Tag Archives: Klamath River

The folly of unimpaired flows for water quality management

Posted on November 25, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Ann Willis Unimpaired streamflow has long been the benchmark against which current stream flows are evaluated for environmental purposes. The underlying assumption is that if there is water in a stream, the stream must be healthy. A closer look … Continue reading →

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The Public Trust and SGMA

Posted on October 7, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Brian Gray In a recent decision in litigation over flows and salmon survival in the Scott River system, the California Court of Appeal has ruled that groundwater pumping that diminishes the volume or flow of water in a navigable … Continue reading →

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Fish managers tasked with ranching? Conservation wins

Posted on August 12, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Ann Willis In May, the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) approved $2.4M for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to acquire Shasta Big Springs Ranch on the Shasta River, a tributary to the Klamath River.  This follows a … Continue reading →

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The Little Shasta River: A model for sustaining our national heritage

Posted on September 5, 2017 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Ann Willis, Rob Lusardi, Alex Hart, Susan Hart, Blair Hart, Andrew Braugh, Amy Campbell, Ada Fowler Rancher: farms. Conservationist: fish. Researcher: science. Too often, identity is used to divide us. Stereotypes are used to stake out conflicting positions. It’s … Continue reading →

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Science takes flight: aerial imagery provides new opportunities and insights

Posted on January 10, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Devon Lambert Remote sensing is all the rage as we start the New Year, largely due to its ability to exponentially increase our areas of analysis for research. What used to take us weeks to survey with traditional field … Continue reading →

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Creeks that cool down as summer heats up

Posted on June 30, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Ann Willis and Andrew Nichols Summer has just begun and conditions on many of California’s drought-stricken rivers and streams are already looking grim for cold-water fish. Endangered winter-run salmon may not survive a repeat of last summer’s nearly total … Continue reading →

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A salmon success story during the California drought

Posted on January 20, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Looking back on 2014, it’s hard not to feel despair for California salmon. With drought-stricken rivers running dangerously warm and slow for spring migration, the government was giving millions of young hatchery salmon a lift to the Pacific by truck … Continue reading →

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Time to rethink fish plantings in the Klamath

Posted on June 25, 2013 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Rebecca M. Quiñones The Klamath River basin presents one of the best opportunities for the reform of hatchery practices and the recovery of wild salmon and trout populations in California. Much of the habitat for the Klamath’s Chinook, coho … Continue reading →

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Sex, lies and videotape: Premature maturation of Chinook salmon on Shasta River

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

Carson Jeffres, Senior Research Associate, Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California – Davis Migration to and from the sea (anadromy) is the iconic pattern we associate with Pacific salmon. They spend most of their life in the ocean, taking … Continue reading →

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Suction dredging is bad for fish

Posted on June 17, 2011 by cathrynlawrence

Peter B. Moyle, Professor of Fish Biology, UC Davis Suction dredging seems like a fairly innocent pastime.  A few folks go to a stream on a nice summer day with a portable device to suck tiny amounts of gold out … Continue reading →

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