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Cover Story
The Delta Re-Hab Jigsaw
In the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, there is a ghost forest. Where trees once stood, mounds of striated earth rise, denuded pyramids of unnatural provenance. A crater more than a mile wide marks the earth, footprint of a creature too large for the imagination.
This is the badlands ...
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In This Issue

Nature 0r Nurture
Mother Nature doesn't need dredge spoils to restore a salt marsh on the old Cullinan hay ranch, a new federal study concludes ... »Read More

News Round-Up
VOLUNTEERS MONITORING WALNUT AND SAN RAMON CREEKS this summer turned up some striking results by comparing temperature gains and losses with channel type and shading ... »Read More

Water Study Redirect
A $2 million study aimed at achieving zero Bay Area municipal discharge has a new name - Central California Regional Water Recycling ... »Read More

Caltrans Appeals Permit
A permit issued by the S.F. Regional Board this August requires Caltrans to create and carry out a Bay Area stormwater management plan ... »Read More

Tideline Realigned
The California Supreme Court handed Bay shoreline owners a major victory recently when it declined to hear the S.F. Bay Commission's appeal ... »Read More

Research Institute Reborn
"This September we closed the Aquatic Habitat Institute (AHI) and created the San Francisco Estuary Institute ... »Read More

Subsidence Surveys
One thing everyone can agree on is that the Delta's islands are sinking. Bronwen Wang, a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey ... »Read More

The Bird-Bug Balance
Back in the bad old days of DDT, mosquito control was a simple, if deadly, matter. Now it's often a balance of biological controls ... »Read More


 
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