Category Archives: Water Markets

Functional Flows for Developing Ecological Flow Recommendations

Posted on December 9, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Sarah Yarnell, Alyssa Obester, Ted Grantham, Eric Stein, Belize Lane, Rob Lusardi, Julie Zimmerman, Jeanette Howard, Sam Sandoval-Solis, Rene Henery, and Erin Bray To protect California’s native aquatic species, stream flows need to be managed to support important ecological … Continue reading →

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Scott Valley pioneers instream flow and groundwater management for reconciled water use

Posted on August 21, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Gus Tolley The Scott River is one of California’s four major undammed streams and important spawning habitat for coho (a species listed as “threatened”) and Chinook salmon. This peaceful and pastoral agricultural valley is at the center of several … Continue reading →

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Measuring the effectiveness of ‘environmental flows’

Posted on November 18, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Ann Willis and Andrew Nichols In the early fall of 2012, an unusually large number of Chinook salmon were returning to the Klamath River, straddling the California-Oregon border. Many of those fish were expected to swim upstream to the … Continue reading →

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Water giveaways during a drought invite conflict

Posted on March 23, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

                                                This article first ran in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 20, 2015. By Jay Lund … Continue reading →

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