Invasive aquatic vegetation Archives ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK STAGING

September 30, 2026

Experts explain how prevention, early detection, and coordinated response can help protect California’s ecosystems, waterways, agriculture, and communities. Invasive species...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Control, not eradication: Managing invasive plants in the Delta

Maven

Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

July 28, 2026

With eradication out of reach, the Aquatic Invasive Plant Control Program focuses on keeping invasive aquatic vegetation from overwhelming Delta...

PRESS RELEASE: Sierra Club Tahoe Area Group and California Sportfishing Protection Alliance announce Lake Tahoe lawsuit victory

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Water quality

April 30, 2024

California’s Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board Permit Vacated The Sierra Club Tahoe Area Group and the California Sportfishing Protection...

NOW AVAILABLE: Executive Summary of the State of Bay-Delta Science 2022

Delta Stewardship Council

Delta science Reports Science

December 13, 2023

From the Delta Stewardship Council: The Delta Science Program is excited to share an executive summary for the 2022 edition...

SJV WATER: Floodplain work could start on two San Joaquin Valley rivers as soon as this week after state funding was approved

SJV Water

Ecosystems

August 28, 2023

By Lois Henry, SJV Water The state approved funding for a range of floodplain projects in the San Joaquin Valley,...

FEATURE: Delta Increasingly Bogged Down with Weeds

Jacoba Charles

Delta science Ecosystems

August 9, 2023

By Jacoba Charles, Estuary News Group Aquatic plants tend to hide in plain sight, overlooked other than the occasional striking...

NOW AVAILABLE: The State of Bay Delta Science 2022: primary production, invasive aquatic vegetation, remote sensing, harmful algal blooms, carbon sequestration, and more …

Maven

Delta science Science

February 9, 2023

The State of Bay-Delta Science (SBDS) is a collection of papers that represents the state of scientific knowledge on relevant...

DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Advances in mapping invasive aquatic vegetation

Maven

Delta science Notebook News and Features

December 22, 2022

At the December meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen discussed Council-funded research that will...

CAL MATTERS: Unwelcome and tough to evict: California’s costly, uphill battle against invasive species

Cal Matters

Ecosystems

April 12, 2021

Like house guests overstaying their welcome, foreign crabs have been nearly impossible to boot out of California. A new strategy,...

US FWS: Water hyacinth acts like ‘plastic wrap’ on the Delta

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Ecosystems

July 16, 2020

Looking at the water hyacinth’s lovely lavender flowers and lush green leaves, it’s easy to see why it was brought here...

USGS: Are invasive plants trapping sediment that a healthy estuary needs? Sweating the small stuff in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

USGS

Delta science Science

August 31, 2018

In recent years, invasive aquatic plants have increased exponentially in the shallow waters of California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, clogging...

Alternative monitoring approaches for large Bay-Delta estuarine wetland restoration projects

Maven

Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

September 8, 2016

Adapting to uncertainty or novelty during accelerated climate change In recent years, many tidal wetland restoration projects have become larger...

Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee, part 3: Interagency Crackdown on Aquatic Invasive Weeds in the Delta

Maven

Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

June 3, 2015

This past year, invasive weeds in the Delta were likely the worst it’s ever been, with the low flows due...