Folsom Lake bike tours invite Sunday riders
Sunday morning eight mile rides at Folsom Lake State Recreation Area run November through February. Meet at Granite Bay entrance at 10 30 a m led by a state park ranger. Bring a bicycle lunch and binoculars for a scenic learning outing about local wildlife and migratory waterfowl. Contact Folsom Lake SRA for details.
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Folsom Lake State Recreation Area
Granite Bay
Douglas Boulevard
Folsom Lake
Folsom- Aubtin Road
Folsom
Elephant Seal Reserve Winter Closure For Tours
Ana Nuevo State Reserve on the southern San Mateo coast will close from December 1, 1977, through March 41, 1978, except for official guided tours. Tours start at 4:15 a.m. and are run seven days a week by park rangers and UC Santa Cruz students. Reservations are via phone 479-0749 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
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Ana Nuevo State Reserve
San Mateo County
Santa Cruz County
Park Rangers
University of California At Santa Cruz
Salmon Rescue Moves 14500 Spawners From Sacramento River
The U S Fish and Wildlife Service and California Department of Fish and Game relocated 14 500 adult salmon spawners from the Sacramento main river to safer sites. Drought years left the river with low flows high temperatures and copper pollution from upstream mine drainage, threatening this year’s Chinook run and prompting the salvage effort.
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Sacramento
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
California Department of Fish and Game
Shasta Dam
California dove season opens November 19 statewide
The second half of California's 46 day dove season begins Saturday November 19 and runs through December 4. Mourning doves may be hunted statewide while white winged doves are limited to Imperial Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Daily bag 10 birds with 20 in the bag after opening day. Shooting hours are before sunrise to sunset. No open season on Mexican ground doves. The first half ran from September to September 30.
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California
Department of Fish and Game
Imperial
Riverside
San Bernardino
Fishing rules proposed by California commission in 1978
The state Fish and Game Commission proposed sport fishing regulations for 1978 including a 12 inch minimum length for black bass on 13 waters, extended night fishing, Trout limits cuts on Mokelumne and Feather rivers, and new protections for sturgeon, white seabass and Dungeness crabs. Final adoption set for Dec 9 in Sacramento with rules taking effect March 1, 1978. other changes cover limits, gear restrictions, and habitat protections across multiple regions.
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State Fish and Game Commission
Lake Amador
Amador County
Wildwood Lake
Nevada
Russian River
Duncan Mills
Bridgehaven
Sonoma County
Mokelumne
Camanche Dam
San Joaquin County
North Fork
Feather River
Klamath River
Trinity River
Ishi Pishi Falls
White
San Francisco
San Pedro Bays
Delta District
Merle Collins Lake
Yuba County
Commission
Mad River
Humboldt County
Eel River
Bar Creek
Mendocino County
Sacramento River
Dunsmuir
San Pedro Point
San Mateo County
Point Lobos
San Diego
Lightweight camp trailers and campers dominate LA show
The LA show highlights compact trailers and campers weighing under 2 tons, including the Compact Jr priced around 2000 dollars with a five gallon tank and bunk bed. Smaller units like cab over campers fit in pickup beds, useful for winter storage, while Coleman and Dreamer emphasize low profiles, gas efficiency, and mass production to meet family needs amid changing energy trends.
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West Coast
Coleman Company
Coleman
Dreamer Campers
Dreamer
United States
Delayed Waterfowl Migration Near Sacramento Valley
Unseasonably mild weather has delayed waterfowl migration as the Department of Fish and Game reports 2,056,860 ducks in the Nov 2 aerial survey, up from two weeks earlier but 48 percent below last year. Geese tally 135,430, down 46 percent from last year’s date. Major duck concentrations include Tule Lake Lower Klamath Refuges, Butte Sink, San Luis Refuge, Sacramento Refuge, and the Delta. Pintails number about 1,430,365. Rice harvest in the Sacramento Valley is nearly finished. Delta corn harvest about 70 percent complete with new water spread since the latest survey.
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Department of Fish and Game
Frank Kozlik
DFG
Tule Lake
Lower
Klamath National Wildlife
Butte Sink
San Luis Refuge
Sacramento Refuge
Sacramiento-San Joaquin Delta
Sacramento Valley
Thanksgiving at Angel Island Aboard a Small Boat
An eight person Thanksgiving aboard a Columbia 26 ends with a sail back under a spinnaker. The cook used a single burner stove and plastic bags for meal prep, freezing and serving. Extra visitors included gulls mallards and a deer visitor greets the crew ashore.
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Marina
Angel Island
Grandpa
Spinnaker
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Wner & Wheelsio
Folsom Bike Tours
Ana Nuevo
Ewis
Datsun
Toyota
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