MONTE RIO REDWOODS Regional Park in Sonoma County just got four times bigger. The county acquired a parcel of over 1,500 ...

Jeff Miller stands atop the fish barrier at the base of Niles Community Park as they rescue stranded steelhead in 2016.

An effort to return 73 square miles of forests to California’s Yurok Tribe has been completed. Organizers say the deal will ...

Standing in the creek, she says, “We are in the business of forever; that’s how we feel about the Yurok taking over as stewards of this vital creek and watershed.” Image by Justin Catanoso.

Local efforts to support salmon received a jolt in the arm from a state agency this spring that will see millions of dollars go toward a handful of projects in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties.

Salmon have already gone extinct in 40 ... Marblemount Fish Hatchery will place no Chambers Creek steelhead into the Skagit watershed for 12 ... a distributary named Ship Creek on old maps.

An otolith from Putah Creek-origin chinook salmon viewed under a microscope. Image: Lauren Hitt / UC Davis. This new run of wild salmon at Putah Creek descended from hatchery fish ­ — a finding that ...

A historical map from the early 1850s shows islands in Salmon Creek, ... the water health rating in one big chunk of Salmon Creek’s watershed improved from “fair” in 2010 to “good” in ...

Almost everywhere in California, salmon are on the decline. But in Putah Creek — a restored stream running through the UC Davis campus — wild salmon are not only increasing, they also are ...

UC Davis research shows fall-run salmon once again reproducing in Putah Creek 02:36. DAVIS – California's chinook salmon fishing season could be shut down for the third year in a row.. That's ...

The restoration of Putah Creek has been two decades in the making. The fact that chinook salmon are completing their life cycles here, these researchers say, can be a lesson learned statewide.