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  • Salmon on a record run to nowhere

    http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/news/article_e6a550d8-8998-11e5-83f7-57226107731a.html Eggs unlikely to survive high temps in Stanislaus Dana Nichols Nov 12, 2015 In other times, most folks would be cheering the news of a record salmon run on the Stanislaus River. But there really aren’t many happy stories involving fish and California rivers in the fourth year of the state’s worst ever drought.…

  • L.A. water provider moves forward on Delta land purchase

    http://www.recordnet.com/article/20151110/NEWS/151119964 By Alex Breitler Record Staff Writer Posted Nov. 10, 2015 at 7:47 PM The largest provider of treated drinking water in the U.S. may soon become a substantial landowner in the Delta, after the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California gave its general manager permission Tuesday to negotiate an option to buy four large…

  • Groups voice opposite opinions on delayed Bay-Delta Plan

    http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/article43921938.html BY BRIANNA CALIX bvaccari@mercedsunstar.com Environmental groups and San Joaquin Valley water agencies are still unable to agree on how to protect native fish populations in rivers and are pressuring the State Water Resources Control Board to take a stance through the Bay-Delta Plan that is already behind schedule. Last month, a coalition of more…

  • Feds: Winter salmon run nearly extinguished in California drought

    http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article41684160.html BY RYAN SABALOW, DALE KASLER AND PHILLIP REESE rsabalow@sacbee.com For the second straight year, huge numbers of juvenile winter-run Chinook salmon appear to have baked to death in the Sacramento River because of California’s drought-stretched water supplies, bringing the endangered species a step closer to extinction. The grim statistics released by federal officials Wednesday…

  • California Gov. Brown signs new law to protect rivers, fisheries from gold mining

    http://www.kusi.com/story/30227139/california-gov-brown-signs-new-law-to-protect-rivers-fisheries-from-gold-mining Posted: Oct 09, 2015 12:09 PM PST Updated: Oct 09, 2015 12:09 PM PST SACRAMENTO (KUSI) — California Gov. Jerry Brown Friday signed into law Senate Bill 637 to protect California’s water supplies, wildlife and cultural resources from the damaging effects of destructive hobby gold mining. The new law requires that all small-scale miners…