The Trump administration has ended federal funding for a captive breeding program for California’s endangered delta smelt, threatening the future of the fish that the president blames for burdensome ...

Pity the poor delta smelt. The tiny fish, which seldom grows to more than four inches or lives longer than a year, was once abundant in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It was an important link ...

If we are to take seriously the threats of drought, climate change and water security, we should not reduce this place to a ...

Donald Trump has taken more shots at me than at Vladimir Putin. He called me a “worthless fish” on Truth Social. And worst of ...

More than three decades after being listed for protection, California’s delta smelt is “functionally extinct.” The Trump administration could hasten its demise. At just 3 inches long ...

Members of the California Water Commission got a riparian reprieve from the stuffy confines of a Sacramento board room when ...

Smitty," now spends time on the seas with aspiring whale watchers, or scattering the ashes of the deceased — whatever it takes to stay afloat since salmon fishing was barred in California two years ...

Today, I’m extinct in the wild. And the delta smelt captive breeding program (it’s even less sexy than it sounds), has struggled to produce more of me — and may soon be dead. The Trump ...

Guest Opinion. In January 2025, with the epic fire destruction of the Palisades home development area and surrounding regions of Los Angeles, poor resource management became very real and experienced.

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