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Wildcat Revival
Restoring a creek like Wildcat from top to bottom - a creek whose banks host everything from cows to car wrecks and whose nine-mile course takes in freeflowing rapids, reservoirs, concrete culverts and storm drain outfalls - may seem like a daunting task. But it's the very tangibility of a single creek in the much more daunting scope of an entire estuary that makes Wildcat's restoration such a workable model of how watershed protection efforts can reweave the relationship between humans and landscape for the benefit of the Estuary ... »Read More

In This Issue

News Round-Up
Swords to Baseball Diamonds: A leaking landfill at Hamilton Air Force Base in Novato is soon to be capped, the first environmental hurdle to be cleared ... »Read More

Inside the Agencies
BITTERN BEGS QUESTIONS: "Dilution is the solution to pollution" were long-outdated watchwords of water quality management until recently ... »Read More

River Gets Riparian Lift
Way up on the orchard-lined banks of the upper Sacramento River, an aggressive land acquisition program promises to both restore riparian habitat ... »Read More

Marsh Cleanses Runoff
Meters, models, fleas and storms were the all-star cast of a recent study designed to test a Fremont marsh's ability to clean up urban runoff ... »Read More

Food for Irrelevant Thoughts?
When Delta smelt got caught in researchers' nets back in the 1970s, they often ended up as lunch. But this once common, one-time snack ... »Read More

Estuary Bills Shop for Clean Water Spot
As Congress starts horse trading over the upcoming Clean Water Act reauthorization, politicians concerned with implementing estuary programs ... »Read More

Wetlands Skirmish
Wetlands are no longer only the zone between land and water, but now the line of skirmish between private property rights and environmental quality ... »Read More

Grass Weathers Wake
The wake of a new Alameda-San Francisco ferry has not damaged eel grass beds off the East Bay Island, at least not according to data ... »Read More

Memo Irks CCMP Authors
Pete Wilson got his first official copy of the S.F. Estuary Project's Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) ... »Read More


 
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