SPAWN to Remove Central California’s Top-Priority Fish Barrier This Summer | Turtle Island Restoration Network
SPAWN will remove the large structure known as Roy's Pools that currently limits the migration of endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout and creates poor habitat conditions. | Photo by SPAWN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2020 Contact: Preston Brown, Director of Watershed Co ...
Appeals Court Victory Secures Steelhead Protection on California’s Santa Clara River
Center for Biological Diversity: SAN FRANCISCO— The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed a federal court’s 2018 ruling that the United Water Conservation District violated the Endangered Species Act by jeopardizing steelhead survival and recovery in the Santa Clara River as a result of its inadequate fish ladder and diversion of river flows at the Vern Freeman Dam near Santa Paula.
