SIERRA NEVADA CONSERVANCY: Advancing landscape-scale resilience in the Upper Mokelumne River watershed Sierra Nevada Conservancy News January 6, 2025 96From the Sierra Nevada Conservancy: A recent grant of nearly $4 million from the Wildlife Conservation Board to the Upper...
PRESS RELEASE: Central Valley Water Board announces initial results from E. coli tracking study at Nevada County’s Wolf Creek State Water Board News December 6, 2024 224From the Central Valley Water Board: The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP)...
PRESERVING OUR WATERSHEDS: How Placer County Water Agency and Yuba Water Agency are reducing wildfire risk to protect water supplies Guest Contributor News November 12, 2024 1131By Jim Peifer, Executive Director, Regional Water Authority Though summer is behind us, the risk of wildfires persists in our...
USGS: New maps identify legacy mercury contamination in the Sierra Nevada USGS News October 30, 2024 243A series of USGS interactive maps have recently been published. The maps identify locations and levels of mercury contamination resulting...
CAL EPA: Bi-state program continues to show results for Lake Tahoe clarity State Water Board Agency News August 16, 2024 47Pollutant 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 315Partners 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 124DRI’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 453Multiyear project rejuvenates key stretch of salmon and steelhead habitat A degraded stretch of the Yuba River in Northern California...
SIERRA NEVADA CONSERVANCY: Meadow restoration in the Sierra-Cascade—keeping the momentum flowing Sierra Nevada Conservancy Agency News November 28, 2023 8By the Sierra Nevada Conservancy: There’s a lot to love about meadows in the Sierra-Cascade region and recent momentum in...
SJV WATER: Going to the source: Can meadow restoration beef up California’s water supplies and reduce flooding? SJV Water News November 22, 2023 221By 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 109By 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 200The 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...