restoration Archives

Valley salmon are riding high in the high flows of the San Joaquin River

March 24, 2023

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

Life is good for spring-run salmon in the San Joaquin River. As Friant Dam in Fresno County dumps excess water into the river, salmon are going to be able to traverse the entire waterway, a rare occurrence because of dams, drought and other obstructions that have hindered the natural path of the fish. The excess…

Drought • Rivers

VIDEO: Restoring salmon on the San Joaquin during three years of drought

May 25, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

A legal settlement in 2006 created the San Joaquin River Restoration Program to reestablish the spring-run Chinook salmon population that once thrived there. The program has created a native population through careful breeding and water management. Towns Burgess, lead fish biologist with the restoration program, explains how it has been operating through three years of…

Rivers

Salmon program takes giant leap thanks to land donation

August 30, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

One farmer has single handedly ramped up the pace of a program trying to save native salmon in the San Joaquin River by donating a key sliver of land to the federal government. Connley Clayton donated about eight acres of his Madera County riverfront land to the government’s San Joaquin River Restoration Program. The land…

NEWS

Valley salmon are riding high in the high flows of the San Joaquin River

VIDEO: Restoring salmon on the San Joaquin during three years of drought

Salmon program takes giant leap thanks to land donation

Subscribe To Our Weekly Newsletter & Get Email Notifications