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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Sacramento River"”.
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An Analysis of Juvenile Chinook Salmon Outmigration Speed and Survival in Response to Habitat Features: Sacramento River from Knights Landing to Sacramento, California
… tshawytscha</em>) survival in the Sacramento River, and yet our understanding of their behavior and needs during this time is limited. To gain a better understanding of their survival and movement rates during outmigration, late fall run Chinook salmon smolts were tracked using …
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Impacts of Reservoir Operations with Extreme Hydrologic and Climatic Conditions on Fish Sustainability below Shasta Lake
Reservoir managers on the Sacramento River are required by law to provide artificial cold water habitat downstream for endangered winter-run Chinook salmon. At Shasta Lake, a temperature control device was installed on Shasta Dam that allows selective withdrawal of reservoir water at different …
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The distribution and accumulation of mercury, lead, and cadmium in selected species of the northern California intertidal mussel bed
… which flows all waters from the San Joaquin and Sacramento River drainages and from the San Francisco Bay area itself. The second site, immediately north of the Dillon Beach township, located at the juncture of Bodega and Tomales Bays, was chosen since it might represent a water mass of minimum …
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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo's Relations with the Indians of California's Northern Frontier: 1825-1842
… Bay north to the Oregon border and from the Sacramento River west to the Pacific Ocean.</p> <p>Vallejo was virtual lord and master of the region, exercising control over all military forces, Mexican and American colonists, and the California Indians (both neophytes and gentiles). Commenting …
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Sediment wave-induced channel evolution following the 2006 avulsion of the Suncook River in Epsom, New Hampshire
Large volumes of sediment can be released into a river when an avulsion carves a new channel in the landscape. Gilbert (1917) described the evolution of a similar pulse of material from mining along the Sacramento River, California as a sediment wave. Sediment waves are transient accumulations of …
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Fish and mammals of the lower Calaveras River, Stockton, CA
<p>The San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta (SJSRD) of California is a riparian habitat that sadly represents the destructive forces and consequences of human impacts. A tributary to the SJSRD, the Calaveras River in Stockton, California, is a par1icularly degraded riparian system that recently has …
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An epic of water and power : a history of the Modesto Irrigation District
… South. The Great Valley is really two distinct river valleys further divided by lesser stream valleys. The Sacramento River Valley is about 500 miles long and forms the northern half; and the San Joaquin Valley is about 350 miles long and forms the southern half. For many practical purposes …
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Terrestrial-Aquatic Linkages: Watershed (Geologic and Vegetation) Runoff Influences on Primary Production of a Sub Alpine Lake
… Lake, a small sub-alpine lake basin of the Upper Sacramento River Watershed, and to estimate nutrient input and timing through measurements of runoff and springs. Inflows were categorized by water source type (streams, waterfalls, other overland flow, litter interflow, or springs), vegetation type …
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Environmental Flow Regime Recommendations for the Promotion of Salicaceae Seedling Recruitment in California’s Central Valley
<p><em>Rivers around the world are being degraded due to alteration of natural flow regimes caused by the creation of dams and diversions to serve human needs for water. Alteration to natural flow regime affects a river’s flow magnitude, frequency, duration, timing, and rate of change of flow. …