By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The dreaded, destructive golden mussel has become an urgent topic among San Joaquin Valley water...
The Flood-MAR Network’s Estimating Recharge Action Team has created a Groundwater Recharge Estimation factsheet. The factsheet serves to provide landowners...
By Nate Seltenrich, Knee Deep Times Few of us give stormwater a second thought — at least until it backs up. That’s why Sarah Minick, who has dedicated her career to the subject, is so excited that an innovative new...
The recent SnowEx campaign and the new NISAR satellite mission are lighting the way to high-resolution snowpack monitoring and improved...
BLM: Nine years of partnership pays off: Fitzhugh Creek Meadow restoration achieves dramatic results
By Jennifer Mueller, Natural Resource Specialist The BLM Applegate Field Office is celebrating a remarkable transformation at Fitzhugh Creek Meadow,...
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...
Historically, the Delta was a vast network of tidal wetlands interwoven with meandering channels. However, widespread land use changes beginning...
Press release from the Sites Project Authority The Sites Project Authority announced that during the recent atmospheric river events, Sites Reservoir would have been filling, and it is estimated that Sites could capture more than 168,000 acre-feet of water from...
by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve...
By Farshid Vahedifard, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept...
By: James Salzman, University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling city air. The famed...
Ocean data in 2025 points to roughly average conditions. By NOAA Fisheries Juvenile salmon encountered a mixed bag of ocean...
On December 31, 2025, the Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District affirmed a trial court decision against the...
The panel agreed with a trial judge that Water Resources hadn’t met its burden to show the controversial project qualifies as a modification of the existing infrastructure for which the department has authority to issue bonds. By Edvard Pettersson, Courthouse...