From the Department of Water Resources: The California Water Plan is the state’s long-range strategic roadmap for managing water resources. Updated every five years, it helps guide decisions by state, regional, and local water managers. Development is now underway for...
Researchers tracked salmon before, during, and after restoration to understand how restored channel and floodplain habitat influences growth, survival, and...
Sonoma County appealed a lower court’s decision to invalidate amendments to its well-permitting ordinance under the public trust doctrine. By Carly Nairn, Courthouse News Service The county of Sonoma did not violate the public trust doctrine when it amended an...
NOAA Fisheries and partners rebuilt floodplain habitat in the heart of redwood country, benefiting salmon, restoring tribal stewardship, and creating new opportunities for recreation and jobs. By NOAA Fisheries For more than a decade, NOAA Fisheries and a broad coalition of...
From UC Merced: Wildfire is reshaping the forests of California’s Sierra Nevada and affecting the water those forests supply to downstream users. A paper published in Hydrology and Earth System Science reports that the effect of wildfire on potential runoff from...
From the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board Protecting Lake Tahoe’s iconic water quality, a joint California-Nevada effort, prevented a record quantity of fine-grained sediment and other pollutants from reaching the lake’s dazzling blue waters in 2025, according to an...
