COURTHOUSE NEWS: Biologist asks judge to limit California dam’s impact on endangered salmon Courthouse News Service News October 18, 2023 167U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said she could not issue an order recommending operational changes to the Coyote Valley...
PRESS RELEASE: Baykeeper Puts Federal Agency on Notice: Will Sue to Uphold Endangered Species Act Maven News October 12, 2023 112Fish and Wildlife Missed Congressional Deadline to Protect Longfin Smelt Press release from the San Francisco Baykeeper: San Francisco Baykeeper...
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: Environmental groups prevail in California steelhead case Press Release/Notice News October 2, 2023 309Supreme Court Decision Upholds Ruling that Twitchell Dam Operators Must Comply with Federal Law to Protect Endangered Fish Press release...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: California Fish and Wildlife director still on the hook in water rights suit Courthouse News Service News October 2, 2023 1518Three claims remain against Charlton Bonham, executive director of the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife, and certain others can...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Judge finds feds violated law by favoring irrigators in the Klamath Basin Courthouse News Service News September 12, 2023 216Monday’s order upholds the notion that irrigators’ rights come after the Bureau of Reclamation’s obligations to protected fish species and...
THE REVELATOR: A lifeline for winter-run chinook salmon The Revelator News August 7, 2023 235With salmon migration blocked by Shasta Dam, a Tribe and agency scientists collaborate to bring them home. By Juliet Grable,...
AGU: Many of California’s threatened species live in reused water — for better or worse American Geophysical Union Science July 27, 2023 168From the American Geophysical Union In the parched west, reusing water is a must. But scientists are still working to...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Moving beyond crisis management for winter-run chinook Robin Meadows Best of the NotebookScience July 25, 2023 543By Robin Meadows Two years ago, California’s winter-run chinook were dealt a devastating blow. These endangered salmon were already struggling...
PRESS RELEASE: Judge: Federal Shasta River “Safe Harbor” coho salmon program violates Endangered Species Act Press Release/Notice Press Release/Other July 13, 2023 285From the Western Environmental Law Center, Friends of the Shasta River, and the Environmental Protection Information Center: Late yesterday, the...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: California’s unnatural river flows threaten aquatic life—here’s a (partial) fix Robin Meadows Best of the NotebookNewsScience July 13, 2023 972By Robin Meadows As a New York Times columnist once quipped, “California’s water system might have been invented by a...
C-WIN PRESS RELEASE: Why is the Bureau of Reclamation Driving Salmon to Extinction? Press Release/Notice Press Release/Other July 7, 2023 461Study shows Bureau of Reclamation is denying the state’s salmon the water they need to survive – even in wet...
DWR NEWS: DWR Gets Hands-on with Thiamine Deficiency in Spring-run Salmon Department of Water Resources (DWR) Delta scienceScience July 7, 2023 149From the Department of Water Resources: California’s Central Valley is home to four runs of Chinook salmon: spring, fall, late-fall,...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Feds move forward on introducing imperiled species outside historic habitat Courthouse News Service News July 1, 2023 49The Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a plan that will give it more flexibility in helping species recover when...
COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: Fight over Oregon’s Klamath water can stay in federal court, Ninth Circuit rules Courthouse News Service News June 5, 2023 9A Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the Klamath Irrigation District in its attempt to move a dispute over the allocation...
US FWS: Tribes on the Klamath River struggle to save their salmon and way of life in the face of a changing climate US Fish and Wildlife Service Agency News May 24, 2023 15By Susan Sawyer, US Fish and Wildlife Service Stretching from the volcanic Cascades of Southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean...