Posts

July 20, 2016

At Capitol Weekly’s Water 2016 conference, a panel discusses the fiscal impacts of the California Water Fix One the largest...

Headwaters Health: Obstacles and opportunities to advance forest management

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Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

July 19, 2016

Panel at ACWA’s Spring Conference discusses forest restoration, biomass power plants, wildfires, and other upper watershed management issues Experts agree...

California’s water leaders rely on Maven’s Notebook… and Maven’s Notebook relies on you!

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Website announcements

July 17, 2016

Your support is needed to help keep this critical resource in operation The drought shows no signs of abating, and...

Update on DWR’s Reservoir Reoperation Study

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Notebook News and Features Water project operations

July 13, 2016

DWR’s Ajay Goyal tells the Delta Stewardship Council that there are benefits to reoperation of the state’s system, but they...

CASGEM Report: DWR/Local Groundwater Monitoring Partnership Expands and Improves

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Groundwater News

July 13, 2016

From the Department of Water Resources: The latest update on California’s efforts to track groundwater shows that 94 percent of...

This just in … State, Federal Agencies Launch Integrated, Multi-Pronged Effort to Help Delta Smelt

CA Natural Resources Agency

Policy and regulation

July 12, 2016

Strategies Aimed at Improving Survival of Endangered Fish From the California Natural Resources Agency: Under a comprehensive strategy released today,...

California Water Fix and summertime water operations discussed at Metropolitan committee meeting

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

July 12, 2016

The Special Committee on the Bay Delta hears an update on the California Water Fix project, including the upcoming hearings,...

This just in … Westlands Water District and the San Luis & Delta Mendota Water Authority file suit against Reclamation

Westlands Water District

Water project operations

July 8, 2016

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Fails to Consider the Environmental Impacts of Biological Opinions Which Have Been Devastating Communities, they say...

Delta smelt symposium, part 4: Panel discussion: What is the path forward among considerable uncertainty?

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Delta science Fish and wildlife Notebook News and Features

July 8, 2016

Panel of experts share their visions and options for the future of the Delta and longfin smelt Coverage of the...

Delta smelt symposium, part 3: The path forward: Climate change, recovery planning, and restoration

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Delta science Fish and wildlife Notebook News and Features

July 7, 2016

Presenters discuss climate change, extinction, artificial propagation and stocking, and tidal marsh restoration Coverage of the Delta and longfin smelt...

Delta smelt symposium, part 2: Causal links to population declines and data gaps

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Delta science Fish and wildlife Notebook News and Features

July 6, 2016

Could it be water exports, predation, food web, contaminants, drought … ? Coverage of the Delta and longfin smelt symposium,...

Symposium coverage, part 1: Delta and longfin smelt: Is extinction inevitable?

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Delta science Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

July 5, 2016

Part 1 of coverage of symposium covers what we know and don’t know about the Delta and longfin smelt Is...

Happy Fourth of July!

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Website announcements

July 4, 2016

No posts today, but it’s not for my lack of trying Dear Readers, Happy Fourth of July! I won’t be...

The Bay Institute responds to Sacramento River Settlement Contractors

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Water project operations

July 1, 2016

Sacramento River Settlement Contractors will receive full deliveries of water this year at the expense of the salmon runs, they...

This just in … Sacramento River Settlement Contractors frustrated by delay in implementing the Sacramento River operations plan for summer

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Water project operations

June 30, 2016

Proposed Shasta Reservoir Releases Focuses Solely on Temperature for Winter Run Eggs; SRSCs Call for More Holistic Approach to Managing...

California Water Fix: Paying for the Delta tunnels

Headwaters Health: Obstacles and opportunities to advance forest management

California’s water leaders rely on Maven’s Notebook… and Maven’s Notebook relies on you!

Update on DWR’s Reservoir Reoperation Study

CASGEM Report: DWR/Local Groundwater Monitoring Partnership Expands and Improves

This just in … State, Federal Agencies Launch Integrated, Multi-Pronged Effort to Help Delta Smelt

California Water Fix and summertime water operations discussed at Metropolitan committee meeting

This just in … Westlands Water District and the San Luis & Delta Mendota Water Authority file suit against Reclamation

Delta smelt symposium, part 4: Panel discussion: What is the path forward among considerable uncertainty?

Delta smelt symposium, part 3: The path forward: Climate change, recovery planning, and restoration

Delta smelt symposium, part 2: Causal links to population declines and data gaps

Symposium coverage, part 1: Delta and longfin smelt: Is extinction inevitable?

Happy Fourth of July!

The Bay Institute responds to Sacramento River Settlement Contractors

This just in … Sacramento River Settlement Contractors frustrated by delay in implementing the Sacramento River operations plan for summer

DAILY DIGEST, 9/29: Happy New Water Year 2026!; Risk-taking is key to saving CA’s freshwater species; Salmon habitat restoration priorities in the Lower Russian River; Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers; and more …