The Willits Bypass Mitigation Project is currently the largest active public wetlands mitigation project in the State of California. In 2015, MCRCD assumed long term management responsibility for the 2,087-acres of wet meadow, stream corridors, and oak woodlands. MCRCD staff manage and monitor grazing impacts to listed species, ecosystem function, and overall biological diversity. A non-wasting endowment through the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation is a permanent source of funding for management and monitoring of mitigation lands by MCRCD which will go on in perpetuity. Work focuses on Creating, enhancing, and improving sensitive native habitats primarily riparian corridors and wetlands.