From the Department of Fish and Wildlife: The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) in partnership with the County...
Salmon populations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have significantly decreased over the past century, with most populations considered endangered, threatened,...
By Andrea Medeiros, Christian Thorsberg, Leah Schrodt, Susan Sawyer, and Lena Chang, all with the US Fish and Wildlife Service Over the last 150 years, the effects of human activities such as agriculture, mining, damming, logging, and overfishing have led...
By DWR News In California’s Central Valley, spring-run Chinook salmon are a threatened species. To support recovery efforts of spring-run...
San Francisco Bay Catastrophes Are Due to Super Moons and Water Policy, Says Fisheries Expert Press release from the California...
With salmon migration blocked by Shasta Dam, a Tribe and agency scientists collaborate to bring them home. By Juliet Grable, The Revelator This story was originally published by The Revelator. Near McCloud Bridge, about 15 miles east of Interstate 5...
By Robin Meadows Two years ago, California’s winter-run chinook were dealt a devastating blow. These endangered salmon were already struggling...
The Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a plan that will give it more flexibility in helping species recover when...
By Luke Reid, Chico State Today Arthur Garcia, Cultural Resource Manager and Tribal Elder of the Wintu Tribe of Northern California, addressed a crowd of roughly 50 people near the bank of the Sacramento River in south Redding. They were...
When Steve Neader’s rice farm flooded last winter after three years of drought, a UC Davis research team checked to...
By DWR News Delta smelt are a fish that have gone from vast abundance to the brink of extinction. After...
Dozens of adult sturgeon and hundreds of other large fish including threatened Chinook salmon have moved safely from receding floodwaters within the Yolo Bypass back to the Sacramento River thanks to the coordinated operation of the Fremont Weir Adult Fish...
Written by Robin Meadows Sturgeon have been around far longer than humans—a jaw-dropping 200 million years to our comparatively short...
At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen spotlighted a study funded by...
By Susan Sawyer, US Fish and Wildlife Service Stretching from the volcanic Cascades of Southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean in California, the Klamath River is intrinsically linked to the health of its surrounding communities, businesses, and environment. These communities...