2025 is the year for salmon success in California’s Yuba River. A nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the watershed has positive results to share this year. … The South Yuba River Citizens League, or SYRCL, is leading the charge when it comes to salmon restoration in the Yuba watershed. … And for 2025, they’ve recorded 6,200 adult chinook salmon and counting, the most they’ve seen in more than a decade. … Restoration science is being implemented around the state, with many other streams and waterways seeing similar results. And being a keystone species, salmon play a critical role in our ecosystems and represent healthy waterways.