California

Unique new h2hotel is a creative, eco-friendly sign of the times.

Last-minute collaboration between attorneys representing conservation and farming interests turned widespread ire for proposed rules for water use in North Coast habitat for protected fish into wide-ranging endorsement.

Years of rumors, threats and intrigue over a little-known Sierra gem, Independence Lake near Truckee, ended last week when the Nature Conservancy closed a $15 million deal to purchase the lake and nearly 2,500 forested acres that surround it.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed members to two state agencies last week.

Schwarzenegger named nine people to a commission that will decide whether dams will be built if voters approve an $11.1 billion water bond measure in November. He also named two people to a new conservancy that is intended to promote ecosystem restoration and economic improvement in the Delta.

A recent column by Paul Gullixson and several letters to the editor have discussed impending frost control regulation by the state Water Resources Control Board. But they have presented only one side of the story. We'd like to offer another.

A controversial plan to poison an 11 mile stretch of the Silver King Creek to protect an threatened trout species gained approval from the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board on Wednesday night.

From now on, going green may be as simple as going online. Just in time for Earth Day, the Sierra Club has rolled out an iPhone app it calls "Eco Hero."

A crowd of schoolchildren stood at a bend in a creek under the shadow of the Warm Springs Dam last week and watched 14 large steelhead trout thrashing against the current. It was the last push for the fish, which had struggled 46 miles from the ocean up the mighty Russian River into Dry Creek...

Marin organizations will receive nearly $730,000 from the state Department of Fish and Game to help ailing salmon on the brink of extinction.

Richard Tejeda of San Jose recently caught his first wild steelhead on the Gualala River, while on a free guided fishing trip sponsored by Trout Unlimited of California. Tejeda won the trip through a Department of Fish and Game (DFG) online contest encouraging steelhead anglers to submit their 2009 Steelhead Fishing Report-Restoration Cards via DFG's Web site.