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Something, clearly, isn’t working, and agriculture industry lobbyists say they know what the problem is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our water delivery system is broken,” says Gayle Holman, spokesperson for Westlands Water District, a large San Joaquin Valley farming region expected to take a hard hit this year from reduced water deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Gr8fse4v90zRv9sxyPZNSirJ8tLqmkeL”]Holman argues that environmental restrictions against pumping water from the Delta are harming farmers’ livelihoods without doing any good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fish, agriculture, communities – none of them are benefiting from the precautions [against pumping],” Holman claims. “We’re seeing an overall erosion of the productivity of the Delta and the farmland south of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no doubt that fish species such as winter-run Chinook salmon, delta smelt and several others are slipping toward extinction – but why? Farm lobbyists say removal of water from the Delta has little to do with the declines and that non-native species are a bigger problem. They say striped bass are eating imperiled fishes at unsustainable rates, and over the past few years water users have supported multiple legislative efforts to cull striped bass numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Predation [on salmon] is a huge problem we haven’t addressed,” says Mike Wade, the executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, a group that lobbies for farmers statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research conducted in 2012 on the Tuolumne River by the private research firm FishBio found striped bass stuffed with baby salmon. 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Rosenfield says so much water is now being taken out of the Delta on an annual basis that what was once a thriving estuary functions today more like a large, warm-water swamp, friendly to some non-native fishes, such as black bass, catfish and sunfish, but very hostile to most native fishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These [farm groups] always want to remove the predators, and that is not the solution,” Rosenfield says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather, he maintains, restoring the Central Valley’s waterways and their seasonal flow patterns to something resembling their natural state would prompt a response in native fish numbers. It is well known that gushing winter and spring floods can essentially wash juvenile salmon safely out to sea in a protective smokescreen of mud and silt. For this reason, salmon hatcheries often release their smolts immediately after large rain events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists such as striped bass expert David Ostrach, U.C. 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Delta smelt are now considered essentially extinct in the wild. The simultaneous crash of multiple Delta fish species has been so dramatic that biologists even have a name for it – the Pelagic Organism Decline .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm lobbyists remain unconvinced. Wade, at the California Farm Water Coalition, says attributing fish declines to water diversions is erroneous and causes needless harm to growers of fruit trees and vegetable crops in the western San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no science that shows the export pumps at the south end of the Delta are having a long-term impact on salmon or delta smelt,” Wade says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the correlation between water pumping and fish declines grows even stronger when fall-run Chinook salmon are added to the equation: In the early 2000s, as the Pelagic Organism Decline began, the Sacramento’s fall run finally caved, as well. Record low returns of the fish came three years after the record high Delta exports. The entire fishery was closed for the first time in 2008. In a 2009 report , scientists with the National Marine Fisheries Service attributed the decline to a combination of poor ocean conditions as well as inland habitat problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize … that the rapid and likely temporary deterioration in ocean conditions is acting on top of a long-term, steady degradation of the freshwater and estuarine environment,” the authors wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how much water must be left to flow through the estuary? A certain amount is needed just to keep saltwater from entering the Delta and the pumps themselves. Rosenfield says that from October through March, 1.97 million acre-feet (2.43 billion cubic meters) were allowed through the Delta for this essential purpose – or about 12 percent of the water that fell as precipitation in the Central Valley drainage basin in that time. 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So, the question you have to ask is, what conditions got the fish into the striped bass’s mouth?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire ecosystem is collapsing, and striped bass numbers are plunging about as rapidly as those of salmon, smelt and other species. Rosenfield says so much water is now being taken out of the Delta on an annual basis that what was once a thriving estuary functions today more like a large, warm-water swamp, friendly to some non-native fishes, such as black bass, catfish and sunfish, but very hostile to most native fishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These [farm groups] always want to remove the predators, and that is not the solution,” Rosenfield says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather, he maintains, restoring the Central Valley’s waterways and their seasonal flow patterns to something resembling their natural state would prompt a response in native fish numbers. It is well known that gushing winter and spring floods can essentially wash juvenile salmon safely out to sea in a protective smokescreen of mud and silt. For this reason, salmon hatcheries often release their smolts immediately after large rain events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists such as striped bass expert David Ostrach, U.C. Davis’ Peter Moyle and Carson Jeffres, and California Trout’s Jacob Katz, have all argued that the loss of annual flood cycles, as well as riverside floodplain habitat, has made survival for small fish in the Central Valley’s waterways almost impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FishBio’s Doug Demko, who led the Tuolumne River research, says he has observed that young salmon do poorly when river and Delta flows are reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those low-flow and medium-flow water years, juvenile salmon mortality is extremely high,” Demko says. “In high-flow years, we get much higher survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Striped bass were introduced to California in the late 1800s. The fish took well to the Bay and Delta. As a species, they established themselves, naturalized and boomed. For about 80 years striped bass thrived. Ostrach says there may have been 4 million adult striped bass in the Bay-Delta system in the 1960s. There may have been even more in the decades prior, before close scientific fish surveys had begun. Meanwhile, Chinook salmon – especially the commercial important fall run – supported by fish hatcheries, remained fairly strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1951, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Central Valley Project began operating a massive pumping station in the southern Delta. About a decade later, the California Department of Water Resources introduced a similar pumping station to support its own conveyance system, the State Water Project. Pumping rates grew steadily from about 1.5 million acre-feet (1.8 billion cubic meters) in the 1960s to the 4 million acre-foot level by the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the decline of the Delta ecosystem began in earnest. This deterioration has been closely tracked by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, which started an annual survey called the Fall Midwater Trawl in 1967. The idea was to take a yearly snapshot of fish abundance by dragging the same-sized net over the same parcels of water on about the same days every year. In the survey’s first year, department biologists calculated an abundance index of 19,677 juvenile stripers . That number has dropped steadily since, to anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 through the 1980s and 1990s. Over the same time period, winter-run Chinook salmon, as well as salmon runs in the San Joaquin River, followed a similar downward trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the early 2000s – after a rapid increase in water pumping pushed Delta exports to record rates of more than 6 million acre-feet (7.4 billion cubic meters) – the decline accelerated, with the striper index ranging from a few dozen to about 300. Bar graphs showing the survey results for several other species look nearly the same, with abundance of each bottoming out to almost nothing in the early 2000s. Delta smelt are now considered essentially extinct in the wild. The simultaneous crash of multiple Delta fish species has been so dramatic that biologists even have a name for it – the Pelagic Organism Decline .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm lobbyists remain unconvinced. Wade, at the California Farm Water Coalition, says attributing fish declines to water diversions is erroneous and causes needless harm to growers of fruit trees and vegetable crops in the western San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no science that shows the export pumps at the south end of the Delta are having a long-term impact on salmon or delta smelt,” Wade says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the correlation between water pumping and fish declines grows even stronger when fall-run Chinook salmon are added to the equation: In the early 2000s, as the Pelagic Organism Decline began, the Sacramento’s fall run finally caved, as well. Record low returns of the fish came three years after the record high Delta exports. The entire fishery was closed for the first time in 2008. In a 2009 report , scientists with the National Marine Fisheries Service attributed the decline to a combination of poor ocean conditions as well as inland habitat problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize … that the rapid and likely temporary deterioration in ocean conditions is acting on top of a long-term, steady degradation of the freshwater and estuarine environment,” the authors wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how much water must be left to flow through the estuary? A certain amount is needed just to keep saltwater from entering the Delta and the pumps themselves. Rosenfield says that from October through March, 1.97 million acre-feet (2.43 billion cubic meters) were allowed through the Delta for this essential purpose – or about 12 percent of the water that fell as precipitation in the Central Valley drainage basin in that time. While fish are often blamed by farmers for hindering operation of the Delta pumps, endangered species protections were responsible for only 664,000 acre-feet – or 4 percent of the basin’s total precipitation – that entered the Bay in that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an average year, more than half the Central Valley’s winter–spring runoff is captured behind dams or pumped out of the Delta, according to Rosenfield. That’s too much. Scientists have calculated that a healthy Delta ecosystem would need closer to 75 percent of that flow moving through the estuary and into San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But water alone may not be enough to help the fish. Jacob Katz at California Trout says Chinook salmon also need riverside habitat that floods annually. Katz has led research showing that juvenile salmon that are given access to flooded rice fields beside the Sacramento River grow exceptionally fast and, ultimately, have vastly better odds of avoiding predators and reaching the ocean. This habitat has been mostly eliminated from California’s rivers by levees and berms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Bay-Delta’s striped bass population, it has been dwindling for years. Ostrach says there may be as few as 250,000 adults today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says there is no doubt striped bass have suffered for the same reasons as salmon and smelt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A combined set of factors has aligned against all of the [Delta’s] fisheries,” Ostrach says. “The major problem is that we no longer have a functioning estuary but have engineered an ecosystem much more similar to an Arkansas lake. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than one-tenth of the largest wild population of threatened salmon in the Central Valley died after repair work near a power plant led Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to cut off a cooling flow of water into a creek last weekend, wildlife and utility officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, the state's largest utility, restored the water flow on Wednesday to a remote stretch of Butte Creek, home to the largest of three surviving wild populations of Central Valley spring-run Chinook salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The death of 277 of the fewer than 2,000 adult chinook in the creek underscored the vulnerability of one of California's most iconic species in a drought year marked by record low amounts of cooling snow melt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salmon populations from Monterey on the central coast to the Oregon border are showing problems related to low, warm water conditions created by the driest four years in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the drought wears on, it's just going to get worse,\" Andrew Hughan, a spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said from the banks of Butte Creek, north of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesman Paul Moreno said utility crews rushed an emergency repair project on a canal to restore water flows into the creek as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can tell you that ... crews worked every day to get that back in place,\" Moreno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem began when the utility learned of leaks in a canal carrying water from a utility reservoir to PG&E hydroelectric plants. The utility shut down the canal May 29 to line a 500-foot stretch of the waterway, Moreno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the cooling flow, a hot spell last weekend brought water temperatures in the creek up to the 70s and 80s, fostering a rapid outbreak of deadly pathogens that afflict the gills of the salmon, cutting off oxygen, said Howard Brown, Sacramento River branch chief of the National Marine Fisheries Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clint Garman, a biologist with the state wildlife department, said existing conditions from the drought would have killed some of the salmon in the creek outright, but the temporary water cutoff by PG&E increased the number of deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-term, state and federal wildlife officials said, PG&E's release of water into Butte Creek has helped keep the stream's native salmon alive over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a lot of very careful management\" of water by the utility and regulators at Butte Creek, \"and in a normal year it works very well,\" Brown said. \"It's just the worst year for this kind of thing, and the timing couldn't have been worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The creek is the last, best stronghold of spring-run Chinook salmon, Garman said. Only two other creeks still hold wild populations of the Central Valley spring-run chinook. At last count, fewer than 400 adults were alive in both of those creeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chinook numbered in the tens of thousands as recently as the 1990s. California and the U.S. list them as a threatened species.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Weather:\u003c/em> Dry, still dry. Our next weak, uncertain chance for rain is late this weekend. For details: \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Federal biologists reject claims that raising Shasta Dam will aid salmon\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Less than three months after California voters approved a water bond that contains $2.7 billion for new water storage, one of the leading projects under consideration has suffered a potentially fatal setback. Biologists at the main federal agency that oversees the Endangered Species Act have concluded they cannot endorse a $1.1 billion plan to raise the height of the dam at California's largest reservoir, Shasta Lake, because of its impact on endangered salmon. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_27406666/plan-raise-shasta-dam-takes-hit-after-federal\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Wildlife agencies see collapse of winter-run chinook salmon\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Capital Public Radio)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>High water temperatures in the Sacramento River last summer and fall caused 95 percent of naturally-spawning winter-run salmon egg and fry to die. “I think this is really unprecedented, that we’ve seen this level of temperature mortality,” says Maria Rea with NOAA Fisheries. \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/01/27/wildlife-agencies-see-collapse-of-2014-winter-run-salmon/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>A rainless January reawakens drought fears\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It was an astonishing scene in the heart of winter — dozens of Pacifica residents rushing to grab whatever household valuables they could as flames raced down a coastal bluff toward their homes. Firefighters halted the blaze early Monday before it could do serious damage, but the evacuations punctuated a January that is poised to go down as the driest in California history, giving rise to summerlike conditions — including the threat of wildfire. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Destructive-extremes-California-s-dry-January-6041530.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bay Area weather radar might be in the wrong place\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Santa Cruz Sentinel)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On the shoulder of Mount Umunhum in the Santa Cruz Mountains is something that, from afar, resembles a golf ball on a stick. But it's no plaything. Inside spins the National Weather Service's main Doppler radar for the greater Bay Area. Many local weather experts, though, say it's simply in the wrong location. And how it got there is a two-decade-old tale of local weather politics that still affects Bay Area forecasts to this day. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_27386108/many-local-weather-experts-say-radar-is-simply\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dust from feedlots and factory farms: Stinky, yucky -- and dangerous\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Mother Jones)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ever approached a feedlot teeming with thousands of cattle? Unlike industrialized hog and chicken farms, where huge enclosed buildings trap at least some of the smell, cattle feedlots are open-air—as anyone who has driven Highway 5 between Los Angeles and San Francisco can testify. Turns out, when you inhale the aroma, you're not just getting a blast of ammonia and other noxious fumes. You're also probably breathing in tiny particles of antibiotics, bacteria from cows' \"fecal matter and gut flora,\" and antibiotic-resistant gene sequences. \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/01/dust-factory-farms-antibiotic-resistant-genes\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Koch Brothers cash will swamp California political contests\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The billionaire Koch brothers’ intention to spend nearly $900 million on conservative candidates and causes in the 2016 election cycle will unleash a tidal wave of cash that will swamp the political landscape even in solidly blue California, experts said Tuesday. When it comes to spreading money around, the spending plan that industrialists Charles and David Koch unveiled Monday will put the brothers and an estimated 300 conservative mega-donors in their network on a plane now occupied only by the country’s two major political parties. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Koch-brothers-cash-will-wash-over-California-6044288.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Hidden in plain sight: Santa Clara County counts its homeless\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Amid a historic boom, volunteers fan out to take a census of those who have no place to live but vacant lots and roadsides. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/28/hidden-in-plain-view-santa-clara-county-counts-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Stanford swimmer charged with raping unconscious women\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Stanford University student and star swimmer will be charged with rape after he met a woman at a campus party and assaulted her as she lay intoxicated and unconscious outside, Santa Clara County prosecutors said Tuesday. The district attorney’s office said two students on bicycles stopped to help after finding freshman Brock Allen Turner, 19, on top of the woman in the early morning hours of Jan. 18 on Lomita Court, near fraternity houses on university grounds. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Stanford-athlete-accused-of-raping-unconscious-6044286.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Local man launches campaign to ban giant S.F. waterslide\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(SF Weekly)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A guy named Paul Duffy has started a petition to put an end to the \"Slide The City\" event where thousands of waterpark enthusiasts will gather on the city streets to take a ride down the world's largest slip 'n slide. But it's not because Duffy hates fun or even slides for that matter. 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Biologists at the main federal agency that oversees the Endangered Species Act have concluded they cannot endorse a $1.1 billion plan to raise the height of the dam at California's largest reservoir, Shasta Lake, because of its impact on endangered salmon. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_27406666/plan-raise-shasta-dam-takes-hit-after-federal\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Wildlife agencies see collapse of winter-run chinook salmon\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Capital Public Radio)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>High water temperatures in the Sacramento River last summer and fall caused 95 percent of naturally-spawning winter-run salmon egg and fry to die. “I think this is really unprecedented, that we’ve seen this level of temperature mortality,” says Maria Rea with NOAA Fisheries. \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/01/27/wildlife-agencies-see-collapse-of-2014-winter-run-salmon/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>A rainless January reawakens drought fears\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It was an astonishing scene in the heart of winter — dozens of Pacifica residents rushing to grab whatever household valuables they could as flames raced down a coastal bluff toward their homes. Firefighters halted the blaze early Monday before it could do serious damage, but the evacuations punctuated a January that is poised to go down as the driest in California history, giving rise to summerlike conditions — including the threat of wildfire. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Destructive-extremes-California-s-dry-January-6041530.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bay Area weather radar might be in the wrong place\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Santa Cruz Sentinel)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On the shoulder of Mount Umunhum in the Santa Cruz Mountains is something that, from afar, resembles a golf ball on a stick. But it's no plaything. Inside spins the National Weather Service's main Doppler radar for the greater Bay Area. Many local weather experts, though, say it's simply in the wrong location. 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You're also probably breathing in tiny particles of antibiotics, bacteria from cows' \"fecal matter and gut flora,\" and antibiotic-resistant gene sequences. \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/01/dust-factory-farms-antibiotic-resistant-genes\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Koch Brothers cash will swamp California political contests\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The billionaire Koch brothers’ intention to spend nearly $900 million on conservative candidates and causes in the 2016 election cycle will unleash a tidal wave of cash that will swamp the political landscape even in solidly blue California, experts said Tuesday. When it comes to spreading money around, the spending plan that industrialists Charles and David Koch unveiled Monday will put the brothers and an estimated 300 conservative mega-donors in their network on a plane now occupied only by the country’s two major political parties. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Koch-brothers-cash-will-wash-over-California-6044288.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Hidden in plain sight: Santa Clara County counts its homeless\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Amid a historic boom, volunteers fan out to take a census of those who have no place to live but vacant lots and roadsides. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/28/hidden-in-plain-view-santa-clara-county-counts-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Stanford swimmer charged with raping unconscious women\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Stanford University student and star swimmer will be charged with rape after he met a woman at a campus party and assaulted her as she lay intoxicated and unconscious outside, Santa Clara County prosecutors said Tuesday. 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The federal court in Fresno that will hear that motion notified the agencies that no action is likely before Tuesday evening. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as three weeks ago, the bureau said it would not consider emergency water releases unless scientists saw signs that a die-off, caused by pathogens that thrive in warm, slow-moving water, was under way. But the agency signaled last week it might reconsider after members of the Hoopa Valley and Yurok tribes had an impromptu meeting in Redding with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. The tribes, along with environmental and fishing groups, argued that low flows and warm water on the river have created perfect conditions for a die-off of chinook salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For them to turn around and release the flows in this emergency situation is certainly a win for the fish,” said Robert Franklin, senior hydrologist with Hoopa Valley Tribal Fisheries, after the bureau announced its decision. He added that the planned release should be effective in heading off a deadly complex of maladies, especially a condition called gill rot and a parasite known as Ich (for \u003ca href=\"http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fa006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ichthyophthirius multifiliis\u003c/a>) that can kill salmon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin said the last-minute nature of the bureau’s decision showed the need for better advance planning in times of drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tribe has been on this since February, writing Secretary Jewell about the coming problem as the drought became very, very apparent,” Franklin said. “… So we’re wanting very much to have our eyes on the strategic planning and have something in place that keeps us from having to hurry up and do this with very little time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sldmwa.org/statement-82214-reclamation-announces-dump-water-thousands-stand-line-food-handouts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">But in a statement\u003c/a>, Dan Nelson, the executive director of the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, blasted the water releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, United States Bureau of Reclamation announced it will dump precious Central Valley Project water while the people of our valley suffer from well-documented and widely reported social and economic destruction as a result of government policies compounded by the drought,” Nelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he questioned whether the releases are necessary to save migrating fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number of returning salmon is still well below the established level of concern. In fact, reports from field biologists, fishing guides and fishermen along the lower Klamath all indicate that the prevalent fish in the river is steelhead, not chinook salmon. There are no reports of any disease outbreak, which was the requisite condition for change Reclamation established just weeks ago. The only condition that has changed is the increase in volume in the voices of a few special interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the releases, David Murillo, the bureau’s mid-Pacific regional director, said conditions on the lower Klamath are “unprecedented” and require the agency to take emergency action. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision was made based on science and after consultation with tribes, water and power users, federal and state fish regulatory agencies, and others,” Murillo said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hoopa Valley and Yurok tribes have a unique role in questions surrounding the Klamath-Trinity salmon fishery. The tribes \u003ca href=\"http://www.triplicate.com/News/Local-News/The-right-to-fish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enjoy federally protected fishing rights\u003c/a> to salmon and steelhead in the rivers and some of their tributaries, a status confirmed by \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries/reports/tamwg/meeting15_march06/Fishing%20Rights%20of%20the%20Yurok%20and%20Hoopa%20Valley%20Tribes%20October%205,%201993%20%20Solicitor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an Interior Department legal opinion in 1993\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135257\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/salmon-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-135257\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/salmon-1-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Kenny Belov, co-owner of 2xSea, holds a fresh-caught chinook salmon (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenny Belov, co-owner of TwoXSea, holds a fresh-caught chinook salmon. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The commercial fishing season for salmon off our piece of the Northern California coast opened last Thursday. Boats are starting to come into port with loads of the big fish — called king salmon by some, chinook by others, and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/fish/chinooksalmon.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Oncorhynchus tshawytscha\u003c/a>\u003c/em> by the truly geeky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alerted to the arrival of boats at San Francisco's Pier 45 on Tuesday, photographer Mark Andrew Boyer went to check out the scene. He encountered some beautiful fish and a couple of the best people in the Bay Area to talk about them, fisherman Larry Collins and Kenny Belov, a restaurateur and wholesaler of sustainable fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fish being landed now are so beautiful, the sight of them is so intoxicating, that it's easy to forget how fragile their continued existence is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the salmon the commercial fleet is bringing in by line and hook are Sacramento River fall-run chinook. Unlike most other California salmon, the Sacramento River fish have not been listed as endangered or threatened under federal and state law. But along with other California salmon, their survival is a subject of concern. A crash in the Sacramento fall-run population led to a two-year shutdown of the fish in 2008 and 2009 and severe restrictions on catching them in 2010. Their numbers, hugely dependent on the production of juvenile salmon at Central Valley hatcheries, have recovered since then, and a big harvest by recent standards is expected this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought is casting a shadow over the future of the fish and those who depend on them for a living. This year, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/27/video-baby-salmon-trucked-to-delta\" target=\"_blank\">federal and state hatchery managers are trucking 30 million baby salmon\u003c/a> from hatcheries to the Delta or all the way to San Francisco Bay — the only way, they say, that any of the young fish would ever reach the ocean this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are Boyer's conversations with Larry Collins and Kenny Belov:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry Collins, \u003ca href=\"http://sfcfa.com/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Community Fishing Association\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"We're getting everyone's first salmon trip of the year. There's some nice-looking fish coming in, so we're getting some fish in the pipeline here. I think I hear barbecues firing up all over town. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fish are always a little smaller at the beginning of the year. I'd say we're averaging 10-pound or 11-pound fish, and I've seen up to maybe 18-pounders. They get larger as they feed all summer -- they tend to put on about an inch and a pound a month over the summer. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody has been working on their boats for the last month, not getting a paycheck, just spending money and not making money. So everybody is kind of hungry right now, and they're very happy to get that first paycheck. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're lucky to live in California, where there is a population of king salmon. California is the biggest producer of king salmon, even more than Alaska. We have the Sacramento fish, we have the Klamath fish — those are two big runs in California — and the fleet this year will probably catch 300,000 fish. And if they do, there should be plenty of salmon all summer long.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135275\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/salmon-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-135275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/salmon-2-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh-caught salmon sit on ice at TwoXSea at Pier 45 (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresh-caught salmon sit on ice at TwoXSea at Pier 45 (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenny Belov, co-owner of TwoXSea:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Our first boats unloaded on Sunday night. ... So far, everyone has been really pleased with the quality and the size. It's not completely wide open with a whole bunch of fish, but there's definitely some fish on the market. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're seeing about a 12- to 14-pound average from our boats. The quality is phenomenal. They're a nice, beautiful deep red -- they've been feeding on krill. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way we judge quality is how many scales are on the fish. How did the boats treat their fish? For us, that's really important, and it starts when the fish first comes out of the water. Did the boat let the fish thrash around on the deck of the boat, or was it gently coddled, put into a slush and then brought back? ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Salmon is critical for the local economy in all the coastal communities. It starts from the boats and the price that they are receiving for their fish; and then it goes to the hoist operators who are unloading the fish; then it comes to the wholesalers who are processing the fish and distributing the fish to restaurants; and then those restaurants are turning it around and selling it to the consumers. ... The trickle-down effect is huge for this species and this fishery.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135276\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/salmon-3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-135276\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/salmon-3-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Kenny Belov, co-owner of TwoXSea, cuts a piece of salmon (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenny Belov, co-owner of TwoXSea, cuts a piece of salmon. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_16371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/04/Healdsburg_4493.jpg\" alt=\"A woman and her dog sit by a shrunken stretch of the Russian River in Healdsburg, Sonoma County. (Craig Miller/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16371\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman and her dog sit by a shrunken stretch of the Russian River in Healdsburg, Sonoma County. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With California’s reservoirs and snowpack \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/03/18/into-the-drought-californias-shrinking-reservoirs/\">still far below normal\u003c/a>, state officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.ca.gov/drought/top-story-4.html\">released a plan\u003c/a> on Wednesday that outlines how they’ll manage meager water supplies during the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody has enjoyed the recent storm events more than I have,” said Mark Cowin, who heads the Department of Water Resources. “But it’s pretty clear that our dry and warm weather has returned and I expect that the reality of drought will become much more apparent to us all moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a diplomatic way of saying that water managers are walking a tightrope this year, balancing three competing needs: how much water to deliver to people and agriculture, how much to provide for wildlife and how much to save for next year, in case it’s just as dry. Here’s how they propose to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water for People\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water districts around the state have already been warned to expect \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/21/federal-water-project-announces-deep-drought-cuts/\">no water deliveries\u003c/a> from the two main projects in California, the State Water Project and the federally operated Central Valley Project. While drinking water needs would be met, agricultural water would be cut, leading many farmers to fallow some of their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent storms have lifted conditions out of the worst-cast scenario for which the state was planning. So far, that extra water is earmarked for two purposes. Some is going to water districts that were already owed water from last year, because at the time, they opted to carry the supply over to this year instead of using it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some water is going to holders of “senior” water rights. Under California’s complex system of rights, they’re first in line to have their needs met. That includes rights holders on the Feather River, north of Sacramento, and San Joaquin River exchange contractors in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to how much districts with “junior” rights will get, state officials left the door open on what their final water deliveries would be, saying they’re still analyzing the effects of recent storms on the \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/04/01/sierra-snowpack-better-but-far-from-whats-needed-for-drought/\">Sierra snowpack\u003c/a>, and that a reassessment may come later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water for Wildlife\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also suspending some rules designed to protect endangered salmon and fish in the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/series/ca-delta/\">Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta\u003c/a>. The standards specify the amount of freshwater in the ecosystem, as well as the quality and temperature – all factors that help chinook salmon, steelhead and Delta smelt survive and reproduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposal falls far short of being a balanced plan,” says Kate Poole of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “It calls for the Central Valley Project and State Water Project to violate upstream water temperature requirements, waive water quality standards and violate pumping restrictions in the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”912fb154015396400e782621b5625d64″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what we’re doing is finding maximum flexibility under existing law and trying to balance multiple needs in a third dry year,” said Chuck Bonham of California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The toll on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/02/12/drought-leads-to-tough-tradeoffs-for-california-salmon/\">endangered winter-run chinook salmon\u003c/a> could be substantial. Adult salmon lay their eggs in the Sacramento River during the summer. To survive, the eggs and young salmon rely on cold water, which is released from Shasta Dam. Under the worst-case scenario, water in the river would be too warm for salmon by the end of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a serious situation for that species,” says Maria Rea of NOAA Fisheries. The plan includes increased monitoring of salmon. 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Demand for drinking water from state and federal projects could be even higher next year, as water districts lean heavily on local supplies to meet needs this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls for 1 million acre-feet of water to be reserved in Lake Oroville this year. (One acre-foot is about 325,000 gallons, about what two California household use in a year.) 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