Monthly Archives: October 2025

It’s Elementary My Dear Walleye

By George Whitman, who is dressed as Dr. John Watson this Halloween While this Sherlockian mystery is fictional, it is inspired by a real event in which a Walleye was illegally introduced into Lake Cascade, Idaho. The events described below … Continue reading

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Where are they now: Kelly Neal

“Where are they now:”  is a blog series on the California WaterBlog, written in the voices of our alumni. The series celebrates the many alumni who got their start at the Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS) and have now gone … Continue reading

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Resilient California Fishes: Sacramento Sucker

By Peter Moyle and Tom Taylor ____________________ The fresh waters of California support a diverse native fish fauna, 130 taxa by our count (Leidy and Moyle 2021). At least 56 of these taxa are on trajectories towards extinction 7 are … Continue reading

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Representing interannual variability for environmental flow operations: the functional flow regime

By Lindsay Murdoch, Sarah Yarnell, and Jay Lund California’s local communities and native ecosystems alike have adapted to cycles of flood, drought, and a healthy portion of everything in between. Our river management, on the other hand, has fallen out … Continue reading

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California: A Salmon Society?

By Carson Jeffres Consider for a moment the identity of the Pacific Northwest as a Salmon Society.  When you fly into an airport in the Pacific Northwest, salmon are on the floors and walls as art.  This art is an expression of … Continue reading

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