The 2021-22 Budget: California Department of Fish and Wildlife [Publication Details]

Jan 27, 2021 - The 2021-22 Budget: California Department of Fish and Wildlife [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4325

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions [Publication Details]

Feb 17, 2026 - In this post, we assess the Governor’s proposal to eliminate certain vacant state environmental positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5124

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions

Feb 17, 2026 - Figure 1 2025 ‑26 Budget Agreement Allowed Legislature to Review Position Eliminations in Nine Departments Fish and Wildlife State Water Resources Control Board Toxic Substances Control Industrial Relations Office of the Inspector General JLBC Did Not Concur With the Elimination of About Two-Thirds of Residual Positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - The Delta Also Provides Vital Habitat to Hundreds of Fish and Wildlife Species. The Delta supports hundreds of fish and wildlife species, including migrating fish through the estuary and birds along the Pacific Flyway.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 18, 2021 - The 2021 ‑22 provides $45  million —$42  million from the General Fund and $3  million from Proposition  12 (2000) —to purchase equipment and conduct activities across a number of CDFW ’s services. This includes funding to upgrade water conveyance systems and maintenance at state-owned wetlands ($9.8  million) and equipment at fish hatcheries ($7
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4463

What Can We Learn From How the State Responded to the Last Major Drought?

May 13, 2021 - For example, the Legislature could consider providing resources to CDFW for additional staff and equipment to closely monitor streams where temperatures and flows became dangerous for sensitive fish during the last drought.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4429

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 10, 2022 - The budget also includes $33  million in 2022-23, consistent with the 2021-22 budget ’s Climate Resilience Package, to continue activities to protect fish and wildlife from changing conditions. Fine-Scale Vegetation Mapping and California Natural Diversity Database.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4633

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight [Publication Details]

Mar 18, 2026 - This report discusses the State Water Resources Control Board’s (SWRCB’s) proposed—and long-overdue—update of the water quality control plan for the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which includes an alternative compliance pathway for certain water users called voluntary agreements (VAs, also known as Healthy Rivers and Landscapes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5163

The 2025-26 Budget: May Revision Trailer Bill Proposals on the Delta Conveyance Project and Water Quality Control Plans

May 27, 2025 - However, environmentalists, commercial fishing interests, native tri bes, and community groups are concerned that the resulting instream flows under the VA pathway would be inadequate for protecting native fish and maintaining healthy conditions in the Delta.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - The state has a statutory responsibility to regulate waters that were formerly under federal jurisdiction (and has an interest in doing so given the implications for drinking and agricultural water quality and fish and wildlife habitat).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144