USGS Western Fisheries Research Center

Last year, thousands of adult Clear Lake hitch were seen swimming up the creeks and streams from Clear Lake to spawn. The number was so large that locals and biologists were regularly rescuing stranded adult and juvenile hitch from agricultural and stormwater drainage ditches along the creeks. The...

A multitude of benefits and a model for the future. That’s the result of the recently completed White Slough Tidal Wetlands Restoration Project.

A small toad found only in the remote Nevada valley for which it is named seems to have achieved what many of us only dream of, spending our days lounging in the warm water of a natural hot spring.