Posts Tagged: salmon
Flood protection, agriculture, fish and wildlife coexist in the Yolo Bypass
At times during the winter and early spring it looks like a vast inland sea between Sacramento and Davis. This is the Yolo Bypass, which shunts Sacramento River floodwater around the state capital during high flows. You drive over the bypass on a...
Wine and fish for dinner? Water management required
The competition between farmers and fish for precious water in California is intensifying in wine country, say biologists at the University of California, Berkeley. A recently published study links higher death rates for threatened juvenile steelhead...
Bleak future for spring-run Chinook salmon
Warming streams could spell the end of spring-run Chinook salmon in California by the end of the century, according to a study by scientists at UC Davis, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research...