CalTrout Secures NOAA Funding to Advance Multi-Year Restoration of the East Fork Scott River
CalTrout has been awarded funding from NOAA to restore streams and reconnect floodplains for coho salmon along the East Fork Scott River — a primary tributary to one of California's largest salmon-producing rivers.
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Karuk Groundwater Study Says Overpumping Reducing Flows For Salmon In Scott River
Read more →: Karuk Groundwater Study Says Overpumping Reducing Flows For Salmon In Scott RiverA Karuk Tribe study of Scott Valley water says increased groundwater pumping is resulting in lower flows in the Scott River (which provides spawning…
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Circuit Court Decision Says ESA Trumps 1872 Mining Act
Read more →: Circuit Court Decision Says ESA Trumps 1872 Mining ActIn what will probably be viewed as a landmark decision, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that suction dredge mining permits…
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Floating Robots Released Into California Waters (No, This Isn’t a Sci-Fi Post)
Read more →: Floating Robots Released Into California Waters (No, This Isn’t a Sci-Fi Post)Small floating sensors — some of which are even self-propelled — are part of the Floating Sensor Project, which aims to collect data about…
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Hatchery Salmon Damaging Wild Fish Stocks By Outcompeting Them For Food
Read more →: Hatchery Salmon Damaging Wild Fish Stocks By Outcompeting Them For FoodHatchery salmon stocks have long been used to “mitigate” the damage to wild salmon stocks caused by habitat loss, dams, water quality issues and…
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Spring Storms Improve California’s Snowpack… A Little…
Read more →: Spring Storms Improve California’s Snowpack… A Little…A string of spring storms (OK, those of us living through them have used far-less-charitable words) have moved the needle a little on California’s…
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California’s Dismal Snowpack/Waterpack Numbers Tick Up Ever So Slightly
Read more →: California’s Dismal Snowpack/Waterpack Numbers Tick Up Ever So SlightlyA weeklong series of storms have bumped California’s snowpack/waterpack up from the truly dismal to the depressing. The southern Sierras remain at only 37%…