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‘North Delta Arc’ lifts hope for recovery of native fish
By John Durand Matt Young and Denise De Carion thought they had seen about all there is of fish communities in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. They had surveyed nearly the entire web of channels...
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The North Delta Habitat Arc: an Ecosystem Strategy for Saving Fish
Peter Moyle, John Durand, Amber Manfree. Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis. Delta native fishes are in desperate condition. Over 90% of fish sampled by diverse means...
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Reconciling conservation and human use in the Delta
By John Durand, Peter Moyle, and Amber Manfree In a previous blog, we presented a Grand Scheme for habitat conservation in the North Delta Arc (the Arc). This follows up on our earlier broad vision...
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Blacklock Marsh: Tidal Habitat No Panacea for Thoughtful Restoration
by John Durand and Peter Moyle Returning open tidal exchange to diked lands is a primary goal of Delta restoration, driven by the 2008 Biological Opinion from USFWS. This document requires 8000 acres...
View ArticleAdvice on Voluntary Settlements for California’s Bay-Delta Water Quality...
by Jeffrey Mount, PPIC Water Policy Center Recommendation The State Water Resources Control Board and the parties seeking to incorporate voluntary settlement agreements in the Bay-Delta Water Quality...
View ArticleAdvice on Voluntary Settlements for California’s Bay-Delta Water Quality...
by Jeffrey Mount, PPIC Water Policy Center* Recommendation By strategically linking freshwater flow releases with the management of tidal energy and investments in landscape changes in the Delta, it is...
View ArticleAdvice on Voluntary Settlements for California’s Bay-Delta Water Quality...
by Jeffrey Mount, PPIC Water Policy Center* Recommendation Improving Delta ecosystem functions under the State Water Board’s proposed Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan will require a complex series...
View ArticleResurrecting the Delta for Desirable Fishes
by Peter Moyle, Carson Jeffres, John Durand The Delta is described in many ways. When extolling the Delta as a tourist destination, it is described as a place of bucolic beauty; islands of productive...
View ArticleInitial Sampling of the Carp-DEUM Project
By Kim Luke, John Durand, Rachel McConnell, Aaron Sturtevant, Nina Suzuki, Andrew L. Rypel This spring, the Carp-Dependent Urgent Management (Carp-DEUM) Project began its first round of sampling in the...
View ArticlePicture this research – a photo blog from the Center for Watershed Sciences
by Scientists at CWS Holidays are a natural time of introspection on who we are, what we do, and why. Towards a bit of our own self-reflection, some researchers from UC Davis’ Center for Watershed...
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