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This Year’s Floods May Be Good for California’s Salmon

May 8, 2017February 24, 2017

In the mid-1990s, a scientist named Ted Sommer commuted routinely by bicycle between Davis and Sacramento, on the causeway that passes over the vast floodplain called the Yolo Bypass. At the time, state biologists had observed that numbers of Sacramento River fish increased almost every year following a wet winter. “We wondered what it was … Read more

Categories NewsTags CalTrout, floodplains, floods, salmon
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