UC SANTA CRUZ: Survival of migrating juvenile salmon depends on stream flow thresholds UC Santa Cruz Delta scienceEcosystemsScience May 20, 2021New understanding of relationship between stream flows and salmon survival provides a critical tool for balancing water needs in the...
US FWS: Revitalizing California’s floodplains benefits people and wildlife US Fish and Wildlife Service Ecosystems April 20, 2021By Meghan Snow, US Fish & Wildlife Service Throughout California’s history, rivers have been diverted, rerouted and contained by concrete....
UC SANTA CRUZ: Spring-run and fall-run Chinook salmon aren’t as different as they seem UC Santa Cruz EcosystemsScience October 29, 2020Genetic analysis of Klamath River Chinook salmon finds a simple genetic variant determines the timing of migration, and seasonal runs...
US FWS: 700 winter-run Chinook salmon return to Battle Creek US Fish and Wildlife Service Fish and wildlife October 22, 2020At least 700 sub-adult and adult winter-run Chinook salmon (winter Chinook) returned this year to Battle Creek. Although monitoring efforts...
LAWSUIT SETTLEMENT: Landmark Lawsuit Settlement Between Environmentalists and State Water Boards Strengthens Delta Protections CA Sportfishing Protection Alliance Water rights and water law July 21, 2020From the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance: Three California environmental nonprofits secured a landmark settlement agreement with the California State Water...
LETTER: State Water Board rejects Reclamation’s Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan Maven Water project operations June 2, 2020Yesterday, the Executive Director of the State Water Resources Control Board sent a letter to Ernest Conant at the Bureau...
THIS JUST IN … Lawsuit Filed Against Long Term Water Transfer Program Conservation organizations & coalitions Water project operationsWater supply augmentation May 14, 2020Press release from AquAlliance: AquAlliance filed a lawsuit in federal District Court against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) and...
CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD: Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project Maven Notebook News and FeaturesPlanning and management May 5, 2020Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was largely a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would...
NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY: Draft Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan State Water Board Water project operations April 28, 2020From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board is providing an opportunity for written public...
UC SANTA CRUZ: Shasta Dam releases can be managed to benefit both salmon and sturgeon, study finds UC Santa Cruz Water project operations August 20, 2019Optimal scenario for releasing water into the Sacramento River can meet the needs of endangered winter-run chinook salmon, threatened green...
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 3: Challenges and lessons learned with adaptive management in the Bay-Delta Maven Delta sciencePlanning and management April 18, 2019Panel of Delta project managers discuss how they apply adaptive management in their projects Adaptive management is defined in the...
DR. BRUCE HERBOLD: Hydrographs and Ecological Functions in the Present-day Landscape of the Sacramento River Maven Delta scienceEcosystems July 16, 2017Dr. Bruce Herbold, Estuarine Ecology consultant, now retired from USEPA, began by saying he would be focusing on the Sacramento...
The Bay Institute responds to Sacramento River Settlement Contractors Maven Water project operations July 1, 2016Sacramento River Settlement Contractors will receive full deliveries of water this year at the expense of the salmon runs, they...
This just in … Sacramento River Settlement Contractors frustrated by delay in implementing the Sacramento River operations plan for summer Maven Water project operations June 30, 2016Proposed Shasta Reservoir Releases Focuses Solely on Temperature for Winter Run Eggs; SRSCs Call for More Holistic Approach to Managing...
Juvenile Chinook challenges in the Central Valley: baked, boiled or bass food? Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceFish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features December 16, 2015The predator issue: Just how bad is it? Dr. Sean Hayes discusses the results of recent studies on the San...
