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The Sacramento pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus grandis), formerly known as the Sacramento squawfish, is a large cyprinid fish of California, United States.It is native to the Los Angeles River, Sacramento-San Joaquin, Pajaro-Salinas, Russian River, Clear Lake and upper Pit River river basins.
The thicktail chub (Gila crassicauda) was a type of minnow that inhabited the lowlands and weedy backwaters of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers in the Central Valley of California. It was once abundant in lowland lakes, marshes, ponds, slow-moving stretches of river, [2] and, during years of heavy run-off, the surface waters of San ...
The range of the hardhead includes much of the drainage basin of the Sacramento and San Joaquin in California, and within the range it is widely distributed in the foothill streams. The Kern River , Kern County , is the southernmost part of the range and it reaches north to the Pit River drainage in Modoc County .
The San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area of along the San Joaquin River in the northern San Joaquin Valley, California. It is within San Joaquin County and Stanislaus County. It protects more than 7,000 acres (28 km 2) of riparian woodlands, wetlands, and grasslands and hosts a diversity of native wildlife.
The Sacramento blackfish is found in several major California watersheds, including but not limited to: Sacramento River, San Francisco, San Joaquin River, Tulare Lake, and North Coast Watersheds. [6] The Sacramento blackfish prefers waters that run on the warmer side, one of the only native species that is able to survive in such environments.
California’s San Joaquin Valley may be sinking nearly an inch per year due to the over-pumping of groundwater supplies, with resource extraction outpacing natural recharge, a new study has found.
The delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) is an endangered [1] slender-bodied smelt, about 5 to 7 cm (2.0 to 2.8 in) long, in the family Osmeridae.Endemic to the upper Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary of California, it mainly inhabits the freshwater-saltwater mixing zone of the estuary, except during its spawning season, when it migrates upstream to fresh water following winter "first flush ...
VOTER GUIDE: Here’s who, what’s on the March 5 primary ballot in Fresno, San Joaquin Valley. Tim Sheehan. February 7, 2024 at 2:23 PM. CRAIG KOHLRUSS/Fresno Bee file photo.