The 2014 Recovery Plan for ESU of Sacramento River Winter-run Chinook Salmon and Central Valley Spring-run Chinook and the Distinct Population of Central Valley Steelhead.

The Recovery Plan establishes a strategic approach to recovery, which identifies and prioritizes recovery actions at the Statewide, Central Valley wide, and site-specific levels.

An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Mitigation Plan for Shasta and Keswick Dams

The purpose of this report is to assess what the anadromous fish resources in the upper Sacramento River system were prior to construction of Shasta and Keswick Dams and to evaluate the effectiveness of mitigation measures designed to compensate for the loss of these resources. Information provided by this report is intended to assist the reader in answering questions regarding the specific nature and extent of mitigation requirements, including hatchery production goals and habitat maintenance. Such questions include:

Hatchery’s Child: A Winnemem Wintu History of the Baird Station Salmon Hatchery and the Formation of Fisheries Science

This paper recasts the narrative by foregrounding the oral history of the Winnemem Wintu, who contend Stone learned from them about salmon biology but ignored their most important lessons: that salmon are sentient bearers of ecological wisdom who must be followed rather than controlled and that hatcheries cannot replace the protection of riverine habitat.

Historical and Present Distribution of Chinook Salmon in the Central Valley Drainage of California

This report compiles information from historical narratives and ethnographic accounts, fishery records and locations of in-stream natural barriers to determine the historical distributional limits and, secondarily, to describe at least qualitatively the abundances of chinook salmon within the major salmon-producing Central Valley watersheds. Indi- vidual synopses are given for each of the larger streams that histori- cally supported or currently support salmon runs.

Quantifying the Effects of Side Channel Restoration on Juvenile Salmonids (Oncorhynchus spp.) in the Upper Sacramento River

This study investigates the impact of side channel restorations on juvenile salmon abundance and density.

Targeting river operations to the critical thermal window of fish incubation: Model and case study on Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon

In this framework, reservoir operations shift from mimicking historical temperature patterns to operations that target cold-water releases to the transient appearance of embryo critical windows across the riverine habitat.