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Habitat Setback for West Coast Fish Jeff McLain thought he had a pretty good argument to limit or even stop gravel mining along the Merced River, at least up until this March. The river is home to fall run salmon, but that species is only a candidate for the endangered species list and doesn’t yet receive protection under the law. But the Merced River, which runs from Yosemite National Park, where it is a wild and scenic river, to California’s Central Valley, may once have contained steelhead trout, which do receive protection under the Endangered Species Act as a threatened species. Even now, fishermen say they catch steelhead in the waters of the Merced, although none of their fish stories have been confirmed ... »Read More

Bulletin Board SALMON ARE FALLING FROM THE SKIES in Oregon’s Mt. Hood National Forest. In an attempt to replace a critical link in the food web ... »Read More Algae as Missing Link Biologists recently got one step closer to solving the mystery of how methyl mercury moves up the aquatic food chain. A new study ... »Read More Silver Platters in Black Holes Each spring, under the Vernalis Adaptive Management Plan, Delta export pumps suck less water from the San Joaquin River and Valley farmers ... »Read More Saving Surfperch State resource managers have their eye on the steadily declining population of surfperch, but they aren’t the sort of fish that stand out in a crowd ... »Read More Rail Mystery Clapper rail numbers have crashed in some unexpected locations around the Bay, according to surveys of this secretive, short-tailed denizen ... »Read More Trials Over Trails Driving across the flat, concrete-strewn 200 acres of Richmond shoreline that he and two partners bought in 1999, Dave Guthridge enthusiastically describes his plans ... »Read More CVPIA Water Down for the Count California’s elaborate water system has been called everything from an aqueduct empire to a mirage. These days ... »Read More New Layers of Delta Government? Two bills important to water and Delta interests are working their way through the State Senate ... »Read More

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