“One of the last wild runs of chinook salmon in California … appears perilously close to oblivion,” says the San Francisco Chronicle. Federal officials say “95 percent of winter-run chinook eggs, hatchlings and juvenile salmon died this year in the (Sacramento) River, which was too warm to support them despite conservation efforts.” It was the second time in two years that most of the juvenile salmon failed to make it to the ocean. The high mortality rate could result in smaller water allotments to farmers next year and limits on commercial and recreational fishing. The winter run chinook salmon has been listed as an endangered species since 1994.