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For Immediate Release April 15, 2008 Contact:Emily Nucholsemily@wildsalmon.org Allen HarthornFriends of Butte Creekallen@buttecreek.org Dwindling Salmon Returns on West Coast Rivers, Plight of Fishermen Drives Renewed Push for Long-term solutions – Including the Removal of Four Lower Snake River Dams WHAT: A coalition of commercial and sports fishermen and conservationists will arrive in Chico Friday to … Read more
May 11, 2007Paradise Performing Arts Center777 Nunneley RoadParadise Friends of Butte Creek is bringing the Patagonia Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival to the Butte Creek Watershed! Join us on Friday, May 11 from 4:30 to 10:30 PM at the Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise. The festival will introduce a selection of … Read more
About 200 spring-run salmon, swimming in Butte Creek just south of Chico, will apparently die this summer before they can spawn. Action to try to save the big fish has been suggested. However, Tracy McReynolds, a fisheries biologist with the state Department of Fish and Game, said her agency has decided it’s best to leave … Read more
Chico Enterprise Record – 8/1/06 By Larry Mitchell, staff writer Let them eat salmon. That’s the wish of Allen Harthorn, one of the directors of Friends of Butte Creek, a local conservation group. He was among 30 people who spent Thursday through Saturday crawling over the Butte Creek watershed and noting the success of efforts to … Read more
Friends of Butte CreekAllen HarthornMichael Smith StreamindersRoger Cole Sacramento River Preservation TrustJohn Merz Private IndividualsEric Ginney
October 21, PGE flume operations dump sediment on spawning spring run salmon. No one at PGE even noticed the spill. Regional Water Quality Control Board and National Marine Fisheries Service are investigating. Serious slaps on the hand are expected.
August 12, thousands of dead spring run salmon are littering upper Butte Creek Canyon, results of a failure to do anything for the fish. These fish are not dying naturally as PGE claims. Water temperatures delivered by PGE hit 68° in July when cooler water was available. In the low – flow holding area where temperatures topped 70°, a rapid … Read more
There are several organized groups doing watershed work in the Butte Creek Watershed. Protect our Watershed was formed in 1994 to develop a grassroots effort to reduce runoff and sediment pollution of Paradise Lake and Magalia Reservoirs. The Butte Creek Watershed Conservancy was formed in 1995 and has evolved to represent primarily lartge landowners and … Read more
Unprecedented recovery of threatened spring run chinook Years of efforts initiated by Fish and Game are reaping huge rewards on Butte Creek in the form of Spring Run Chinook Salmon. Since 1995 the runs have been consistenly successful at spawning and juveniles have been very successful passing the maze of diversions to return to the … Read more
