Benefits of Large Wood in Streams – Flashback Friday
In today’s Flashback Friday, we examine the benefits and shortcomings of logs and logjams in streams to resident fish species. Losing your favorite spinner on a log can Read More…
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Piling it On: Benefits of Large Wood in Streams
Losing your favorite spinner on a log can be a real drag, but besides collecting fishing lures, large wood like dead trees and branches play a pivotal Read More…
World Rivers Day
The last Sunday of September is World Rivers Day, a chance to celebrate the importance of our planet’s waterways. Rivers stretch like networks of veins and arteries Read More…
Tributary priorities
Conserving the wildlife of big rivers can be a challenging -- and expensive -- undertaking. Roughly $400 million is spent each year trying to study and protect Read More…
What’s “natural” in a regulated river?
It's hard to find a "natural" river in California's Central Valley. Significant changes over the past century, such as dams and water use, have altered the daily, Read More…
Not all Chinook are created equal
People often ask, what's wrong with hatchery fish? Maybe the most obvious answer is that selective pressures that exist in the wild don't exist in hatcheries. As Read More…