streams

Oakland’s creeks once flowed free from the hills to the Bay. What’s their future?

Photo: Sausal Creek overflowing its banks during a rainstrom in 2022. Credit: Daniel Danzig It’s hard to tell now, but…

11 months ago

Pesticides are likely impacting invertebrate life essential to our nation’s streams

A new nationwide study by USGS scientists provides additional scientific evidence that pesticides are likely negatively impacting aquatic invertebrate community…

11 months ago

Tule River Tribe reintroducing beavers to Tulare County

Some time this spring, beavers will return to the ancestral lands of the Tule River Tribe in the Southern Sierra…

11 months ago

Can frog transplants bring an endangered species back from the brink in California?

A yellow-legged frog in its habitat rests on algae and a stick in San Benito County, Calif., on Saturday, Oct.…

1 year ago

Baby beaver sighting brings hopes of comeback for California’s little climate superheroes

Two beavers swim in Napa Creek, in Napa, in July. (Godofredo A. Vasquez / Associated Press) Bill Leikam was reviewing…

1 year ago