Tag: chinook salmon
California Drought Response: Water Board Cuts Off Water to Thousands of Farms
The California State Water Resources Control Board announced that thousands of farmers in the Central Valley up to the Oregon Border will have their water curtailed until winter, the Globe reported Wednesday. The order “targets 4,300 ‘junior’ water rights holders...
Petition to Request Delta Smelt Be Declared Extinct will be Filed With Fish and Game
California water expert Kristi Diener notified the Globe that a petition to request the Delta Smelt fish be declared extinct is going to be filed. Diener said this has never been done before, and currently there isn’t one single petition...
Facing Dry Year, CA State Water Board is Draining California’s Folsom Lake Reservoir
Following the Globe article Friday about the state draining reservoirs even with the dry year California is facing, we noted that California’s largest reservoirs less than two years ago were absolutely teeming with water from 107% to 145% of average....
Why Do Californians Have to Choose Between Food, Agriculture, and Fish?
The long time political dispute between California farmers and state and federal water regulators predates the latest drought and will continue long after, unless some political honesty takes place. Most of the media and public officials paint California farmers and...
California House Republicans Urge Natural Resources Committee Action on California Drought
Last week, while standing in a dried out bed on Lake Mendocino, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency… but not for the entire state of California as expected. Newsom only declared a drought emergency for two Northern California counties...
Water and Drought Deceit: More Dubious Policies California Lawmakers Continue to Perpetrate
Food or Fish, Liberty or Oppression, Victim or Fighter? We Californians have many decisions to make about our future. In Climate Deceit and Dubious Policies California Lawmakers Continue to Perpetrate, we addressed unreliable solar and wind power, and China’s influence...