The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) this week released the third edition of "California Fish Species of Special Concern" by the Shed's Peter Moyle, alums Rebecca Quiñones and Jacob Katz and Jeff Weaver of CDFW. This is the first update in 20 years and shows continued dramatic decline of California native fishes.
Accounts from this year’s ever-popular rivers course, taught by Center for Watershed Sciences staff, read more like the Chronicle for Drier Education — thanks to this fourth year of extreme drought.
Amber Manfree of the Center for Watershed Sciences on Wednesday (May 27) will be awarded the Kinsella Memorial Prize for her dissertation on the changing landscape of Suisun Marsh, a vast wetland in the San Francisco Estuary important for fish and water birds.
The Center's Thomas Harter and environmental justice advocate Laurel Firestone say an outdated state law keeps drought-prone communities from knowing what parts of the groundwater system around them have been tapped, which wells are at risk or what the water quality is.
Average returns of fall-run Chinook salmon on the Shasta River in the past four years have quadrupled, even during the drought. No one knows for sure why.
UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences Director Jay Lund told KXTL News 10 (ABC, Sacramento) Thursday that if California faced a 100-year drought, it could lose up to half of its agriculture.
The conservation group California Trout prominently features the Center for Watershed Sciences principals and salmonid-related projects in its inaugural issue of Currents, with this embedded video of interviews with Center co-founders Jeffrey Mount and Peter Moyle and current director Jay Lund, among others.
