Wildcat Creek has been trash-clogged and flood-prone for forty years. Now residents will plan its revitalization—and maybe the steelhead can come back, too?
Tag: steelhead
Conservation
The Creek Cleanups Will Continue Indefinitely
Santa Clara Valley Water is spending millions cleaning up after unhoused people’s encampments. Now it would like to move them out, instead.
Fall Issue 2022
Measuring Trout Migration From the Hills to the Sea
Annual surveys show East bay streams continue to support native fish, including Sacramento pikeminnow, Pacific lamprey, and rainbow trout.
Fall Issue 2017
Snorkel Surveys Reveal the Fish World of Mount Tam’s Creeks
A biologist spends his days looking for coho and steelhead — and small, spiny sticklebacks.
Wildlife
It Was The Perfect Fish Study — Until Nature Messed It Up
Why do some fish go to sea while others stay home? NOAA researchers had elegant plans to investigate — and then the drought intervened.
Ask the Naturalist
Why Do Pacific Salmon Die After Spawning?
The upriver salmon run is one of nature’s great migrations. But why after spawning just once do Pacific salmon die?
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.
Fall Issue 2013
From Perch to Pikeminnows: The Freshwater Fish That Didn’t Get Away
Our native fish may be down, but they’re not out, they’re hanging on in ecosystems they once ruled. And biologists and environmental advocates alike are working to make things better. The fish have advocates, and the exhibit is a tool for that advocacy, a means of engaging the public at large.
Summer Issue 2013
Monitoring steelhead: Counting the fish after they’ve hatched
A new study aims to see how well our steelhead trout are doing AFTER they’ve grown up a bit. Are they getting big enough to survive in the ocean?
The Bay, Wildlife
Good News for Steelhead from SFPUC
Things are looking up for the steelhead trout of Alameda Creek. A revised plan to replace the Calaveras Dam includes several features that will benefit the federally threatened fish. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) approved the project on January 27, 2011, ending years of discussion with conservation groups and federal agencies.
