NOTEBOOK FEATURE: How the fight against Auburn Dam advanced flood control in California Robin Meadows Notebook News and FeaturesPlanning and management September 24, 2024by Robin Meadows In 1990, Gary Estes moved to Auburn, a town of nearly 14,000 in the Sierra Nevada foothills...
USBR: Reclamation, key partners build a haven for iconic fish species on the American River Bureau of Reclamation News Ecosystems September 12, 2024From the Bureau of Reclamation: It’s fall on the lower American River, and that means more habitat restoration work to...
USBR NEWS: Keeping Folsom Reservoir’s cold water in the bank until it’s needed Bureau of Reclamation News Water project operations March 20, 2023By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation California’s winter storms have blasted the Sierra Nevada with a thick blanket of...
CDFW Testing ‘Parentage-Based Tagging’ of Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Department of Fish and Wildlife Delta scienceFish and wildlife March 16, 2023By the Department of Fish & Wildlife: Under cover of darkness and with a series of cold, late-winter storms building,...
DFW NEWS: CDFW Using Winter Storms to Help Increase Survival of Hatchery Released Chinook Salmon Department of Fish and Wildlife Science March 15, 2023By CDFW News Anticipating good conditions for the survival of hatchery-produced Chinook salmon throughout the Sacramento River and tributaries, the...
USBR NEWS: Enhancing Salmon and Steelhead Habitat — One Truckload At a Time Bureau of Reclamation News Ecosystems September 9, 2022Supported By Reclamation Funding, Crews Are Transforming a River Channel By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation Each weekday, big,...
GUEST COMMENTARY: San Joaquin County Deserves a Fair Chance to Develop its American River Water Right Application Guest Contributor CommentaryWater rights and water law October 18, 2021Commentary written by San Joaquin County Supervisors Chuck Winn and Kathy Miller Last month, the State Water Resources Control Board...
GUEST ARTICLE: Why the Sacramento region’s watershed is ‘super,’ and a buffer against climate change Guest Contributor Climate changeCommentary March 8, 2021Guest article written by Jeff Harris, a council member for the city of Sacramento and Bruce Houdesheldt, vice mayor of...
ACWA CONFERENCE: Adapting to Flood, Fire, and Drought: A Case Study of the American River Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPlanning and managementWildfires and watersheds August 26, 2020[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The Governor’s Water Resilience Portfolio Initiative underscores the need for communities to maintain and diversify water supplies and to...
DR. SARAH YARNELL: Ecological Response to the Unregulated Spring Flow Regime in the Sierra Nevada Maven Science July 16, 2017Dr. Sarah Yarnell is Associate Project Scientist at the Center for Watershed Sciences, and her presentation was drawn from research...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Reclamation Increasing Releases into Lower American River for Inflow Management Bureau of Reclamation News ANNOUNCEMENTS March 24, 2017The Bureau of Reclamation is scheduled to incrementally increase releases below Nimbus Dam starting Monday at 8 a.m., from 5,000...
