Santa Clara Valley Water is spending millions cleaning up after unhoused people’s encampments. Now it would like to move them out, instead.
Tag: chinook
Winter Issue 2024
A Last Best Hope for Coho in the Russian River
Now equipped with $8.4 million in federal money, conservationists are aiming to bring back the watershed’s salmonids
Climate Change, The Bay, Wildlife
High Temperatures Threaten Sacramento River’s Fall-Run King Salmon
The early fall king salmon spawning run on the Sacramento River is taking place between Red Bluff and Redding, but prolonged drought has led to reduced flows from Lake Shasta and high water temperatures downriver, which could deal many egg nests a death blow.
The Bay, Wildlife
New project gives ‘snapshot’ of CA’s wild salmon populations
A new project from The Nature Conservancy looks into the state of California’s wild salmon populations.
Wildlife
A Day Out with the Salmon
A bumper crop of chinook salmon this year brought out many fishermen, who haven’t been able to throw their lines in for four years.
Paddling, Wildlife
Paddle with the Salmon on the Tuolumne
A remarkable event happens every year along the Tuolumne River, but sadly, very few people know about it: Chinook salmon run up the river to their spawning grounds, and the canoes of the Tuolumne River Trust are there to meet them. You could join them this weekend.
Winter Issue 2010
Petaluma’s Teenage Fish Force
At first glance the tan building blends into the rest of Petaluma’s Casa Grande High School. It’s nondescript from the outside, but it houses a rare kind of conservation organization, the United Anglers of Casa Grande. The high school students in the club run their own hatchery, and learn more about salmon than most folks ever know…
Winter Issue 2006
Dance of the Cranes
The Cosumnes Preserve near I-5 in the Central Valley is a surprising mosaic of flooded rice fields teeming with birds, breached levees creating new forests, and a river reclaiming a landscape.
Spring Issue 2002
Improved Salmon Run Up Lagunitas/San Geronimo Creeks
Assisted by generous early rains, astounding numbers of salmon swam up Lagunitas and San Geronimo creeks (on the northwest side of Mount Tamalpais) to spawn this past winter. Surveyors counted 318 active salmon redds (depressions in the stream bottom gravel … Read more
