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The Environment’s Right to Water: A PPIC Water Policy Center Article

In this very polarized political climate, any mention of leaving water in rivers, streams and reservoirs for the environment stirs up debate. The fight over water rights is nothing new in California. But in our region in particular, the debate is coming to a head. The State Water Resources Control Board is in the process […]

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CSERC Volunteers did good in 2018

2018 was another successful year of organizing and carrying out volunteer stewardship and restoration projects for CSERC staff and volunteers. 11 workdays with 690 hours of service and 92 participants! Liz Gregg, CSERC’s associate director is the coordinator for our Center’s volunteer projects. She shared “I think the reason that I love organizing these projects is […]

They’re here! Chinook salmon arrive in our local rivers

Chinook salmon have made the long, arduous journey from the Pacific Ocean to our local rivers to spawn. Chinook salmon are an anadromous fish species. They are born in freshwater, move downstream to the ocean to live and grow for most of their life, and then return to freshwater to spawn (usually to the same […]

DIRECTORS REPORT – OCTOBER 2018

THE SOUTH GROVE OF BIG TREES PARK – A GREAT FALL DESTINATION! On Friday, a volunteer and I spent a good portion of the day retrieving four of CSERC’s wildlife photo-detection stations from scattered sites far out in a roadless area in the Stanislaus Forest. During our 8 miles of hiking for the day, we […]

Turkeys, Turkeys, Turkeys…. their population is growing

Back between 1900 and 1950, thousands of farm-raised turkeys were introduced into California wildlands by the State Fish and Game Commission with a goal to provide sport for hunters. The turkeys only managed to survive at marginal levels in most areas. So between 1959 and 1999, the California State Department of Fish and Game paid […]

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NEW USFS OVER-SNOW PLAN THREATENS QUIET WINTER RECREATION AND WILD PLACES

              The Stanislaus Forest recently released a new version of its Over-Snow Vehicle Management Plan.  That OSV plan is the latest attempt by the Forest Service to identify areas where snowmobile use is allowed within the vast local national forest, while supposedly ensuring that quiet recreation visitors to the forest also have places to safely […]