This year salmon will have additional help when they navigate the fish ladder over Daguerre Point Dam on their way to spawning grounds in the Lower Yuba River.  Last week, federal Judge Lawrence K. Karlton directed the Army Corps of Engineers to improve fish passage at Daguerre by optimizing flows through the fish ladder, more [...]

Come experience the remarkable journey of fall-run Chinook Salmon as they return from the sea to their ancestral spawning grounds!!!  In partnership with river guides from Environmental Travel Companions, SYRCL River Science Staff will be leading floats this fall down the Lower Yuba River. This salmon run is unique in the fact that the Yuba [...]

Tuesday, June 14, 2011, Nevada County Supervisors Hank Weston and Ted Owens will ask their fellow Supervisors to sign onto a letter protesting the closures of Malakoff Diggins and SouthYuba River State Parks. Though not yet closed, these parks are slated for closure either later this year or sometime into next year. What these Supervisors [...]

May is the peak month for wild spring-run salmon to enter the Yuba River.  These rare fish are listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act because over 90% of their historic spawning habitat is blocked by dams, and remnant populations are constrained to the lower reaches of rivers.  Yuba River spring-run salmon persist in [...]

Jason Rainey, SYRCL Executive Director, and Joshua Stark, SYRCL Yuba Salmon Now! Campaign Manager will be interviewed by Ed Martin on KDVS, (93.4 FM radio), a University of California, Davis radio station.  KDVS is an independent community freeform radio station.  Tune in Friday, May 27, 2011 from 5-6 pm to hear the latest from Jason [...]

MEDIA RELEASE:  Embargoed for 12:01am May 17, 2011 Yuba named one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers Salmon at risk if Army Corps doesn’t provide passage around dam Contacts: Steve Rothert, American Rivers, (530) 277-0448, srothert@americanrivers.org Jason Rainey, South Yuba River Citizens League, (530) 265-5961, jason@syrcl.org Nevada City, CA – Outdated dams are preventing salmon recovery [...]

It’s been a busy start to 2011 for SYRCL’s salmon campaign, as well as for the salmon of the Yuba and those throughout “Salmon Nation.”  I’d like to introduce and welcome our new Yuba Salmon Now! campaign manager, Joshua Stark, who’ll be providing more frequent updates to this website, compiling relevant “salmon news” and coordinating [...]

SYRCL supporters have been hearing about it for years: Relicensing of the hydropower projects on the Yuba is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to restore river health to the many impacted river reaches in the Yuba Basin. “FERC re-licesensing” is also critical to SYRCL’s strategy for restoring salmon to suitable habitats in the upper Yuba River. Next [...]

July 13, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Jason Rainey, Executive Director, SYRCL: 530 264-6879; jason@syrcl.org Chris Sproul, Lead Attorney, Environmental Advocates csproul@enviroadvocates.com Steve Evans, Conservation Director, Friends of the River, (916) 442-3155, Ext. 221 Court Victory for Yuba Salmon Two Federal Dams in Violation of Salmon Protection Laws Sacramento, CA -  After decades of mismanagement, [...]