San Joaquin River Restoration

From the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) staff Switchboard blog, in a post by Monty Schmitt:

This week I had a chance to travel by kayak down 23 miles of the San Joaquin River just south of Mendota, CA, with CNN reporter John Sutter, who is undertaking an ambitious journey to explore the River’s entire 360 miles – from high Sierra to the sea.

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From the Stockton Record:

“Environmentalist Jeremy Terhune will talk about the restoration of the San Joaquin River on Friday, part of the Oak Grove Nature Center’s ongoing ‘Nature Nights’ program.”

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The Water Education Foundation’s San Joaquin River Restoration Tour (Field Trip) is November 6-7.

From the Bureau of Reclamation:

“The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on April 17 to 18 are releasing 54,000 hatchery produced juvenile spring-run Chinook salmon into the San Joaquin River as part of the implementation of the San Joaquin River Restoration Program.

From the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) staff Switchboard blog, in a post by Monty Schmitt:

“Despite California’s drought, today [April 17] the San Joaquin River Restoration Program (SJRRP) is releasing 54,000 juvenile spring-run Chinook salmon to the San Joaquin River.”

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From The Fresno Bee:

“The San Joaquin River is America’s most endangered waterway this year, says the national advocacy group American Rivers, known for annually picking the country’s 10 most troubled rivers.”

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Learn more about the San Joaquin River at the Water Education Foundation’s Aquapedia, a vetted, onli

From The Fresno Bee:

“The San Joaquin flow goes dry 38 miles beyond Friant Dam — more than 200 miles short of the ocean where these young salmon need to go.

From the McClatchy Washington, D.C., Bureau:

“Clued-in Californians should quickly check out the Obama administration’s proposed Fiscal 2015 budget, because it won’t last long. …

“Some specific California projects also get a budget shout-out, including $37 million for restoring the crucial San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.