NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Moving beyond crisis management for winter-run chinook Robin Meadows Best of the NotebookScience July 25, 2023 529By Robin Meadows Two years ago, California’s winter-run chinook were dealt a devastating blow. These endangered salmon were already struggling...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: California’s unnatural river flows threaten aquatic life—here’s a (partial) fix Robin Meadows Best of the NotebookNewsScience July 13, 2023 953By Robin Meadows As a New York Times columnist once quipped, “California’s water system might have been invented by a...
C-WIN PRESS RELEASE: Why is the Bureau of Reclamation Driving Salmon to Extinction? Press Release/Notice Press Release/Other July 7, 2023 461Study shows Bureau of Reclamation is denying the state’s salmon the water they need to survive – even in wet...
DWR NEWS: DWR Gets Hands-on with Thiamine Deficiency in Spring-run Salmon Department of Water Resources (DWR) Delta scienceScience July 7, 2023 149From the Department of Water Resources: California’s Central Valley is home to four runs of Chinook salmon: spring, fall, late-fall,...
CHICO STATE: New Channel Teeming With Fish Thanks to Impressive Teamwork Chico State Today NewsScience June 26, 2023 259By Luke Reid, Chico State Today Arthur Garcia, Cultural Resource Manager and Tribal Elder of the Wintu Tribe of Northern...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Wild baby salmon raised on a California rice farm show stunning survival to the ocean Robin Meadows Best of the NotebookDelta scienceNewsScience June 22, 2023 2626When Steve Neader’s rice farm flooded last winter after three years of drought, a UC Davis research team checked to...
NOW AVAILABLE: Final 2023 Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan State Water Board ANNOUNCEMENTS June 9, 2023 61From the State Water Resources Control Board: Now posted on the State Water Resources Control Board website is the Final...
CDFW NEWS: Improved passage lets threatened sturgeon, salmon and other species return to spawn in Sacramento River Department of Fish and Wildlife Delta scienceNewsScience June 7, 2023 31Dozens of adult sturgeon and hundreds of other large fish including threatened Chinook salmon have moved safely from receding floodwaters...
COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: Fight over Oregon’s Klamath water can stay in federal court, Ninth Circuit rules Courthouse News Service News June 5, 2023 9A Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the Klamath Irrigation District in its attempt to move a dispute over the allocation...
DWR News: DWR Uses Genetic Technology to Help Identify Endangered Fish Department of Water Resources (DWR) News June 1, 2023 10From DWR News: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) is using the latest genetic technologies to more accurately identify endangered...
US FWS: Tribes on the Klamath River struggle to save their salmon and way of life in the face of a changing climate US Fish and Wildlife Service Agency News May 24, 2023 11By Susan Sawyer, US Fish and Wildlife Service Stretching from the volcanic Cascades of Southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: California touts $60 million plan to revive Yuba River for salmon Courthouse News Service News May 16, 2023 20By Natalie Hanson, Courthouse News Service California’s Yuba River, a vital breeding ground for salmon and other fish, could enjoy...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Environmentalists sue PG&E for damage to Eel River fisheries Courthouse News Service News May 16, 2023 29PG&E can’t demolish two dams on the Eel River fast enough for Chinook salmon and steelhead trout. By Eric Burkett,...
NEWS RELEASE: Agreement reopens Yuba River to salmon and sturgeon, launching ambitious river restoration Press Release/Notice NewsScience May 16, 2023 13Upgraded facilities and protections promote the return of Chinook to North Yuba River By CA Department of Fish and Wildlife...
USBR NEWS: Reclamation takes advantage of full Shasta reservoir to release flows for migrating salmon Bureau of Reclamation News Delta scienceNewsScience May 8, 2023 27Scientists aim to increase their data set from spring pulse flows By Gary Pitzer, Bureau of Reclamation Prior to the...