For the past decades, water resources managers have been working with state and federal agencies and conservation partners to implement various programs and projects to improve conditions for viable salmon populations in every part of the Sacramento River Basin. These programs and projects are all shown in a comprehensive new document for the Sacramento River … Continue reading “Improving Conditions for Salmon in the Sacramento River Basin”

  Two of the leading scientists in California recently collaborated on an article focused on Conserving Habitat for Fins and Feathers. Mark Petrie and Jacob Katz describe the amazing and innovative efforts that their respective conservation organizations–Ducks Unlimited and CalTrout–have taken to improve habitat for both fish and birds. Much of their efforts have focused … Continue reading “Improving Habitat for Fins and Feathers”

Local agencies have organized in the Sacramento Valley through Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) and they are poised to advance the next generation of groundwater management in California. The recent fact sheet shows The State of Sacramento Valley Groundwater and the collaboration across the entire Sacramento Valley floor, which includes ten counties and nearly 100 special water … Continue reading “Advancing Groundwater Management in the Sacramento Valley”

  Over a period of two weeks in June, life in the Sacramento Valley, which usually takes on a certain predictability, was anything but that. All four seasons materialized in that brief period, showing the resiliency of water managers and growers throughout the Sacramento Valley. But then again nothing about 2017 has had a certain … Continue reading “Winter -Spring – Summer – Fall”