California

There, in about a foot of water, they spied something that had vanished from the San Joaquin River more than 60 years ago: a spawning chinook salmon.

Chuck Bonham, who leads our California office, has been nominated by the Govenor of California to direct the California Department of Fish and Game...

Trout Unlimited and California Trout are the prime movers seeking to secure a “Wild and Scenic River” designation for a portion of the Upper Truckee. And toward that end, representatives from the two organizations appealed to the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors Tuesday to back their effort.

The California Assembly has approved several bills by Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro (D-North Coast) that deal with job creation, environmental protection, protecting big game and wildlife and assisting with tsunami disaster recovery.

People love fish. Whether that means eating them, catching them, telling of the “big one that got away” or simply watching them swim, our piscatorial brethren attract our interest and pull at our hearts. Fishing is a multi-billion dollar industry in this country, and for local evidence of our nation’s intense interest in these underwater denizens, take a trip to Fanny Bridge at the outflow to Lake Tahoe, where hundreds of people flock daily to observe the giant trout that inhabit the depths of the famous Truckee River. 

In a unanimous decision on April 19, 2011, the State Water Resources Control Board has rejected a request by Merced Irrigation District (Merced ID) to delay study of the impacts of its Merced River Hydroelectric Project on Merced River. The State Board ordered Merced ID to study the effects of its dams on water quality, and salmon and steelhead survival and abundance.  

A class of Novato fourth-graders came to Mount Tamalpais on Monday morning to bid adieu to animals they helped raise for the past six weeks.

The population of Marin's endangered coho salmon remains in peril even after a wet winter, with the third-lowest run in the past 15 years.

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The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will review a new plan that attempts to protect endangered fish while allowing grapegrowers to continue using Russian River water to defend their vineyards from frost.