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,...
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...
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...
Press release from the Department of Fish and Wildlife: A little more than a year after the historic removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) scientists are seeing salmon reoccupying just...
A decades-long collaboration is giving Central California’s dwindling coho salmon population a fighting chance. By Annie Roth, UC Santa Cruz Nearly every day for the past 20 years, scientists from UC Santa Cruz and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
