Leaping over small man-made jumps and swimming determinedly upstream in Alameda Creek, a small group of bright red chinook salmon are back from the Pacific Ocean and ready to spawn.
Twenty miles upstream in the Sunol Valley, at least one salmon had made it farther than the rest by Wednesday — and farther than any known salmon since the 1950s, said Jeff Miller, director of the nonprofit advocacy group Alameda Creek Alliance.
“I’d say it’s epic — this is what we’ve been working for the last three decades,” Miller said. “It’s going to be a really interesting change and enhancement for a lot of wildlife, but also for the public, seeing these fish back in the stream after so long.”…