Exec Director
@goldenstsalmon
and Founder
@UrbanBirdfdn
, former micro/molecular biologist. Saving Natural Resources. "Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting"
"I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass!" Matt Hooper (1975) 🦈
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-YIKES! Up close to an Alligator Gar at the St. Catharine’s Creek National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi. Big ones can reach 8ft long and over 300 lbs
#nature
#fish
#TwitterNatureCommunity
Some reports say American Paddlefish have lived for 50 years+. A primitive & crazy cool
#fish
found in freshwater rivers & reservoirs - historically found from the Mississippi River basin to NY to MT & south to the Gulf of Mexico
#wildlife
#TwitterNatureCommunity
#nature
Salmon are a keystone species that people,
#wildlife
and entire ecosystems depend upon. And that's also why we were in DC this week - to safeguard and restore this incredible natural resource
We're fighting in DC this week for the livelihoods of commercial & recreational
#salmon
fishermen,
#fishing
guides, tackle shops & communities across California who depend on the environmental protections that Valadao's legislation would eliminate.
We’re continuing our endangered leatherback sea turtle hatchery project on a remote beach in Costa Rica for the upcoming nesting season. This newborn made its way to the ocean back in January 2022
#seaturtle
#wildlife
#conservation
More than 400,000 fall-run Chinook
#salmon
released in the Sacramento River at Butte City on Saturday, March 23 - a site identified in our joint project with recent good return results.
#fish
#fishing
#CAwater
Thanks for being a steadfast voice for rivers & salmon restoration, Congressman
@JaredHuffman
@RepHuffman
. Had a great & valuable time on the Klamath to see first-hand what we are protecting, together. And perhaps my ukulele skills will be good enough to jump in the next round…
Threatened spring-run
#salmon
totaled an unbelievably low return of 1,479 in 2023 on the upper Sac River. Only 106 were wild spawning fish. In a water diversion perspective, this is a drop from over 20,000 spring-run salmon at the start of the spawning season just 2 years ago.
It’s October and that means snow geese will start migrating through California. A quick video to get you in the thunderous snow geese mood before they arrive. Or maybe a chance for stupid bird humor: a blizzard of snow geese 😂
#nature
#birdsoftwitter
#wildlife
So, I built a website and collated data across 50 states to help those who find sick or injured birds. . It will continue to evolve & improve. Save those 🐦
When I get a chance to do field work it always reminds me how much time I spend indoors on a computer to save the outdoors. It’s simply rewarding to see and be surrounded by what we’re protecting.
#salmon
#conservation
#rivers
Day of Action at CA capitol yesterday. "President Trump & Gov. Newsom allowed
#water
users to divert the water
#salmon
need to survive. Gov. Newsom, please stop blocking new State Water Board protections needed to save fishing jobs and salmon runs," said Scott Artis, ed of
Don’t usually post about my dogs, but this begged to be shared. Maggie, our youngest German Shorthaired Pointer, found a book to chew while I was working. Couldn’t be a more appropriate way for this book to find its demise. 🤣
Drift ice and eagles…not what I was expecting. Steller’s sea eagle, one of the largest raptors, gathering on sea ice near Rausu Fishing Port in Hokkaido, Japan.
#birds
#nature
#TwitterNatureCommunity
Can you spot the North American wolverine?
This rare sighting happened earlier this month on the Middle Fork Salmon River in central Idaho.
Video: M. Knutson
We're raising the alarm! Since December 1, 2023, it is estimated that the Central Valley Project and State Water Project pumps together have killed approximately 3,796 wild and hatchery steelhead as they migrate through the Delta
#fish
@goldenstsalmon
State/Fed agencies must take immediate action to stop the killing of thousands of Chinook
#Salmon
and Steelhead at water export pumps in the Delta. This is the 2nd time we’ve had to take action in 2024 because of increased fish kills.
#CAwater
Fighting for salmon and healthy rivers!! Since Dec. 1, 1,274 threatened spring-run chinook & 353 endangered winter-run chinook
#salmon
have been killed in the pumps
#CAwater
I joined Mokelumne, Feather, and Nimbus fish hatchery staff for a June release of more than 665,000 fall-run baby
#salmon
at Mare Island in Vallejo. THANKS all!
Crow parents sound the alarm & mobilize an entire flock army to save a young crow not yet able to fly. Sound up and wait for the end!
#birds
#birdrescue
#wildlife
#birding
Breaking: 830,000 Calif fall-run Chinook
#salmon
fry released into Fall Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River above Iron Gate Dam, are presumed to have died due to gas bubble disease
Our
#salmon
need cold
#water
! Often the news leaves out the CRITICAL need for salmon friendly temperatures & flows in rivers. Glad to see my point was not left out in yesterday's CBS story.
Waiting for rain…and return & spawning of critically
#endangered
Central California Coast coho
#salmon
. We removed a small dam, completed floodplain restoration, installed a pedestrian bridge & planted local ecotype native plants/trees from our nursery. Then (2021)/now (2022)
The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted today to finalize the ocean salmon season’s closure – a drastic step due to low
#salmon
ocean abundance numbers caused by
#CAwater
policy failures
Thanks to all those who just don���t walk by. Reminds me of my big buddy, Banjo. Picked up by animal control, starving and injured. Deemed “not adoptable” as he required immediate eye surgery, he was going to be euthanized in 48 hrs…500-mile roundtrip, eye surgery the next day,
Creating smiles and future ocean, watershed and salmon fishery stewards. We partnered with the SF Salesian Boys & Girls Club to get kids on boats,
#fishing
, experiencing the SF Bay and learning about natural resources.
I need your help. We need
@CAgovernor
to protect
#water
resources for communities, fish and
#environment
! Our coalition of tribes & orgs are taking the fight to the capitol. If you're in CA, please sign our
#petition
!
💯THIS👉“The relationship between [water] flow & temperature cannot be overstated,” testified Regina Chichizola regarding the protection of
#salmon
populations,
@SaveCaliSalmon
, at today’s CA State Water Resources Control Board Workshop on Bay-Delta Voluntary Agreements.
@CAwater
Critically endangered leatherback
#seaturtle
hatchery project in Eastern El Salvador. We're supporting this work to protect nests/eggs from poachers and save this species.
Cutting flows during
#salmon
outmigration is not how we get healthy runs! Shasta’s outflow has been cut unnaturally from 17,000+ cfs to 4,200 cfs in mere days. Dramatic reductions trap baby salmon in pools who need rescuing
#CAwater
Was at Mare Island today and stumbled upon Corlee, a
#mermaid
sculpture created for the Duke and Duchess of Chatsworth in Derbyshire, England as part of the Radical Horizons Exhibit: The
#Art
of Burning Man in 2022.
When it’s hot in Napa and wine won’t properly cool, there’s only one solution - visit the local tiki bar and order a “Maximum Aloha!”
#BeatTheHeat
#napa
It’s just not a proper Saturday date night unless you’re joined by 420,000 baby
#salmon
beginning their
#ocean
journey at Fort Baker Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Sausalito
Look closely: The darker whale here has the tell-tale tusk of a narwhal—recently “adopted” by these belugas in Canada. See full video, story:
@BaleineMagazine
.
Video courtesy Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals (GREMM)
California Fish and Game Commission just closed 2024 salmon fishing on Central Valley and Klamath Basin Rivers for a second year. Low
#salmon
abundance numbers caused by state water policy failures.
In 2010 I created my 1st animation while fighting to protect a colony of
#burrowingowls
– the message still holds up, animation not so much😂. Those owls were the catalyst that changed my life and career path. It’s 13 years later & I’m still saving
#owls
and
#wildlife
#nostalgia
Thanks to
@ASAFishing
for leading this letter we joined them on in response to the need for development of chemical alternatives to 6PPD, an anti-degradant universally used to improve tire durability but found to induce rapid mortality in Coho
#salmon
In response to a House Appropriations Subcommittee letter, language to reduce
#fish
toxicity & direct EPA to partner w/ industry on identifying environmentally-friendly alternatives was successfully included in 2024 House Interior report.
#salmon
Fixed it! They are threatened by so many things from CA’s water policies that reduce rivers to a trickle and raise water temps to levels that kill
#salmon
eggs.
Secretary Crowfoot said, “They [salmon] are threatened by so many things including pollution.”
The second photo in the primates in
#captivity
piece I worked on that is an emotional shot to the heart. There’s so much that could be said of this imagery but I think it speaks for itself…if only someone spoke for this gorilla.
There’s litigation over the Sites CEQA &
@goldenstsalmon
& many partners are involved w/ Sites water rights protest at the Water Board. We have a tough fight with this
#salmon
killing project but it’s not over!
#CAwater
Per the Mercury News: Biden signed a package of bills that
Primates in
#captivity
piece I worked on and continue to be haunted by this moment. And I remain
#heartbroken
by the context that proceeded it. The eyes tell the story this chimpanzee…
@peta
“We’re missing the big picture, and the big picture is the flows and the temperature to save fish,” said Scott Artis. “California’s water policies really are just one devastating blow after the other…”
#salmon
#CAwater
I attended a meeting today with our
@SeaTurtles_org
Gulf of Mexico team regarding microplastics...it’s a stunning and pervasive problem we are working on - stating the obvious,
#plasticpollution
is something that affects everyone & requires the help of everyone
#marinedebris
SFPUC “could take a more fish-friendly approach, releasing more water through O’Shaughnessy Dam into the Tuolumne River while still providing adequate supplies for customers," said Peter Drekmeier
@TuolumneRiver
Leatherback
#seaturtles
are crazy huge...what’s not to love! Definitely green w/ envy that my marine biologist colleague
@CAVeelenturf
gets to work with these incredible reptiles...all over the world
#JEALOUSY
Butte Creek is the California spring-run chinook
#salmon
stronghold. But pollution, hot
#water
temps and low flows are decimating this threatened salmon species. I 👏 this move but more actions are needed…years ago!
Butte Creek has been recommended for Wild and Scenic protection status. There is hope that this protection granted by the Bureau of Land Management will result in saving threatened
#salmon
by eliminating any building of dams near the watershed.
“The state’s salmon runs are already experiencing devastatingly low return numbers. This is evident by the closure of the fall-run salmon fishing season this year, which makes it essential to remove additional threats that can compound an already serious issue caused by the
My op-ed was published today in
@sacbee_news
.
"Low spring flows is a major cause of the
#fishing
shutdown. Raising Shasta Dam would represent another blow to the survival of
#salmon
runs..."
Tis the
#SeaTurtle
season at our hatchery beach project! Video of the first green sea turtle of the nesting season laying eggs. And earlier that same day Olive Ridley turtles hatched.
BREAKING:
@urbanbirdfdn
and partners filed a petition with the California Fish and Game Commission to protect five imperiled populations of the western burrowing owl under the California Endangered Species Act.
#birds
#burrowingowls