NOTEBOOK FEATURE: A closer look at how predation and flow impact salmon survival Alastair Bland Fish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features July 16, 2025Scarce flows, hungry predators, warm water, and politics conspire against salmon in the Delta, but which is the dominant stressor?...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: South Bay sport fish not such good eating Alastair Bland Water quality June 18, 2025By Alastair Bland Long ago, the quiet shores of southern San Francisco Bay featured rich wetlands, streams thick with salmon...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: The longfin smelt joins the celebrated ranks of the federal ESA – but can it recover? Alastair Bland Delta scienceFish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features December 10, 2024By Alastair Bland Federal wildlife officials formally listed the San Francisco Estuary longfin smelt as an endangered species in July....
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Here today, forgotten tomorrow: How shifting baselines transform nature and challenge restoration Alastair Bland Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation September 30, 2024Current water policies in the Delta encourage “shifting baselines” that gradually degrade ecosystems. But ongoing work on the Klamath River...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Trying yet again for fish friendlier exports from the Delta Alastair Bland Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesWater project operations August 12, 2024A new kind of Delta diversion could extract water at a slow enough rate, and across a wide enough area,...
FEATURE: A bigger, older fish gasping for more water: White sturgeon slipping away Alastair Bland Delta scienceFish and wildlife July 11, 2024By Alastair Bland Another fish native to the San Francisco Bay estuary may be joining the queue filing toward extinction....
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Are farm fields a hidden source of microplastics? Alastair Bland AgricultureBest of the NotebookNotebook News and Features May 30, 2024By Alastair Bland I first tuned in to murmurs about plastic pollution in the late 1980s, when my mom would...
