Tag Archives: flow restoration

Minimum Flow Laws in California and Chile

Posted on February 25, 2024 by Christine Parisek

By Camila Boettiger, Karrigan Börk, Roberto Ponce Oliva, Diego Rivera, Jay Lund, and Sarah Yarnell California and Chile share a history of water allocation with little regard for instream uses of water, especially environmental uses. In California, for example, many … Continue reading →

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The UnDammed

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

Jeffrey F. Mount, Founding Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California – Davis I had the great pleasure of being up in the Olympic Peninsula for the Elwha Dam removal ceremonies a few weeks ago.  With the … Continue reading →

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Coho in Crisis, Part 2: Saving coho, saving salmon, restoring streams

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

By Peter Moyle In my last blog, I provided evidence that coho salmon were headed for extinction in California.  Here I discuss why and what we can do about  it.  The over-riding cause of coho decline is 150 years of … Continue reading →

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New Life for the Delta Ecosystem

Posted on April 21, 2011 by cathrynlawrence

Peter Moyle, Professor of Fish Biology, University of California-Davis  The Delta and Suisun Marsh were once part of a continuous, enormously productive aquatic ecosystem that supported dense populations of fish from Sacramento perch to salmon, huge flocks of wintering waterfowl, … Continue reading →

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