Pacific Flyway Archives

PRESS RELEASE: Groups urge water boards to investigate elevated toxic selenium releases to refuges, San Joaquin River, and SF Bay-Delta Estuary

April 11, 2024

Press release from the Center for Biological Diversity and the Planning and Conservation League: Writing to three water boards April...

PRESS RELEASE: Groups and Tribe Urge Regulators to Control Toxic Pollution from Selenium

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulation Water quality

April 3, 2024

From the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance In an April 1, 2024 letter to three water boards, fishing and conservation groups...

AG ALERT: Waterfowl flock again to valley rice fields

Ag Alert

Agriculture

January 31, 2024

By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert The return of fully planted rice crops to the Sacramento Valley following years of drought...

USBR NEWS: Watering up a major piece of the Pacific Flyway

Bureau of Reclamation News

Fish and wildlife

November 21, 2023

Reclamation funding improves delivery system at Gray Lodge Wildlife Area From the Bureau of Reclamation: In the shadow of the...

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

Ag Alert

Agriculture

October 25, 2023

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

CAL MATTERS: The Bay-Delta ecosystem is collapsing. California just unveiled rival rescue plans

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

September 29, 2023

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CAL MATTERS: ‘Everyone loses’: Sacramento Valley struggles to survive unprecedented water cuts

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

May 23, 2022

Sacramento Valley growers protected for decades by their water rights are suffering for the first time during this record-breaking drought....

USBR: Work Progressing Towards Providing Full Capacity CVPIA Supplies to Gray Lodge Wildlife Area

Bureau of Reclamation News

Ecosystems

March 30, 2022

Reclamation, Ducks Unlimited and Biggs-West Gridley Water District Partner to Bring Water to Key Habitat When It’s Needed By Gary...

AG ALERT: Rice farmers enlisted to sustain Pacific Flyway birds

Ag Alert

Fish and wildlife

January 19, 2022

By Edgar Sanchez, Ag Alert Sixth-generation rice grower Jeff Gallagher is perpetually surrounded by birds on the Sutter County farm...

CAL MATTERS: Winged warning: Migrating birds hit hard by California’s drought

Cal Matters

Fish and wildlife

November 10, 2021

As the drought dries up California’s wetlands, traveling birds such as ducks, geese and eagles are struggling to survive and...

FEATURE: Reactivating our floodplains: A new way forward

Maven

Best of the Notebook Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

August 21, 2019

Panel of experts discuss how reactivating the floodplains can provide habitat and food for native fish and for migrating birds,...

Special issue of San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science focuses on the Central Valley Joint Venture

Guest Contributor

Delta science

March 31, 2017

The latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science journal is now available online. This special issue focuses...

California Water Policy Seminar Series: Farms, floods, fowl and fish on the Yolo Bypass: Can we all get along here?

Maven

Delta science Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

May 12, 2014

The California Water Policy Seminar Series, presented by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and the law school’s...

Wildlife organizations send letter to State Water Board: Don’t leave the refuges out to dry

Maven

Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

March 11, 2014

The Nature Conservancy, the Trust for Public Land, Audubon, Defenders of Wildlife, Ducks Unlimited and the California Waterfowl Association have...