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Salmoncam is running

Flows are dropping and fish are very visible, especially between 11 am and 3 pm. Click here.

Film Festival Poster4th Annual Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Thursday Sept. 16, 5:30 pm
Sierra Nevada Brewery Big Room

FBC will be hosting this great evening of inspiration with a buffet, films, music, silent auction and great Sierra Nevada beverages! Buy tickets online.

View the Film Festival pages.

Spring Run Salmon are back!

Check the big school that has moved into the FBC salmoncam pool. It is awesome! Recent surveys only counted just over 1000 salmon, half of last year and the lowest since 1997. Check the video below or the Salmoncam

The great spring flows continued into July except below Durham Mutual Dam. Stranded in water that was reaching 78 degrees, 123 salmon were rescued and 23 were radio tagged on 7/15. Most of the radio tagged fish have perished. One is still alive and sending signals from it's holding pool. All recreationist need to avoid the salmon holes. Harassment is a very serious problem for these fish.

Spring Run Salmon Symposium

The Salmonid Restoration Federation and Friends of Butte Creek sponsored the 5th Annual Spring Salmon Symposium in Chico. Photo albums are up and maps of the sites will be posted soon! More info.

Butte County General Plan

Butte Creek Canyon will get a Conservation Overlay included in General Plan. Another 5-0 decision by the Supervisors on July 27.

We won 5-0 on April 3! The supervisors agreed 100% that Butte Creek should be kept rural/agriculture and residential subdivisions have no place in Butte Creek Canyon! Thanks to the over 200 supporters that showed up at the Supervisors Chambers. You rocked the supes!

Supporters

Please take time to thank the Butte County supervisors for supporting the protection of Butte Creek.

 

News

Supervisor support Butte Creek Overlay

Butte County Supervisors voted 5-0 on July 27 to support the development of a Conservation Overlay for Butte Creek Canyon.Read article.

Spring Run Symposium Tours were enjoyed by many.

For more info and photo albums click here.

Fish Rescued Again???

For the fourth year in a row, endangered Spring Run Salmon have been left stranded on Butte Creek below Durham Mutual and Parrott/Phelan dams as water diversion take nearly 80% of the water. Read the ER story and see the review of four years of misguided management. Read the Fish Sniffer article.

FBC and other Conservation Groups Issue 60 day Notice of Intent to Sue. May 23

Read the article here.

EPA wants new restrictions on pesticides for salmon protection

Read the story.

Canyon residents fight off another threat

Read the Chico News-Review article.

Butte Creek Canyon residents get their ag designation back

Read the E-R article.

Developers Eye Butte Creek Canyon

Read the column that appeared in the Chico News & Review.

Target Inc. eliminates all farmed salmon

Target Inc. eliminates all farmed salmon from their food stores to demonstrate their commitment to the environment! Read the story.

2009 Butte Creek spring run count

The final carcass count is in for the 2009 Butte Creek spring run. Only 2,561 salmon were counted, the lowest number in 12 years. With the recently released final numbers of fall run returning this year at under 40,000, Sacramento Valley salmon are heading for extinction. We can not let this happen!

Salmon Water Now has another new video:

 Westlands Water District

See the rest of their videos on our video page.