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Protect California's Historic Salmon Runs.The Central Valley Project has decimated Historic Salmon Runs. In less than 30 years, six endemic fish species have gone extinct and Salmon reduced to a mere brood stock under Californis'a environmentally devastating water delivery system. The trade off? California almonds are exported to over 100 countries around the world. California produces 80% of the world's supply. I would like to see an expose' on California's enviromentally devastating water export scheme.

Thank you so much for your channel and your great videos and your dedication to conservation of wild places.. Thanks man

Great video, what a fine balance man and animal must take to not hunt these wolves to extinction again.

I'm down in Ventura County and we have a mountain lion who popped out of the bushes and attacked a lady's dog while it was on leash and under the control of the owner. She played tug-of-war and then the lion threatened her so she let go of the leash and it took her dog away. A couple of months later another person's dog got attacked and dragged away but they threw rocks at it and it finally dropped their dog and their dog survived. I don't think this is the last of this.

Awesome Video wish I would have seen it before my hunt! I drew the once in a lifetime tag! What a fun hunt it was!

And while everyone was screaming trump, Biden... yet more plans were put in place for water to be sent to the desert they call Los Angeles

Salmon prefer headwaters/tributaries to spawn. These are smaller streams that flow into larger rivers. This is one reason why dams prevent wild salmon from spawning by blocking the most vital spawning and reearing habitat.

Our smith river in Del Norte also has a small run of spring chinook. Most either go up the south fork or North fork of the smith but i have also seen a few in the middle fork above Gasquet. They still exist here every year also a few sockey in the smith in the summer months.

I forgot to mention i read i believe last year fish & Wildlife confiscated some ocean caught salmon some where in CA. They couldn't figure out what kind of salmon one of them was as it was Golden Bronze with blood red meat! At first they thought it a sockeye but later found it a chinook . I almost wrote to Fish & Wildlife and told them they had the name right as it indeed was a Golden Bronze chinook and that's what they have been known as here in Del Norte for last 150 years by the old time gillnetters. but few alive except maybe me that knows they exist Never seen one over 30lbs average 15 to 25lb fish i ever saw..

There's also a fall run salmon on the Smith River that is genetically different than any other. It may be on other california rivers also I do not know! The old timbers called it the Golden Bronze as it its Golden Bronze in color in the ocean and when it hits fresh water the meat is blood red as that of a sockey salmon. The fines salmon that swims I have seen a few in my 62 years but not over a dozen .

Well I disturbed them with my drone for some close-up shots but I only stay for a minute and then I split. I have an amazing photograph on my wall that I got printed onto glass with a big bull right in the middle. I've been camping out here for about 40 years now.

Your subject matter is important, of course. Thank you for that benevolent choice in your life. I like your presentation style which I am not gifted sufficiently to describe with due nuance. Just thanks. And now I've edited my comment to somehow express deep appreciation for learning you are a third-generation park ranger. All the very best to you.

We’ve had wolves in the Sierras for almost 3 decades now. It was in the mid to late 90’s. I was deer hunting in D7 up around Wishon Reservoir, and I was up in the Hoffman mt area. It was getting into dusk, and I was hiking a small spike road used for logging at one time, and all of a sudden I hear this ruckus above me coming towards me. I couldn’t see what or how many were coming. I checked my rifle, un did the safety and waited. These two huge “coyotes” came out, pretty sure they weren’t aware of me, and cleared an, easily, 8-10 wide road and just kept going. Pretty cool, kept walking, eventually went back to the truck, and ran into a Game Warden that I’d run into often. Told her what I thought I saw, and she kinda chuckled, and said those weren’t coyotes, they’re wolves….. I thought she was full of it, but she told me they had been reintroducing wolves back into the Sierras. I’ve looked for them ever since. I’ve seen a lot of actual coyotes but have yet to see them again. Wish I had caught it on film.

Been watching the series with my family such an underrated series all Central Valley California’s should watch!

Thank you so much for making this video❤️

“Van is a hunter through and through to his core, he’s also quite the naturalist and knows a ton about wildlife”. Most good hunters are. Great video

get the sea lions out the fucking rivers

What is a mystery is why scientists think salmon go up the river of their birth. I mean, who came up with this and why? Not that there probably isn't SOME truth to it, but they have been saying this shit since before DNA testing. How did they decide this? I guess they probably have tagged smolts on the way out before. With the rains this November 2024, salmon have been seen plowing up polluted urban streams in greater numbers and even up Lake Merrit in Oakland, CA where there is no longer upstream access and hasn't been for maybe close to 100 years. Since it is mostly hatchery fish these days, those fish don't really have a stream of birth, anyway. A salmon laden with eggs it turns out, will find some way upstream. Switching streams would even be good for a little outbreeding, so why wouldn't it happen?

Is the spring Salmon Run in the Los Gatos Creek recognized at all ? If not why not?

on the Yuba, Loyalton and the area of California's Sierra Valley

it's so nice to see fox. they are underrated predators.

Do the strippers have a Hugh affect on the baby salmon: someone brought strippers here

Like California wasn’t fucked already now we gotta deal with these pests wow 🤦‍♂️

"We can keep the ranchers happy, we can keep the environmental groups happy, we can keep the sportsmen's groups happy..." I appreciate anyone who is willing to compromise and understand that their wishes and needs around this issue may not align with others'. That is hopeful. But there is a fundamental blindness here. A compromise that does not recognize that genocide precipitated the lifestyles of these ranchers, sportsmen and even the environmentalists, that fails to acknowledge the spiritual ties and unceded rights of an entire group of people, will be a sorely lacking. Culling herds to keep populations intentionally low so that cattle can graze is a living extension -- right into this present moment -- of the atrocities committed in the 19th century against both the buffalo and the people who managed them for countless generations before European colonization. Yes, compromise will be key. But we must openly acknowledge and process what happened to these populations before it an be attempted. epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/6417/7245 I appreciate your film and the invitation to dialogue it invites. I thought Dr. Ranglack's description of how bison are a keystone species was especially succinct. Thank you for investigating this topic.

Dumbest idea ever to bring them back already hearing cases of them attacking livestock

If yall are ever interested in coming down and checking out the Yowlumni pack in Sequoia, let me know, i know of a valley in national forest where they seem to like to hang out. Me and my dad spotted the pack on a closed forest road like 4 weeks ago. They've started killing cattle as well.

A wolf that dark probably interbred with domestic dogs in its lineage. They are all over California... From Nevada, Plumas, Sierra County to Crescent City on the northwest coast. State Parks and forest dept almost always deny it.

thank you Joe and crew! appreciate the work that you do for us.

Awesome! Would love to get involved!

This is a wonderful channel. Keep up the epic work

Stop building suburban sprawl in mountains.

Can you tell me what kind of trail camera you use?

Awesome documentary thank you

Happy wolves back in California unliked other states they had to be reintroduced but California they came by themselves

I understand that people need to be educated on living with predators but they also need to be educated on shifting their attitudes that they have a right to kill any so called threat. They have the obligation to protect their animals with proper shelter and livestock guardians. They shouldn’t keep breeding animals that don’t protect themselves or their young. Responsible ranchers have employed these methods extremely successfully. This has been done in areas with all manner of predators. In Texas we have ranchers that blame coyotes for the deaths of calves that were only scavenged upon. I have witnessed this firsthand repeatedly. They don’t provide good husbandry and tell people coyotes are killing the calves that die from illness. For those raised just for family consumption in small numbers it isn’t hard to provide fences and shelter at night that protect and for the people raising for profit they are losing way more to predatory companies that drive up food costs and keep the prices ranchers get to low. People need comprehensive education on the manner to protect their animals as well as their DUTY to do so without killing the wildlife that has the right to exist as well. People here just shoot the bobcat or coyote over the loss of a few chickens instead of taking responsibility for providing proper non lethal protection. It is not just laziness but a culture of ignorance and selfishness that is pervasive and needs to be addressed. I don’t say this as some high and mighty moral authority. I have had to look at my own actions and beliefs many times and come to the painful truth of my failure to act and think as a good person. Shame isn’t fun or pleasant but it is better than continuing on a path of ignorance cruelty and injustice. I hope better resources are available to ranchers to help educate them on sustainable solutions and obligations and that they stand together to face the real threat of corporate greed.

You cant blame the wolves , but you can blame are government for letting them go in all the western states. They will eat and kill every thing , until nothing is left . Only vegans can get along with this animal , this is another way to beat people into submission and take are way our life style and freedoms like hunting ,trapping, and fishing , not to mention firearms.

NIcely done video, Joe. The CDFW compensation program with ranchers, CCA, Defenders of Wildlife, and Farm Bureau is funded and based on co-existence with wolves rather than paying for carcasses (which doesn't work). While developing the program, the most interesting comment I heard from a rancher was they didn't like the wolves, but they're there, and it's better to do something pro-active about it which is what co-existence is all about.

I feel like I’m watching a museum of nature and science. This is so cool you guys.

Plumas/Lassen native here. I grew up in Indian Valley, now in Lassen County on the other side of the mountains. Are you guys still around the area? I got an early photo of a Lassen Pack wolf in 2021 on a DSLR camera trap after two years of trying. I have a gallery in Susanville.

Such a cool series!

Many assume that wolves roamed widely in California. Yet there is very little historical record or evidence of the historical range of wolves in CA (documented skins or skulls, stories from miners, trappers, Natives, drawings or photos). The CA Wolf Management plan and the current state wolf coordinator will confirm this lack of documentation. So are we choosing to encourage and strictly protect a top carnivore throughout the state that may have never occupied the state in great numbers? Is there a place for wolves in CA now with over 38 million people? Is there an adequate wild prey base? Does near total protection from population management strategies which prevents killing problem wolves and lions (plus increasing black bear, bobcat & coyote populations) negatively affect the state deer and elk populations? Most states compensate ranchers for loss yet CA legislators provide little funding to do so (mere $600K now in 24/25 budget down from $3 million). And the state compensation process is very cumbersome. I'd appreciate an open discussion of the issues I mentioned.

Who is the person responsible from introducing the wolf? Why are the wolf not treated as a non native species?

Great stuff guys! Its been a long wait though... I guess you're busy with other life issues...

The ranchers get paid for wolf predation. On average coyotes kill 4x what wolves do and there is no compensation

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This is so cool! Just found this channel leaving sub for sure! Take it easy my friend!

It is sooooooooooooooooo cute 🥰 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Yay, I love your videos. They always make me and my family laugh and I love wolves. They’re so cute.❤❤❤🤗🤗🤗

awesome

Great video! I hope the best for the wolves and the ranchers. Keep up the good work.