CDFW and several other agencies are re-introducing spring-run Chinook into the upper Yuba and possibly the Feather. They will have smolt traps at the inlets of the reservoirs to capture outmigrating Chinook which will be trucked down to the lower river. A similar project is occurring on the McCloud and Upper Battle Creek to re-introduce winter-run Chinook back into the watersheds. The purpose of these projects isn't so much restoring the runs but preserving the genetic integrity of the populations.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Issac Asimov
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