Salmon

The latest North State and California news on our airwaves for Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

Dams and levees have wreaked havoc on native salmon habitats. A nonprofit based in Chico aims to restore naturally occurring channels that increase their chances of survival.

Valley’s Edge was defeated in the March 2024 primaries, but now the developer’s legal team is filing a claim against the city that alleges violation of state law. Also, California joins 22 other states seeking an immediate halt to what they allege is a dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and native salmon will soon be able to access areas of the Yuba River they haven't seen in over a century.

The Park Fire has grown very little over the past few days. Firefighters are making progress on increasing containment. Also, visitors are now allowed back into parts of Lassen Volcanic National Park, and more than 1.5 million salmon were released into California’s reservoirs this spring.

Applications are now open for prescribed fire training in Plumas County. A train derailed Sunday, sending coal into the Feather River and today is the last day of the annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Summit and Day of Action.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon. The proposals are part of Newsom's strategy to protect salmon.

Host Dave Schlom is joined by the Executive Director of California Trout, Curtis Knight, to talk about the conservation organization and its regional restoration projects across the state.

A nonpartisan coalition of voting rights advocates has requested California’s Secretary of State to oversee Shasta County’s special election next week. Also, a whistleblower has told Shasta Scout that Shasta County’s new public health officer isn’t the person the hiring committee recommended, and there are so few chinook salmon returning to spawn this year that some state biologists worry about extinction.

The Yurok Tribe will hold its 59th annual Klamath Salmon Festival tomorrow. This free public event is a celebration of the importance of the Klamath River and its salmon to the Yurok people.

Chico State’s new president Stephen Perez discusses his goals for the university with NSPR ahead of his Fall Convocation speech yesterday. Also, concerns of a bomb threat at Paradise High put the school on lockdown on the first day back, and the Yurok Tribe’s 59th annual Klamath Salmon Festival takes place tomorrow.