Central Valley Project Improvement Act Constructs Key Habitat Features on the Sacramento River By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation Along the banks of the Sacramento River near Redding, the ancestral home of Chinook salmon, a major project is making...
NOAA and partners have released a plan for restoring habitat for salmon and steelhead in key areas of the Klamath River watershed. By NOAA Fisheries A decades-long effort to remove four dams on the lower Klamath River in California and...
The mission of the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL – pronounced circle) is to unites the community to protect and restore the Yuba River watershed. Originally founded in 1983 in an effort to protect the river from dams, SYRCL...
By Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology The zebra mussel has been a poster child for invasive species ever since it unleashed economic and ecological havoc on the Great Lakes in the late 1980s. Yet despite intensive efforts to control...
Improved floodplain access aims to boost habitat and migratory routes for salmon, steelhead and sturgeon From the Bureau of Reclamation: When the flood protection plan for Sacramento was conceived and constructed, the aim was to divert Sacramento River flood flows...
