Written exclusively for Maven’s Notebook by Robin Meadows When California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Greg Gerstenberg saw the first nutria caught in a duck club pond near Los Banos in 2017, he had never even heard of these...
Dr. John Durand is a research scientist at UC Davis, where he studies estuarine food webs and fishes. He has conducted multiple studies throughout the Delta and currently helps run a long-term monitoring project, the Suisun Marsh fish study, which...
Reclamation, Ducks Unlimited and Biggs-West Gridley Water District Partner to Bring Water to Key Habitat When It’s Needed By Gary Pitzer, Bureau of Reclamation California’s many wildlife refuges thrive on an adequate supply of water, including Gray Lodge Wildlife Area...
At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, the agenda included an informational briefing on the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project, also known as the Big Notch. The project will create critical floodplain habitat for...
The Montezuma Wetlands Project is a multi-phase restoration project that uses dredged sediment to raise elevations in diked, subsided baylands to restore ~2,000 acres of a tidal wetland ecosystem. This project is unique, as it receives most of its revenue...
