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PRESS RELEASE: Sustainable Conservation unveils roadmap tool to navigate restoration permitting in the Sacramento River Basin

August 29, 2024 319

Sustainable Conservation’s Accelerating Restoration program is excited to announce the Restoration Permitting Roadmap, a first-of-its-kind web tool designed to help...

COMMENTARY: Investing now to keep Valley safe from megafloods

Guest Contributor

Commentary

June 14, 2024 843

By Senator Alvarado-Gil, Assemblyman Heath Flora, and Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria We all know it. You shouldn’t wait to close the...

KNEE DEEP TIMES: The Good Flood, Restoring a Sonoma Creek

Nate Seltenrich

News

March 5, 2024 129

By Nate Seltenrich, Knee Deep Times Wooden fence posts poking just above the surface and tall oaks with their trunks...

GUEST COMMENTARY: Small Legal Change Has Big Implications for California’s Climate Preparedness

Guest Contributor

Commentary

December 12, 2023 249

Written by Roger Dickinson, CivicWell Policy Director and co-author of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, and Julie Rentner, River Partners...

AG ALERT: Saving rice land as habitat can help wildlife, farmers

Ag Alert

News

October 25, 2023 69

By Peter Hecht, Ag Alert As California agriculture braves a roller coaster of climate extremes, one sector—rice— faced a dramatic...

DWR NEWS: DWR and River Partners Work Together to protect communities from flooding and provide benefits to endangered species

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Agency News

October 19, 2023 114

By DWR As climate extremes continue to challenge water management, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is working with...

SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT: What role do mercury-contaminated floodplains play in methylmercury contamination in the Delta?

Maven

Delta science

October 18, 2023 133

For the September Delta Lead Scientist report, Lead Scientist Dr Laurel Larsen spotlighted the study, Effects of vegetation on methylmercury...

STORY MAP: Floodplain Restoration and Recharge Pilot Studies: Evaluating the multiple benefits of increasing floodplain inundation

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Agency News

September 14, 2023 351

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Wild baby salmon raised on a California rice farm show stunning survival to the ocean

Robin Meadows

Best of the Notebook Delta science Notebook News and Features Science

June 22, 2023 2640

When Steve Neader’s rice farm flooded last winter after three years of drought, a UC Davis research team checked to...

SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT: Yolo Bypass floodplains and fish food

Maven

Delta science Science

June 7, 2023 248

The Yolo Bypass was originally designed as a flood control measure to protect the city of Sacramento. It is also...

DWR NEWS: A Summer of (Eco)Restoration

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Agency News

August 2, 2022 8

By DWR News Summer 2022 is a season of ecological restoration for the Department of Water Resources (DWR). From June...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Update on the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project (Big Notch)

Maven

Notebook News and Features

January 25, 2022 1315

At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, the agenda included an informational briefing on the Yolo Bypass Salmonid...

BAY-DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Managed Floodplain Fish Food: Bringing Dry Side Food Webs to Wet Side Fish

Maven

Best of the Notebook Delta science

November 10, 2021 516

Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was primarily a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would...

COMMENTARY: The true fish story: How farmers are helping salmon

Ag Alert

Commentary

September 22, 2021

By Danny Merkley, California Farm Bureau Federation As a fourth-generation Sacramento Valley farmer and the California Farm Bureau’s director of...

US FWS: Revitalizing California’s floodplains benefits people and wildlife

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Agency News

April 20, 2021 1

By Meghan Snow, US Fish & Wildlife Service Throughout California’s history, rivers have been diverted, rerouted and contained by concrete....

Floodplains

PRESS RELEASE: Sustainable Conservation unveils roadmap tool to navigate restoration permitting in the Sacramento River Basin

COMMENTARY: Investing now to keep Valley safe from megafloods

KNEE DEEP TIMES: The Good Flood, Restoring a Sonoma Creek

GUEST COMMENTARY: Small Legal Change Has Big Implications for California’s Climate Preparedness

AG ALERT: Saving rice land as habitat can help wildlife, farmers

DWR NEWS: DWR and River Partners Work Together to protect communities from flooding and provide benefits to endangered species

SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT: What role do mercury-contaminated floodplains play in methylmercury contamination in the Delta?

STORY MAP: Floodplain Restoration and Recharge Pilot Studies: Evaluating the multiple benefits of increasing floodplain inundation

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Wild baby salmon raised on a California rice farm show stunning survival to the ocean

SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT: Yolo Bypass floodplains and fish food

DWR NEWS: A Summer of (Eco)Restoration

CA WATER COMMISSION: Update on the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project (Big Notch)

BAY-DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Managed Floodplain Fish Food: Bringing Dry Side Food Webs to Wet Side Fish

COMMENTARY: The true fish story: How farmers are helping salmon

US FWS: Revitalizing California’s floodplains benefits people and wildlife

COURTHOUSE NEWS: California completes largest dam removal in US history

PRESS RELEASE: Klamath Dam removal comes to a close (with before and after photos)

NOAA FISHERIES: Final step in Klamath River dam removal opens path for returning salmon

GOVERNOR NEWSOM: California makes major strides for water supplies and climate resilience over the past year

PRESS RELEASE: 30th anniversary of the historic Water Board decision to protect Mono Lake shows that additional action is needed