Upper watershed management

Delta science Science

March 19, 2024 85

Climate change projections for California indicate a future characterized by warmer temperatures, reduced snowfall, greater rainfall, and drier summer conditions....

UC MERCED: Warming climate pushes rain to higher elevations, raising flooding risks

Press Release/Notice

Science

February 6, 2024 279

By Professor Roger Bales, UC Merced A new study co-authored by UC Merced researchers assesses the effect of a warming...

USFS: Protecting water from fire: How the Wildfire Crisis Strategy protects critical infrastructure

US Forest Service

August 17, 2023 108

By Benjamin Cossel, Stanislaus National Forest If they’d only known. Back in the 1850s, miners in the Sierra Nevada gold-rush...

DELTA COUNCIL: Wildfires increasing in acres burned and severity, but total cost to California remains unclear

July 6, 2023 260

California’s forests are facing a growing threat: wildfires. The severity and frequency of these fires are on the rise, fueled...

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

February 28, 2023 85

Like an old man suddenly aware the world has moved on without him, the conifer tree native to lower elevations...

STANFORD NEWS: Q&A: Harnessing the power of nature to address water and climate challenges

Stanford University

August 18, 2022 18

Felicia Marcus discusses how investments in nature could simultaneously help states bolster water supplies and achieve their climate goals. By...

PACIFIC FOREST TRUST: Seeing the Forest for the Water

Best of the Notebook Webinars

April 20, 2022 279

When an ecologist, a geographer, and an engineer walk into a watershed bar, what do they talk about? Most of...

EOS: Forest Fires Could Boost Western U.S. Water Supplies

American Geophysical Union

February 21, 2022

Streamflow in the West has been below average since the early 2000s, but a new analysis shows that streams aren’t...

AG ALERT: Wildfires bring renewed calls for thinning forests

Ag Alert

September 1, 2021

By Kevin Hecteman, Ag Alert The 2021 fire season threatens to overtake 2020—the worst fire year in recorded state history....

ACWA CONFERENCE: Adapting to Flood, Fire, and Drought: A Case Study of the American River

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features

August 26, 2020 532

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The Governor’s Water Resilience Portfolio Initiative underscores the need for communities to maintain and diversify water supplies and to...

WEBINAR: Water Quality Concerns in Western Forests and Rangelands

March 21, 2018 172

Webinar looks at what is being done to reduce impacts the impacts of wildfires on water quality and ecosystem health...

THE DELTA AND THE TRIBUTARIES, part 3: Moving the Delta and the tributaries towards a sustainable future

February 22, 2018 495

The Sierra Nevada plays a critical role in California’s water supply: Snowpack in the mountain provides a natural form of...

THE DELTA AND THE TRIBUTARIES, part 2: California’s salmon face challenges, but there are success stories, too

February 21, 2018 1564

In the fall of every year, an incredible phenomenon takes place in the Central Valley: the fall salmon run. Adult...

THE DELTA AND THE TRIBUTARIES, part 1: How the health of the headwaters affects California’s water system