Despite Gov. Jerry Brown’s mandate amid a fourth year of drought, Californians aren’t exactly doing their part to save water. Here’s a portion of a report from the California Department of Water Resources: Despite continued hot conditions, Californians surpassed June’s...
Compelling and haunting story in the L.A. Times this week about the drought’s effects on California’s native fish populations, specifically Chinook salmon. With the drought four years and counting now, the ramifications of scant rainfall totals, little snowpack and...
Here’s an update on reservoir levels from the California Department of Water Resources. Some notable numbers (with current percent of capacity) Trinity Lake (29) Lake Oroville (31) Shasta Lake (40) Folsom Lake (21) Camanche Lake (20) New Melones Lake (13)...
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced a closure in his effect for fishing on a stretch of the Merced River. The reason? Not surprisingly, it’s high water temperatures. Here’s CDFW’s report: High water temperatures in the lower Merced River...
In drought-stricken California, most of the attention regarding a horrendous stretch of wildfires over the past week throughout the West has focused on fires in Lake and Napa Counties north of the Bay Area. But Southern California hasn’t been immune either,...
From the California Department of Fish and Wildlife With a fourth year of extreme drought conditions reducing the cold water supply available, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is moving fish out of the San Joaquin Hatchery near Fresno...