State officials and the nonprofit Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project are set to release 160,000 juvenile chinook salmon off the Santa Cruz Wharf after dusk Wednesday, with the public invited to watch and learn more about efforts to boost the local population.
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State Parks studies new amenities for Big Basin visitors center lost to CZU fire
Nearly three years after the CZU Lightning Complex fires severely damaged Big Basin Redwoods State Park, officials are embarking on a public process to determine how to rebuild some of the facilities lost to fire and make the park more resilient to climate change. The Sempervirens Fund will host a free online webinar Tuesday to kick off public correspondence.
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California’s blistering heat sparked power shortages last summer. Here’s this year’s forecast
State officials say the winter’s wild weather helped refill hydropower generators, decreasing the risk of dangerous electricity outages this summer.
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Colorado River deal offers reprieve, but long-term water crisis remains
California, Arizona and Nevada’s three-year agreement to cut use of Colorado River water, in a deal backed by federal funds, is only a temporary fix.
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California state officials announce new plans for salmon habitat restoration
After this year’s commercial and recreational salmon season was shut down, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to build a fishway that will enable salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and lamprey to get around the Daguerre Point Dam on the Yuba River.
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Yosemite’s Mist Trail hike with majestic waterfall views to get $5 million upgrade
Mist Trail will receive a $5 million upgrade to its 7-mile round-trip hike at Yosemite National Park that takes visitors to views of Vernal and Nevada falls.
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El Niño is back, bringing disruption, danger for California, world: ‘We need to be prepared’
A strong El Niño could augur yet another wet winter for California, as well as drive the global average temperature to a record high, experts say.
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Newsom touts $60 million plan for ‘fishway’ along Yuba River; critics say it falls short
Officials announce plans to build a channel around DaGuerre Point Dam, so that salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and lamprey can access spawning habitat upstream.
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After landslide, an Orange County beach town finds itself between a bluff and a hard place
A landslide beneath the historic Casa Romantica in San Clemente underscores the threat of coastal instability exacerbated by last winter’s powerful storms.
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77 fewer tons of trash made it into the ocean thanks to this experimental L.A. County device
The Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor 007 collected nearly 154,000 pounds of trash in the first rainy season of its two-year pilot project.