B ack in November, the fish-loving community was chuffed to the gills after several dead Chinook salmon carcasses floated to ...
Meanwhile, recently completed work on the river has begun to show signs of delivering on its goals of creating safe habitat for young salmon to grow and spawn on their journey to the Pacific Ocean.
The West Vancouver Steamkeepers group has carried out numerous habitat rehabilitation projects on creeks around the municipality aimed at giving returning salmon the best possible conditions to spawn ...
Chinook salmon were once abundant in the North Yuba River in California’s Sierra Nevada. But since 1941, they’ve been kept out of the chilly, clear waters by the Englebright Dam. Now, for the first ...
Several months after the start of a pilot program aiming to restore salmon runs in California’s Sierra County, Chinook salmon can be found in the North Yuba River “for the first time in close ...
Between the main stem and its tributaries there is somewhere around 40 to 50 miles of habitat that is ideal for spring-run Chinook salmon for holding, spawning and rearing,” said Colin Purdy ...
Redds are created when spawning salmon whip their tails back and forth ... a rapid stream assessment to understand the on-the-ground habitat conditions that affect watershed processes.