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Water to the sea isn’t wasted

Jeffrey Mount, UC Davis Professor of Geology In December of 2010 we had a remarkable set of storms.  Relentless rain and snowfall hit both southern and northern California.  The news reports about...

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Frolicking fat floodplain fish feeding furiously

Carson Jeffres, fish ecologist, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences     Spring is here, temperatures are warming, and juvenile salmon have filled the floodplains—a link for them between the gravel...

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The benefits of floodplain reconnection

Jeffrey Mount, Professor of Geology, UC Davis For more than a century, California has sought to separate floodplains from rivers.  An elaborate array of levees and dams usually confine, divert or...

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Can solid flood planning improve all California water planning?

Jay R. Lund, The Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis “No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.”  E.L. Kersten The best time to prepare for...

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