April 3, 2005
The Trinity River is a coastal river in northern California. In the early 1960’s, 90% of its flow was diverted to the Sacramento River, with serious impacts to the ecosystem and the salmon populations that depend on it. Over the five years ESSA worked with […]
January 3, 2005
Starting in 1989, The Nature Conservancy and its partners began to develop a strategy for ecosystem restoration on the Sacramento River, California. Initially focused on riparian revegetation, the plan moved to a study of how Shasta and Keswick Dams could be operated to better incorporate […]
December 3, 2004
In 2004 we were chosen by the Washington-based NCSSF (National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry) to study the factors that enable successful adaptive forest management (AM) and how these factors might vary across organizations and at different scales. We gleaned insights from each of […]
July 6, 2003
Work on the Okanagan Fish/Water Management Tools begins (FWMT). Against all odds, Okanagan sockeye continue to persist, with adults swimming 1000 km upstream past nine major dams on the Columbia River to spawn in the Okanagan River, and their progeny reversing the trip. ESSA has […]
June 6, 2002
ESSA staff become facilitators for the Collaborative Systemwide Monitoring and Evalutation Project (CSMEP) in the U.S. Columbia Basin. ESSA’s work in the Columbia Basin continued with a multi-watersheds project for evaluating the benefit of fish restoration projects in the U.S. Columbia Basin, and is ongoing […]