Nonprofits’ research projects on fish serve multiple purposes. They serve an impetus to improve restoration efforts and manage hatcheries better. They make a case for reintroducing species in areas where the species had a historical presence. And they draw funding, volunteers, allies, and media attention. When nonprofits undertake research projects on fish, their results can…

Since dam construction in the early 1900s, Central Valley Chinook salmon have been cut off from their historical spawning and rearing habitat in the upper Feather River watershed. Spring-run Chinook salmon in particular historically utilized the upper river watersheds like the North Fork Feather River. In wake of population declines, especially of spring-run salmon, the…

In July 2025, 34 parties who protested issuing water rights for the proposed tunnel under California’s Bay-Delta estuary filed testimony in opposition to the project. The filing of the protestants’ “cases-in-chief” follows two months of testimony by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) in support of the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP).  CSPA filed three…

On July 11, 2025, after a month floating the free-flowing Klamath River 310 miles, a group of indigenous youth arrived at the river’s mouth. Theirs was the first expedition to boat the river from source to sea since the removal of the fourth dam on the Klamath River in September 2024. The boaters included young…

On July 24, 2025, State Water Board staff released an “updated” version of a proposed Bay-Delta Plan.  The updated Plan is very clear: it is going to give the water users and the Newsom administration every single thing they have asked for in terms of managing water that goes into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and…