel Olympia Oyster Project	Coos Bay, OR	Project Memorandum 2010
OR06	Isthmus Slough Bridge Olympia Oyster Project	Coos Bay, OR	Project Report 2011
OR07	South Slough Estuary Olympia Oyster Restoration	South Slough, OR	Project Report 2010 Figures for Project Report 2010
OR08	South Slough Estuary Olympia Oyster Restoration Relocation Project	South Slough Estuary, OR	Project Report 2014
CA02	Restoration of Native Oysters in Central California	Tomales Bay, OR	Published article (2006) - Disturbance influences oyster community richness and evenness, but not diversity Published article (2009) - Invasive species cause large-scale loss of native California oyster habitat by disrupting... Published article (2009) - Coastal oceanographic processes influence the growth and size of a key estuarine species... Published article (2018) - The dynamics of open populations: integration of top–down, bottom–up and supply–side influences...
CA05	San Francisco Bay Creosote Piling Removal and Pacific Herring Restoration Project	San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, CA	Project Report/Description 2015 Technical Memorandum 2015
CA06 and CA09	San Francisco Bay Living Shorelines: Near-shore Linkages Project - SAN RAFAEL and HAYWARD	San Francisco Bay, San Rafael and Hayward, CA	Project Design 2012 Project Report 2016
CA08	Tiburon Audubon Center Native Oyster Restoration Project	San Francisco Bay, CA	Project Monitoring Report 2005 McGowan & Harris workshop presentation McGowan & Harris poster presentation 2005 Harris master's thesis (2004) - Distribution and limiting factors of Ostrea Conchaphila in San Francisco Bay
CA11	Elkhorn Slough Native Oyster Restoration	Elkhorn Slough, CA	Published article (2016) - Restoration of native oysters in a highly invaded estuary Wasson workshop presentation 2018
CA12	Native Oyster Restoration in Ventura County	Mugu Lagoon, CA	Project Report 2009 Project Report 2013
CA13	Restoration of Native Oyster in Alamitos Bay	Alamitos Bay, CA	Project Report 2015 K-12 Curricular Materials Champieux master's thesis (2015) - Impacts of a constructed oyster bed on infaunal invertebrate communities in Jack Dunster... Briley master's thesis (2015) - Response of eelgrass (Zostera Marina) to an adjacent Olympia oyster restoration project
CA14	Upper Newport Bay Living Shorelines Project	Newport Bay, CA	Project Report 2016 Wood master's thesis (2018) - The effect of sedimentation on oysters (Ostrea lurida) adjacent to eelgrass beds (Zostera marina)
CA15	Newport Bay Pilot Oyster Restoration Project	Newport Bay, CA	Published article (2015) - Exploring restoration methods for the Olympia Oyster Ostrea lurida Carpenter, 1864: effects of...