↧
Water to the sea isn’t wasted
Jeffrey Mount, UC Davis Professor of Geology In December of 2010 we had a remarkable set of storms. Relentless rain and snowfall hit both southern and northern California. The news reports about...
View ArticleFrolicking fat floodplain fish feeding furiously
Carson Jeffres, fish ecologist, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences Spring is here, temperatures are warming, and juvenile salmon have filled the floodplains—a link for them between the gravel...
View ArticleLife springs in Sierra rivers as springtime flows recede
By Sarah Yarnell and Ryan Peek In case you hadn’t heard, the annual Sierra “spring snowmelt recession” has begun. The foothill yellow-legged frog certainly knew. Adapted to the seasonal patterns of...
View Article