The Iron Gate Dam in Hornbrook, Calif., is among Klamath River dams being removed. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the largest land return in California history, declaring his support for the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago and submerged. Fish and Wildlife, along with the California Natural Resources Agency, will …
A view of the Sacramento River downstream from Keswick Dam, where endangered winter-run Chinook salmon come to spawn. A California tribe has signed agreements with state and federal agencies to work together on efforts to return endangered Chinook salmon to their traditional spawning areas upstream of Shasta Dam, a deal that could advance the long-standing goal of tribal leaders to …
Caleen Sisk, chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, visits the McCloud River in January. State and federal wildlife officials this week collected about 20,000 winter-run salmon eggs from the Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery near Redding and drove them for three hours to a campground on the banks of the McCloud River. Close-up of the salmon eggs …
In a stopgap measure to help struggling spring- and winter-run Chinook salmon spawn in the face of rising water temperatures and lower water levels due to climate change, state and federal wildlife officials in Northern California have begun trucking adult fish to cooler waters. The spring- and winter-run salmon are genetically different, with the seasonal labels marking when adult fish …
