USGS and its partners are working tirelessly to monitor suckers and understand why they are disappearing from lakes and streams...
By the By Western Ecological Research Center (WERC), USGS The Central Valley of California provides important habitat for waterbirds (waterfowl, shorebirds, and wading birds). With more than 90% of the historical wetlands in the Central Valley lost due to agricultural...
From the US Army Corps of Engineers: As dawn cracks into the early morning sky, environmental manager Ashley Lopez and...
Ocean data in 2025 points to roughly average conditions. By NOAA Fisheries Juvenile salmon encountered a mixed bag of ocean...
By Western Ecological Research Center (WERC), USGS California’s breeding populations of dabbling ducks have declined and the factors contributing to these declines have not been identified. However, duckling survival to fledging is a key factor influencing waterfowl population growth. After...
Discovery in isolated pool prompts fish rescue by Pinoleville Pomo Nation and CDFW From the Department of Fish and Wildlife...
Restored habitat and water management offer prime salmon spawning conditions in Putah Creek by Solano County Water Agency/UC Davis News...
By Toni Lyn Morelli, UMass Amherst; U.S. Geological Survey and Diana Stralberg, University of Alberta The idea began in California’s Sierra Nevada, a towering spine of rock and ice where rising temperatures and the decline of snowpack are transforming ecosystems,...
By Teddi Lynn Chichester, Earth Island Journal This story originally appeared in Earth Island Journal. Bright-yellow excavators, swathes of ocher...
By Laurel Neme, Mongabay Key points: California’s green sturgeon and white sturgeon face numerous threats from dams, harmful algal blooms...
The Center for Biological Diversity, a group petitioning for the protections, lambasted the Trump administration for the decision. By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service The federal government on Monday denied listing the Western Coast Chinook salmon as threatened or endangered...
New monitoring shows the Palos Verdes Reef restoration project has increased fish biomass by over 150 percent just 4 years...
Endangered Species Act protections move salmon toward recovery. From NOAA Fisheries Most Pacific Coast salmon and steelhead listed under the...
Research detects water temperatures that may affect salmon survival. By NOAA Fisheries Many thousands of fall-run Chinook salmon migrated beneath the Golden Gate Bridge into the upper Sacramento River to spawn this fall. About 100 of the adult fish carried...