Largest North American freshwater fish needs protection from state and federal mismanagement Press release San Francisco Baykeeper, California Sportfishing Protection...
From the Department of Water Resources: In a collaborative effort to increase the sustainability of California’s salmon populations, the California...
By Mark DeGraff, Knee Deep Times Landslides. Falling trees. Scorched forests. These are just a few ways the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fire transformed habitats in the Santa Cruz Mountains. But scientists are finding that the blaze’s effects on the...
The proposed habitat is over 90,000 acres and includes portions of Contra Costa, Napa, Sacramento, Solano and Sonoma counties. By...
Press release from the Center for Biological Diversity: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to designate 91,630 acres...
Conservation groups are working with Central Valley farmers to restore critical habitat for wetland birds struggling to subsist on a fraction of their historic wintering grounds. But finding the right spots is challenging. By Liza Gross, Inside Climate News This...
California hatcheries lend a helping hand to Battle Creek fall run Chinook salmon. By the US FWS For hundreds of...
By NOAA Fisheries NOAA Fisheries has completed 5-year reviews of the recovery progress and prospects of four salmon and steelhead...
From the Bureau of Reclamation: The fish along this stretch of the Stanislaus River practically jump on the line, and that’s a good thing for the people that have gathered here on a recent fall morning. The species in question,...
By NOAA Fisheries The San Joaquin River Restoration Program (SJRRP) is a long-term collaborative program to restore flows in the...
By Alastair Bland Federal wildlife officials formally listed the San Francisco Estuary longfin smelt as an endangered species in July....
“What data we have suggests that the predation is a huge factor that will probably preclude any recovery of salmonids no matter what other management actions we take within this region.” At last week’s ACWA Fall Conference, one of the...
With rising temperatures and a greater demand on water resources, NOAA Fisheries has identified reintroduction, or the intentional movement and...
CDFW releases 270,000 fall-run Chinook salmon into Fall Creek, the first yearling hatchery salmon release following historic dam removal The...
By Sarah Whichello, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Research Participant with EPA. Estuaries are waterbodies where freshwater from the uplands mixes with the salty waters of the open ocean. The bays, inlets and tidal rivers along a coastline that comprise estuarine...