Newsom visits League’s Orick Mill site to talk about salmon restoration
onNewsom visits Orick Mill site to talk about new state salmon strategy
Celebrating 50 years of the Endangered Species Act
onOil prices were skyrocketing. Gerald Ford was stepping into Spiro Agnew’s tarnished VP shoes. The Exorcist was nominated for Best Picture. Such was the national landscape on December 28, 1973, when President Richard Nixon signed one of the country’s most …
Prairie Creek restoration revives salmon habitat
onInteresting fact about coast redwood forests: Researchers studying the tall trees near streams can detect marine nutrients in the wood—nitrogen isotopes that salmon have brought back to the freshwater environment. In other words, there’s a little bit of salmon in …
Exciting moments as water flows into restored Prairie Creek
onThe first thing you realize when you visit the Prairie Creek restoration project is the sheer scale of it. For someone like me who had only seen the project through photographs and maps and artist renderings, it was shocking to …
Sometimes it takes a helicopter
onUsing a helicopter to restore fish habitat in rivers and streams
Westfall Ranch
onThanks to our donors’ generous gifts, Save the Redwoods League has forever protected the scenic 77-acre Westfall Ranch and buffered the famous Headwaters Forest Reserve just south of Eureka, California.
Adventures in GPS-ing a Stream
onIt is a very common experience to pick up a map I’ve made in GIS (Geographic Information Systems, a software mapping program) and realize that there is no way the stream shown on my map is actually where the stream flows on …
Salmon Monitoring in Redwood Creek
onEach year, the League funds individual research projects that help advance our knowledge of the biology, ecology, and conservation of coast redwood and giant sequoia forests. In 2008, a grant was awarded to Walter Duffy and Michael Sparkman of Humboldt …
Salmon Numbers Fall, But Restoration Offers Hope
onVirtually all redwood forests have (or once had) streams in which salmon run and spawn. But after 150 years of damming, water diversion, logging and development, most of these fish species face extinction. Learn more about this research.
Winter habitat crucial for coho salmon, spring for Chinook
onThe coho salmon population in Del Norte County’s Mill Creek depends heavily on the quantity and quality of winter habitat for survival, according to a study by The Rowdy Creek Fish Hatchery and a team of fisheries biologists. Learn more about this research.
