California Drought Update: Will the rain be enough?
Everyone is taking a deep sigh of relief as wet weather finally returns to California. However, a burning question still remains: will it be enough to Read More…
Drought
Film Friday: Fish Counting and Flow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuN-j2RnEew Today's Film Friday is a time-lapse from the field, showing our fisheries technicians troubleshooting the lack of flow during the recent drought. They addressed this challenge Read More…
Powerful Parasites: Tiny Regulators of Ecosystem Health
Ticks, leeches, fleas, lice, bedbugs… even hearing the names of parasites can make one’s skin crawl. An individual stricken by parasites would certainly not be considered “healthy,” Read More…
Understanding How Fish Deal with Drought
Drought is a frightening word for any creature that lives in water. Aquatic animals in regions like California that have historically experienced frequent droughts have evolved remarkable Read More…
Delta Drought Review: How Did We Do?
The stress of an extreme drought can plunge a freshwater-hungry region into crisis mode. Multiple years of high temperatures plus little rain and snowfall from 2012–2016 drained Read More…
The Winter Water Outlook
California is receiving its first substantial soaking after an unusually dry start to winter. We reported at the beginning of the current water year about the increasing Read More…
Flashback Friday: Ghost Train
Here's a spooky Flashback Friday to get you ready for Halloween weekend. Look at those low water levels from 2015—now that's truly frightening! One side effect of Read More…
Droughts and Floods: California’s Climate Change Conundrum
It’s almost an understatement to call California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta “complex.” This highly altered ecosystem supports one of the most complicated water-management systems in the world. California Read More…
A Drought-Quenching Deluge
Many areas in California are still recovering from the previous weeks of torrential rainfall, caused by an atmospheric river. As large amounts of precipitation have swept across Read More…
Forests of Brown: California’s Mass Tree Die-Off
As the Western drought comes to the end of its fifth year, forests are revealing the toll the drought has taken. While trees have been dying off Read More…