Fisheries technicians and Yurok tribal members, Josh Jimenez-McQuillen (right) and Aldaron McCovey (left), survey Blue Creek to count salmon © Kevin Arnold

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Appeals Court Victory Secures Steelhead Protection on California’s Santa Clara River

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.