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Fishing
for Data
Some
Bay Area anglers will be casting with a purpose other than recreation
and dinner this May - fishing at 13 specific sites for samples ... »Read More
News
Round-Up
CREOSOTE
RECONSIDERED: Cal Fish & Game officials will no longer endorse
projects which involve sinking creosote covered wood pilings ... »Read More
Stressed-Out
Birdwatching
Gaggles
of geese, bevies of swans, braces of ducks and carloads of humans
descend on the Cosumnes River Preserve ... »Read More
Inside
the Agencies
MOTHER
LIQUOR: The Estuary has a big dose of mother liquor to swallow and
local officials are now examining the best way to spoon it out ... »Read More
Municipal
Beat
ALAMEDA'S
ANTI-RUNOFF CAMPAIGN: You might expect an agency like the Alameda
County Urban Runoff Clean Water Program to toil along in relative
obscurity ... »Read More
Grassland
Fix
There's
a myth that you can't control nonpoint source pollution (because it
comes from so many sources), and another myth that selenium ... »Read More
San
Jose Setbacks
The
banks of San Jose's every creek, trickle and ditch, if they have any
riparian value, will soon be subject to a set of new guidelines ... »Read More
Bubbly
Winery Aids Brook
Most
"adopt a stream" programs don't get underway until it's
too late - when the water's already polluted, the habitat nearly destroyed
... »Read More
Port
Upgrade Impacts
"A
dribble here, a dribble there" is how the Port of Oakland's Jim
McGrath describes port plans for disposal of 5.8 million cubic yards
of sediment ... »Read More
Sonoma
Solutions
Major
rehab plans are steaming ahead for 830 acres of North Bay hayfields
divided into three parcels. But in the push to promote dredged material
reuse ... »Read More
Bay
Wetlands Blueprint
Plans
for several large-scale wetland restoration projects in the North
Bay raised some questions no one felt comfortable answering ... »Read More
Vernal
Tangle
More
than one hiker has accidentally discovered a vernal pool on a seemingly
dry path or field - by stepping into the muck ... »Read More
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