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  • Grateful for Signs of Recovery

    Angelina Cook

    Basking in the glow of Thanksgiving, I am grateful for the incredible strides made this year toward recovery of anadromous fisheries in the north state. Heightened returns of adult Chinook spawners to Battle Creek, to the Scott River, and to Klamath tributaries previously blocked by dams confirm that diligent efforts to improve fish passage and…

  • CSPA Supports Draft Science Report and Real Substantial Flow Increases for the Lower Tuolumne River

    Jessica Zimmer

    Example of substantial floodplain inundation on the lower Tuolumne River downstream of La Grange, taken March 27, 2019. Flow was 6,000 cfs at La Grange. Image: Chris Shutes  On November 5, 2025, Chris Shutes, Executive Director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), made a presentation to the State Water Resources Control Board (Board) in…

  • Delta Tunnel and Sites Reservoir Water Rights Hearing Notes – November 2025

    Chris Shutes

    Administrative Hearings Office Requires More Modeling for Proposed Sites Project and Delta Tunnel The Hearing Officer in the respective water rights hearings for the proposed Sites Reservoir Project and the proposed Delta Tunnel, who happens to be the same individual, has ordered more modeling in each proceeding.  The State Water Board’s Administrative Hearings Office (AHO)…

  • Measuring Flow to Support New Interim Flow Requirements in the Shasta River

    Angelina Cook

    For decades, stream flows in the Shasta River dropped to a fraction of historical levels every summer, no matter how wet the water year type. Now, a new law, AB 263, which took effect in September 2025, requires that sufficient quantities of water remain instream. This ensures that coho salmon will be less likely to…

  • Flood plain restoration below Camanche Dam

    Eric Woodruff

    Fall-run Chinook salmon are currently migrating back to the Lower Mokelumne River to spawn. Many of these fish will be spawned in the Mokelumne River Fish Hatchery. But of those that spawn in the river, many will do so in reaches where there have been floodplain restoration efforts. Historical land use practices such as agriculture,…