Fast Fact
1990 water use in 1990 was 58% ag, 32% environmental, 6% urban, and 4% other
1990 water use in 1990 was 58% ag, 32% environmental, 6% urban, and 4% other
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Latest Watershed News

Relics exposed in Lake Shasta

Hwy. 99 bridges, train trestles, town ruins emerge as water level drops

There's more than just muddy flip-flops and busted lawn chairs emerging from the depths of Lake Shasta as the reservoir drops to its lowest levels in 16 years. Old bridges, train trestles, tunnels and the foundations from towns long-drowned have begun to pop out of the lake's muddy depths. (Redding Record Searchlight - 10/07/2008)

Water official: Drought here to stay for awhile

Imperial Valley Press - 10/16/2008

6 Radical Solutions for U.S. Southwest’s Peak Water Problem

Popular Mechanics - 10/16/2008

Before She Died, Heal the Bay Founder Said California's Drought Is a Fake

Los Angeles Weekly - 10/15/2008

Average rain year won’t cut it

Sacramento Business Journal - 10/06/2008

DWR calls drought ‘most significant in state’s history’

Mount Shasta News - 10/02/2008

On California’s Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon

For the first time there's no fishing for chinook salmon on the California coast. The search is on for why the prize catch is so scarce.

Thirty years ago there were several thousand salmon boats in California. More recently, as the fish became scarce, only a few hundred worked the coast. Then salmon populations crashed, and this year for the first time U.S. officials canceled all ocean salmon fishing off California and most of Oregon, and curtailed it off Washington, a $300 million loss. (Smithsonian Magazine - 09/29/2008)

Silent Streams? Escalating Endangerment For North American Freshwater Fish

Science Daily - 09/10/2008

Three common pesticides said to harm West Coast salmon

Los Angeles Times - 08/14/2008

Signs point to monster return for salmon

San Francisco Chronicle - 08/12/2008

A simple solution to help salmon

Sacramento Bee - 08/12/2008

California forestry officials reject rules to protect salmon

Sacramento Bee - 08/07/2008

A Strategy for Coping with Climate Change

Amid rising seas, a California modeling effort recommends abandoning land tracts in the Sacramento Delta

A new multidisciplinary modeling effort concludes that certain tracts of land in California's Sacramento Delta should be abandoned the next time they flood, and that major California water-supply inlets in the area should be rerouted. (MIT Technology Review - 09/11/2008)

El Dorado Irrigation District delays several projects

Sacramento Bee - 10/15/2008

Farmer campaigns against Schwarzenegger water plan

San Francisco Chronicle - 09/03/2008

Delta residents fight to be heard on peripheral canal

Stockton Record - 08/22/2008

Editorial: Delta overhaul can't undercut northern rights

Redding Record Searchlight - 08/22/2008

Bypass purchases worry Yolo

Sacramento Bee - 08/04/2008

Boaters, beware: Hunt is on for mussel invaders

Authorities are on the lookout for quagga and zebra mussels, invasive species known to hitchhike from one body of water to another by attaching themselves to boat trailers, hulls, engines and steering components. (Sacramento Bee - 07/03/2008)

New Invasive Mussel Guidebook Available Online

Dept. of Fish and Game - 10/16/2008

EPA faulted on waterway pollution from sprawl

Associated Press - 10/16/2008

My View: Delta Vision: Facing facts about California water

Sacramento Bee - 10/16/2008

Some bottled water toxicity shown to exceed law

San Francisco Chronicle - 10/15/2008

Small fish "tracers" detect Bay mercury threats

California Aggie - 10/15/2008

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Watershed Calendar

3rd National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration
July 20 - 24, 2009
Lost Angeles, CA

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