The Kokanee are spawning!

Despite the low water year, you can see these fascinating fish schooling this week at Taylor Creek on Lake Tahoe, or probably in Sagehen Creek, though Stampede Reservoir is so low that you'll have to walk a long way downstream.

The Last Self-Reproducing Lahontan Cutthroat Trout in the Truckee River Basin

The Last Self-Reproducing Lahontan Cutthroat Trout in the Truckee River Basin from F. Felix on Vimeo.
August 20, 2009: For Sagehen Speaker Series #27, Gary Scoppetone of the USGS talks about the past, present & future LCT recovery program at Independence Lake.

More information about LCT research and outreach at Sagehen.

Interview with Andrew Sheldon

Interview with Andrew Sheldon. from F. Felix on Vimeo.

Andy Sheldon was the last Resident Biologist at Sagehen Creek Field Station. We button-holed him during his recent re-visit for a Plecoptera Society meeting.

Sheldon talks about Sagehen's wild early years, the value of elevational transects, & why field biology will survive the ascendancy of genetic analysis.

MP3 file of unedited interview available here [turn sound down!!!].

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Sagehen's healthy meadows & fish.

UC Davis Newswatch talks to Sagehen researchers Shorty Boucher & Peter Moyle about what they are learning about the connection between meadow health, fish populations, diversity, & management policy changes due to insights gained from Sagehen research.

2006.

Lahontan Cutthroat Trout research.

Sagehen researcher Peter Moyle talks to UC Davis Newswatch about why putting endangered native Lahontan Cutthroat Trout back into Sagehen Creek is a good idea & also about the value of long-term datasets like Sagehen's.

2006.

Spawning native California Catostomus Tahoensis

Here's a quick video we shot last summer of spawning native Tahoe Suckers.

What a bad name for such a cool fish! They really should call the Brook Trout "suckers" because they vacuum up the native fish eggs, whereas these guys just eat things like worms & mollusks.

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Or watch on YouTube at lower resolution: