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 group said the lizards vanished from 85 percent of their San Joaquin Desert habitat — in the Diablo Range, Carrizo Plain, and southwestern San Joaquin Valley.

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 ...

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 ...

Three key water projects mean new supplies for San Joaquin Valley farmers ... and more than 135,000 acres of managed wetlands of importance to millions of migratory waterfowl traversing the ...

Even as blue skies return, flood-weary farmers in the San Joaquin Valley have only to look east, to the towering Sierra mantled in snow, to know there is worse to come.

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.

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 ...

"Groundwater recharge at scale could solve up to 25% of the San Joaquin Valley's overdraft problem," said Joe Choperena, Sustainable Conservation's project director of water resources.

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 ...