Beaver News
07/2022
Chris Jordan and Emily Fairfax, Op-Ed: Want to fight climate change and drought at the same time? Bring back beavers, LA Times
05/2022
As part of his presentation of the May Revision of the Fiscal Year 2022-23 state budget, Governor Gavin Newsom proposed a new Beaver Restoration program to be run by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Strong Support for Proposed Beaver Restoration program at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, letter from various environmental, sportfishing, agricultural, and government agencies
Strong Support for Proposed Beaver Restoration program at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife10/2021
Effect of Beaver Dams on Water Surface Elevation and Water Quality –French Creek RKM 3.1 & RKM 2.9
Scott River Watershed Council
09/2017
Ariel Rubissow Okamoto, Snorkel Surveys Reveal the Fish World of Mount Tam’s Creeks, Bay Nature
07/2017
Steve Milne, Feds OK New Mercury Protections In California Waters, capradio
05/2017
Zen Menahem, Ocean Acidification Makes Salmons Lose Ability To Sense Predators, According To Researchers From The University Of Washington, The Science Times
Effects of Ocean Acidification on Salmon and Sablefish Neurobehavioral Function – Evan Gallagher
Mark Prado, Kent Lake water flow study to look at fish impact, Marin Independent Journal
Barry Eberling, Follwing a wet winter, Napa River fish trap yields high salmon count, Napa Valley Register
Monica Heger, Dams Be Damned: California Rebuilds the Salmon Habitat It Destroyed, yes! Magazine
04/2017
Wendy Culverwell, Learning to love the (Pacific) lamprey, Tri-City Herald
01/2017
Kristin Hanes, California’s recent storms are devastating endangered salmon, SF Gate
The following is an update from Eric Ettlinger, Aquatic Ecologist with Marin Water on January 13, 2017: “The current state of affairs in Lagunitas Creek can be described as a glass-half-full/glass-half-empty situation. Or more accurately, a reservoir-full, streambed-empty situation. By the end of December the coho salmon run was on track to be larger than the parent generation of three years ago and continue the generational improvements we’ve seen for each of the last five years. But then came the unrelenting storms of the last two weeks. On the positive side those storms filled MMWD’s reservoirs and produced the high flows that can create and improve salmon habitats in Lagunitas Creek. On the negative side those flows destroyed many coho redds, washed away some of our salmon habitat structures, and severely hampered our survey work. We’ve heard rumors of fresh coho out there (and steelhead should be starting to spawn too), but we haven’t been able to see them ourselves. The most recent storm raised Lagunitas Creek flows to 4,300 cubic feet per second, which was the third-highest flow in 35 years. In the coming months we’ll see if this flood had significant impacts on incubating salmon eggs and/or last year’s fry. Previous major floods in 1998 and 2006 resulted in very poor egg survival, and we expect to see relatively few fry again this summer. One-year-old juvenile coho have survived recent large floods successfully, likely by seeking out slow water areas on floodplains. Ironically, it may be moderate storm events that are most deadly, because flows stay confined in the stream channel and slow water habitats may be hard to find. This summer we’ll be enhancing a number of areas on Lagunitas Creek to provide exactly those kinds of slow water habitats. On an optimistic note, the floods this season have risen and receded rapidly, hopefully subjecting coho fry to fast, confined flows only briefly. In late March we’ll start counting the surviving smolts as they migrate to the ocean and, one way or the other, that data will contribute to our understanding of how salmon survive floods and what we can do to help.”