Under a nearly full moon at the end of May, a 70-year-old cruise ship with a wild and enigmatic history sunk in a lonely back channel in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. In the months ...

The Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta (the Delta) is the heart of California's water source and the center of the transfer system. The Delta is an 837,594 acres area where the Sacramento and San Joaquin ...

The Delta smelt is the poster child of all that is wrong in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This year, the number of Delta smelt was essentially zero; i.e., it is either extinct or very close to it.

from farms in the San Joaquin Valley to the Southern California megalopolis. Known as the California Delta, the estuary is among the state’s most important sources of water — and most ...

RANGE: Delta smelt are restricted to the upper reaches of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary, from San Pablo Bay upstream to Sacramento on the Sacramento River and Mossdale ...