Blog: Petition against Sites Reservoir reaches 50,000 signatures after a deadly year for winter-run salmon
Just before the California Department Fish and Wildlife released a New Year’s Eve letter revealing that only 2.6 percent of juvenile Chinook salmon had survived lethally warm water conditions on the Sacramento River, a petition sponsored by Save California Salmon in opposition to the Sites Reservoir reached 50,000 signatures. … Sites Reservoir is opposed by California Tribal representatives, environmental justice groups, conservation organizations and fishing groups …