CDFW Awards $13.2 Million for Fisheries Habitat Restoration and Forest Legacy Projects
by CDFW, DECEMBER 5, 2018


The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) today announced the selection of 41 projects that will receive funding for the restoration, enhancement and protection of anadromous salmonid habitat in California watersheds, as well as forest legacy restoration. The grants, which total $13.2 million, are distributed through CDFW’s Fisheries Restoration Grant Program (FRGP). They include $994,421 allocated for timber legacy restoration...
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What Lies Ahead for Water this Winter
by FISHBIO, DECEMBER 5, 2018


Around this time of year, water managers and those of us working in fisheries in California and across the West start asking, “What is the water outlook for winter?” Will dry conditions persist and move us into another prolonged drought like that of 2012-2016, or will we receive record rain and snow that swell our rivers and flood communities like in 2017? Or...
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Commercial Dungeness Crab Season to Open in Sonoma County
by CDFW, DECEMBER 3, 2018


California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Director Charlton H. Bonham issued a declaration to open the commercial Dungeness crab fishery from Bodega Head, Sonoma County north to the Sonoma/Mendocino county line. The area from the southern boundary of Bodega Head State Marine Reserve, Sonoma County (38° 18’ N. latitude) north to the Sonoma/Mendocino county line (38° 46.125’ N. latitude) was closed due...
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Commission meets Dec. 7 in Salem to adopt urban deer pilot program rules, groundfish regulations
by ODFW, DECEMBER 3, 2018


The Fish and Wildlife Commission meets Friday, Dec. 7 in Salem at ODFW HQ, 4034 Fairview Industrial Drive SE, Salem. The meeting begins at 8 a.m. and follows this agenda. The meeting agenda includes approval of rules for a new urban deer control pilot program. The 2017 Oregon Legislature passed SB 373, which called for the development of a pilot program to...
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Chetco River Officially Opens to All Techniques
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, DECEMBER 1, 2018
Chetco River

Gear restrictions were officially lifted on the Chetco and Winchuck Rivers last Tuesday, when an onslaught of back-to-back low-pressure systems in southern Oregon and northern California created numerous freshets, raising the streams and allowing stranded salmon and steelhead to escape upriver. It also beckoned late fall Chinook and early winter steelhead to enter the river as well. “We are back on track...
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BLM Mother Lode Field Office Lifts Emergency Fire Restrictions
by BLM, NOVEMBER 30, 2018


The Bureau of Land Management Mother Lode Field Office is lifting its emergency fire restrictions at 9 a.m., Nov. 30, on approximately 230,000-acres of public land, due to reduced wildland fire potential. This action will reopen target shooting on public lands in all or portions of 14 central California counties. The easing of fire restrictions apply to public lands managed by...
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