Restoration for Recharge: Reconnecting Surface and Groundwater
Overdrawing groundwater can not only cause the ground to sink, it can also lead to a river or lake disappearing. In most rivers and lakes, the water Read More…
Restoration
Salmonid Survival in California: An Ambitious Strategy for Resilience
California’s cold-water species like salmon and trout face an uncertain future in a warming world. A recent report by the University of California, Davis and California Trout Read More…
Floodplains and Fish Reintroduction: The 2017 Salmon Restoration Conference
Now in its 35th year, the annual Salmon Restoration Conference draws scientists, managers, and conservation practitioners from across the West Coast to discuss efforts to revive struggling Read More…
Tackling Invasive Iceplant
River clean-ups and restoration are a regular activity for our staff in Oakdale and Chico, so our Santa Cruz office was excited for the chance to take Read More…
Flashback Friday: Zipping Through Time
California's wet winter has recently brought floodplains to the fore of many water discussions in the state. On today's Flashback Friday, we wanted to share our post Read More…
Dos Rios Ranch: A Model for Restoration
While attending this year’s biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference, we were inspired by all the ongoing work to restore habitat throughout the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region. Many presentations Read More…
Focus on fish food
When working to improve the quality of habitat on a river, it is important to understand what constitutes a successful project. It is not always safe to Read More…
Who’s at home?
Now that the hard work of creating viable side-channel habitat at Honolulu Bar has wrapped up (see Restoration Complete), it is time to see how aquatic life Read More…
Plant a tree, help a salmon
Do you like working outdoors? Want to help restore important fish habitat on the Stanislaus River? FISHBIO and River Partners are looking for volunteers to plant native Read More…
Restoration complete
[caption id="attachment_16338" align="alignnone" width="800"] Pre-construction; instream island over-run with non-native plants[/caption] [caption id="attachment_16339" align="alignnone" width="800"] Post-construction floodplain bench; juvenile salmon rearing habitat[/caption] Last week marked the end Read More…