The excitement started with a flash of silver followed by a hefty dose of disbelief.
A team of conservationists and biologists from The Wildlands Conservancy, the nonprofit that manages the 5,600-acre Jenner Headlands Preserve on the Sonoma Coast, couldn’t believe what they were seeing: the telltale color and shape of juvenile coho salmon, darting back and forth in the clear current of the East Branch Russian Gulch.
It had been decades since the endangered fish had made its way to that arm of the watershed…