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Jason Baumsteiger is a Center for Watershed Sciences post-doctoral research fellow with Drs. Peter Moyle and Mike Miller. Peter Moyle is a U.C. Davis professor emeritus of fish biology and an associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences.
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Delta smelt and winter-run Chinook salmon are facing extinction in the wild, which raises questions about a lack of policy for declaring species extinct and the role of captive populations, write two U.C. Davis scientists.
For species like salmon and trout, the benefits to humans are straightforward. But what of the many less charismatic species that naturally occur in California? Do they matter? New research suggests they do. Here’s why.
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