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...
Reclamation, Ducks Unlimited and Biggs-West Gridley Water District Partner to Bring Water to Key Habitat When It’s Needed By Gary Pitzer, Bureau of Reclamation California’s many wildlife refuges thrive on an adequate supply of water, including Gray Lodge Wildlife Area...
At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, the agenda included an informational briefing on the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project, also known as the Big Notch. The project will create critical floodplain habitat for...