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A Fish That Can Live 100 Years Is at the Center of a New Lawsuit Against California
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (233+ words) California’s largest freshwater fish has been waiting two years for the state to decide whether it deserves endangered species protection. Now a coalition of conservation and fishing groups is asking a judge to force the issue. San Francisco Baykeeper, the…...
Salmon Is Back on the Menu at the Yurok Tribe's 62nd Klamath Salmon Festival
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (216+ words) For the first time in years, the Klamath Salmon Festival will actually taste like its name. Ney-puy, the Yurok word for salmon, is back on the menu at the tribe’s 62nd annual celebration, set for Saturday, August 15 in the town of…...
A Federal Judge Just Sided With Shasta Dam Over the Salmon Again
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (196+ words) The legal fight over how much cold water stays behind Shasta Dam this fall just got harder for the fish. A federal judge declined Monday to impose restrictions on Bureau of Reclamation operations at Shasta Dam and Reservoir, ruling that…...
The Northern California Farm Where Every Crop Is a Native California Plant
1+ week, 4+ day ago (191+ words) One of Northern California’s most unusual farms doesn’t grow anything you’d find at a farmers market. Hedgerow Farms, located just outside the small Yolo County town of Winters, is the subject of a new Sunset Magazine feature spotlighting its singular…...
What the Endangered Species Act Rollback Means for Northern California's Salmon, Owls and Shrimp
1+ week, 4+ day ago (172+ words) For half a century, destroying an endangered species’ habitat legally counted as harming the species itself. As of this summer, it doesn’t. The U.S. Department of the Interior has issued a new interpretation of what constitutes harm under the…...
Just as the Salmon Return to the Sacramento River, a Federal Water Plan Threatens Them Again
2+ week, 5+ day ago (239+ words) Active NorCal Just as California's salmon are staging a comeback, a federal water plan has put this year's run in jeopardy Despite a wet winter and healthy reservoir levels, the Bureau of Reclamation's approach to Lake Shasta has state officials…...
North Coast Groups Are Suing Over a Rule Change That Could Undo the Klamath River's Comeback
4+ week, 1+ day ago (253+ words) The wild salmon swimming freely up the undammed Klamath River have become Exhibit A in a looming federal lawsuit. A coalition of North Coast conservation groups intends to sue the Trump administration over its new reading of the Endangered Species…...
Golden Mussels Just Hit Their Northernmost Point Yet in the Port of West Sacramento
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (175+ words) The tiny invader working its way up the Delta has planted a flag farther north than ever, and the news is not good for the region’s waterways. Golden mussels first turned up in North America at the Port of Stockton…...
Thousands of Native Trout Were Just Released Back Into Lake Tahoe
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (249+ words) A fish that all but vanished from Lake Tahoe more than a century ago is swimming in its home waters again. Thousands of Lahontan cutthroat trout slipped into the lake at Meeks Bay on Tuesday, the first time the Washoe…...
Salmon Are Back Above the Klamath's Old Dam Sites for the First Time in Over a Century
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (224+ words) The fish are doing something they have not managed since before the Titanic sank. A salmon made its way into the upper reaches of the Klamath Basin in Oregon in June, reaching water that has been off limits to migrating…...