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Monthly Archives: June 2023
Can Sacramento Valley reservoirs adapt to flooding with a warmer climate?
by Jay Lund and Ann Willis Editor’s note: This is a blog that was originally posted on 6/25/17. Since publication of the blog, there has been interesting newer research about running the San Joaquin rim dams for “functional flows” … Continue reading
Endangered Freshwater Fishes: Does California Lead the World?
By Peter B. Moyle & Robert A. Leidy See Moyle and Leidy (2023) for much more detailed version of this essay. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108758826 Few things give the authors of this essay more pleasure than swimming in a California stream on a … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, endangered species, global, native fishes, Peter Moyle, Sacramento splittail, salmon, speckled dace, trout
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Facing the Dragon: California’s Nasty Ecological Debts
By Andrew L. Rypel “Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.” ~N. Morris When I was younger, a close friend of mine struggled with a crippling debt. It was during that unique period shortly before and after … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Rypel, dams, debt, ecological debts, economics, Ecosystems, environmental debts, environmental justice, extinction, groundwater, nitrogen, salmon
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Water Wasted to the Sea?
By James E. Cloern, Jane Kay, Wim Kimmerer, Jeffrey Mount, Peter B. Moyle and Anke Müeller-Solger This essay is a condensed version of one that appeared in the journal San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (Vol. 15, Issue 2, Article 1), … Continue reading
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