The fight over the health of the Sacramento/Bay delta is a fight over the most important estuary on the west coast of north America.

Central Valley irrigators had argued for removal of endangered species protections

A U.S. District Court judge has rejected an attempt by California irrigators and logging industry groups to strip protected status from five populations of wild steelhead trout.

Water user’s contention hatchery fish are adequate substitute rejected

Salmon Protection in the Northwest

Government must review treatment of hatchery and wild fish

Steelhead once returned from the ocean in the millions every year to the Sacramento and San Joaquin River systems in the Central Valley. Today, these fish have been lost from 95% of their historic habitat, and they continue to face threats from unchecked water use, blockage by dams, urban sprawl, and polluted rivers. A group…

Irrigators seek to strip federal protections from fish