Suction dredging is bad for fish
Peter B. Moyle, Professor of Fish Biology, UC Davis Suction dredging seems like a fairly innocent pastime. A few folks go to a stream on a nice summer day with a portable device to suck tiny amounts...
View ArticleNo going back for the Delta, but which way forward?
Jay Lund, Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis Peter Moyle, Professor of Fish Biology, University of California – Davis Ellen Hanak, Senior Fellow, Public Policy...
View ArticleWoodman, spare that levee?
Jay Lund, the Ray B. Krone Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis Policy debates sometimes seem to tragically miss the big picture. The current debate on levee...
View ArticleManaging for multiple stressors in the Delta
Ellen Hanak1, Jay Lund2, Peter Moyle3, Jeffrey Mount4, Brian Gray5 and Barton “Buzz” Thompson6 Across California, native fish populations are in sharp decline, despite decades of well-intentioned...
View ArticleAn uncertain future for whitewater boating under climate change
Scott Ligare, Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Davis Joshua Viers, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Science & Policy, UC...
View ArticleAdaptive management means never having to say you’re sorry
Jay R. Lund, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis Ellen Hanak, Public Policy Institute of California Brian Gray, University of California – Hastings,...
View ArticleThe future of Suisun Marsh
By Peter Moyle If you have taken Amtrak from Sacramento to the Bay Area, you have seen Suisun Marsh. Going west, as the train pulls out of Suisun City, you are suddenly riding through a huge wetland,...
View ArticleBenefits of growing up in a spring stream
Juvenile coho salmon feeding on invertebrates drifting in the water column. The material floating down also consists of plant material that invertebrates use as a food resource. Video by Carson...
View ArticleThe benefits of floodplain reconnection
By Jeffrey Mount For more than a century, California has sought to separate floodplains from rivers. An elaborate array of levees and dams usually confine, divert or capture winter floods, supporting...
View ArticleWater Storage in California
Jay R. Lund, The Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis “With a larger reservoir, there is some increasing gain with further size, but in a diminishing...
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