Faced with a warming climate, lawmakers must update a 1992 federal law that established water and wildlife regulations for the Central Valley. Commentary by Congressman Jared Huffman and former Congressman George Miller Thirty years ago, President George H.W. Bush signed...
By DWR News Summer 2022 is a season of ecological restoration for the Department of Water Resources (DWR). From June 23 to July 14, 2022, DWR and partners celebrated four multi-benefit restoration projects taking place in California’s Central Valley including...
Written exclusively for Maven’s Notebook by Robin Meadows When California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Greg Gerstenberg saw the first nutria caught in a duck club pond near Los Banos in 2017, he had never even heard of these...
Dr. John Durand is a research scientist at UC Davis, where he studies estuarine food webs and fishes. He has conducted multiple studies throughout the Delta and currently helps run a long-term monitoring project, the Suisun Marsh fish study, which...
By Justin Fredrickson, Ag Alert Project operators recently explained unprecedented emergency plans for cold-water temperature management to support endangered salmon...
When an ecologist, a geographer, and an engineer walk into a watershed bar, what do they talk about? Most of us recognize that when you ask resource managers, ‘What do you need out of forests? What do you value out...
