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COURTHOUSE NEWS: New California water permit seeks to balance water delivery with environmental protections

November 5, 2024

Part of the permit’s implementation will include methods for environmental restoration and spawning projects to benefit endangered species like the...

PRESS RELEASE: New operating permit issued for California’s State Water Project to preserve water supply while protecting endangered species

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Fish and wildlife Water project operations

November 5, 2024

A balanced approach is key to benefiting California’s endangered fish species through habitat restoration, improved flow measures, monitoring, and hatchery...

CAL MATTERS: Is a new plan for delivering Delta water worse than Trump’s rules? Environmentalists say yes.

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation Water project operations

October 25, 2024

Growers support a federal and state proposal for operating California’s massive systems that send river water south. But it could...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Here today, forgotten tomorrow: How shifting baselines transform nature and challenge restoration

Alastair Bland

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

September 30, 2024

Current water policies in the Delta encourage “shifting baselines” that gradually degrade ecosystems. But ongoing work on the Klamath River...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Feds eye rare California fish for endangered species protections

Courthouse News Service

Policy and regulation

August 8, 2024

The Long Valley speckled dace struggle to survive in just one spring and a small creek east of Mammoth Lakes....

COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: Bay-Delta longfin smelt wins Endangered Species Act protections

Courthouse News Service

Ecosystems

July 30, 2024

Longfin smelt were once abundant in the San Francisco Bay estuary, but populations have declined more than 99% from 1980s...

PRESS RELEASE: Federal government declares San Francisco Bay longfin smelt “endangered”

San Francisco Baykeeper

Fish and wildlife

July 29, 2024

Listing will require new safeguards for fish, SF Bay and Delta ecosystems Press release from the San Francisco Baykeeper The...

FEATURE: A bigger, older fish gasping for more water: White sturgeon slipping away

Alastair Bland

Delta science Fish and wildlife

July 11, 2024

By Alastair Bland Another fish native to the San Francisco Bay estuary may be joining the queue filing toward extinction....

C-WIN: Fisheries expert: Fish & Game Commission’s move to list white sturgeon is a red herring

CA Water Impact Network (C-WIN)

Fish and wildlife

June 27, 2024

Simultaneous Angling Closure Fails to Acknowledge the Real Reason for the Decline: Water Diversions From the California Water Impact Network...

CAL MATTERS: This giant freshwater fish — North America’s largest — gains California protection

Cal Matters

Fish and wildlife

June 20, 2024

Die-offs from algae blooms in San Francisco and Delta water diversions have left a giant, shark-like, prehistoric creature at risk....

AG ALERT: Klamath Basin leaders call for full water allocation

Ag Alert

Agriculture

June 12, 2024

By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Due to significant economic impacts to farmers and others in the Klamath Basin, county leaders...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: California water officials mostly cleared in drought-related water rights saga

Courthouse News Service

Water rights and water law

May 22, 2024

A single claim involving the Endangered Species Act remained intact. By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service Three California companies pushing...

AG ALERT: Steelhead protections could bring new water restrictions

Ag Alert

Policy and regulation

May 8, 2024

By Christine Souza A state determination that Southern California steelhead trout merit additional protections could mean tighter water restrictions, according...