CAL EPA: Bi-state program continues to show results for Lake Tahoe clarity State Water Board Agency News August 16, 2024 45Pollutant control measures kept over 550,000 pounds of fine sediment out of lake in 2023 despite extended snowmelt period, new...
NOAA FISHERIES: Aging Yuba River debris dam jeopardizes threatened and endangered species NOAA Fisheries News August 1, 2024 301Partners advance a fishway around the Daguerre Point Dam on the Yuba River for salmon and sturgeon passage. The operation...
DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: A new tool can help protect California and Nevada communities from floods while preserving their water supply Desert Research Institute Science February 21, 2024 122DRI’s Anne Heggli is partnering with the National Weather Service to understand flood risk from rain-on-snow storms in real-time, protecting...
DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: First dive survey of Lake Tahoe’s lakebed finds high amounts of plastic and other litter Elyse De Franco Press Release/Other January 3, 2024 425Scientists teamed up with nonprofit Clean Up the Lake to collect and analyze litter found on the bottom of Lake...
NEWS RELEASE: Reclamation funding helps heal a river scarred by Gold Rush legacy Bureau of Reclamation News Agency News December 5, 2023 435Multiyear project rejuvenates key stretch of salmon and steelhead habitat A degraded stretch of the Yuba River in Northern California...
SJV WATER: Going to the source: Can meadow restoration beef up California’s water supplies and reduce flooding? SJV Water News November 22, 2023 217By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water California’s 280,000 acres of mountain meadows dotting the Sierra Nevada are more than pretty rest...
DFW NEWS: Invasive New Zealand Mudsnails Discovered In Lake Tahoe Department of Fish and Wildlife Agency News September 21, 2023 129Anglers, Residents and Visitors Urged to Help Prevent Further Spread From the Department of Fish & Wildlife: The California Department...
USFS: Protecting water from fire: How the Wildfire Crisis Strategy protects critical infrastructure US Forest Service News August 17, 2023 108By Benjamin Cossel, Stanislaus National Forest If they’d only known. Back in the 1850s, miners in the Sierra Nevada gold-rush...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Judge signs off on $1.7 million deal over Clean Water Act violations at California prison Courthouse News Service News August 3, 2023 199The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation denies any violations occurred but said it’s in the best interest of everyone...
USFS: Keeping the water away from fire: How the wildfire crisis strategy protects critical infrastructure US Forest Service News July 18, 2023By Benjamin Cossel, Stanislaus National Forest If they’d only known. Back in the 1850s, miners in the Sierra Nevada gold-rush...
STANFORD NEWS: How Sierra Nevada snowpack confounds Central Valley groundwater readings Stanford University News June 5, 2023 73By Adam Hadhazy Billions of tons of snow piled atop the Sierra Nevada Mountains can cause parts of the Central...
STANFORD NEWS: Stanford-led study reveals a fifth of California’s Sierra Nevada conifer forests are stranded in habitats that have grown too warm for them Stanford University News February 28, 2023 85Like an old man suddenly aware the world has moved on without him, the conifer tree native to lower elevations...
FIVE QUESTIONS: Melinda Booth, South Yuba River Citizens League Maven Notebook News and Features September 21, 2022 180The mission of the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL – pronounced circle) is to unites the community to protect...
PACIFIC FOREST TRUST: Seeing the Forest for the Water Maven Best of the NotebookWebinars April 20, 2022 280When an ecologist, a geographer, and an engineer walk into a watershed bar, what do they talk about? Most of...
NASA/JPL: Sierras lost water weight, grew taller during drought NASA/JPL News December 13, 2017Loss of water from Sierra Nevada rocks caused the California mountains to rise almost an inch during the recent drought....
