Robert Yost of the California Conservation Corps plants an Oregon Ash tree just one of 225 plants per acre going toward restoration efforts at the Wildlife Refuge, on Friday Jan. 11, 2013, in San ...

The PPIC found that at least 500,000 acres of San Joaquin Valley cropland will need to be fallowed in the next 20 years. The institute initially calculated that figure four years ago.

In comparison, the San Joaquin Valley lacks expansive areas where the river can sprawl. River Partners is nearing completion on a 2,000-acre floodplain project called Dos Rios Ranch Preserve at the ...

The federal government and some 10 water districts are ponying up $1.1 billion to expand California’s largest reservoir south of the Delta. Their plan is to raise the dam at San Luis Reservoir ...

Lessons from the San Joaquin Valley’s past. Crops that can survive mostly on rainfall, such as winter wheat, were once common on the San Joaquin Valley, but they fell out of favor with the ...

Fight to remove invasive species from San Joaquin County wetlands continues 02:41. SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY – Nutria, a giant rodent also called the swamp rat, is continuing to invade California's ...

The San Joaquin Valley recently received some good news about its groundwater: We are replenishing more of it whenever we have the chance. Comparing two recent wet years — 2017 to 2023 — the ...

SOMMER: Eric Hopson is refuge manager at the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge. The river here has gone over its banks, swamping stands of cottonwood trees. We spot a beaver among them.

Nutria, which may grow up to 2 feet long, weigh 20 pounds, and eat a quarter of their body weight in vegetation each day, have been multiplying in California’s San Joaquin Valley and spreading ...

Huge San Joaquin Valley reservoir is expanding. Much of the water is headed ... a million acres of farmland and 135,000 acres of Pacific Flyway Wetlands,” according to a Bureau of Reclamation ...