Friends of the River (FOR) and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), two of California’s oldest and most respected water...
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By Andrea Medeiros, Christian Thorsberg, Leah Schrodt, Susan Sawyer, and Lena Chang, all with the US Fish and Wildlife Service Over the last 150 years, the effects of human activities such as agriculture, mining, damming, logging, and overfishing have led...
The bureau claimed the state’s standards — which it called discriminatory — would hamper its operation of the New Melones...
Changes to pricing, timing contemplated for potential 2024 reboot By Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism Cassie Cerise lives on her family’s...
By Robin Meadows In 2015, when California was deep into a severe drought, state Senate Bill 88 tightened requirements for reporting water use. This posed a challenge for growers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta’s 415,000 acres of farmland, where many...
By DWR News In California’s Central Valley, spring-run Chinook salmon are a threatened species. To support recovery efforts of spring-run...
Bound by a recent Supreme Court decision, a new Biden administration rule weakens Clean Water Act protections for millions of...
At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Associate Deputy Executive Officer Harriet Lai Ross updated the Council members on the Delta Adapts project. Delta Adapts is a two-phase initiative. The first phase was the vulnerability assessment, completed two...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The state approved funding for a range of floodplain projects in the San Joaquin Valley,...
Frontline communities in Lithium Valley are cautiously optimistic about the economic potential, but are also concerned about the health and...
By Rebekah Kearn, Courthouse News Service Colorful awnings and tents lined the shores of the Kern River on a Saturday afternoon at Riverside Park in the small town of Kernville in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. Even in town, the...
By Tiffany Plate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) In 1880, a water-powered turbine generated its first spark of electricity. It...
New Patagonia & Friends of the River Study Estimates the Proposed Dam’s Annual Emissions Press release from Friends of the...
From the Office of Environmental Health & Hazard Assessment: OEHHA has released plain-language summaries of the indicators in the 2022 Indicators of Climate Change in California report. The indicators describe trends and conditions relating to climate change, its drivers, and...