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Sierra Headwaters: Water Banks or Home Sites?
Kathleen Garr, a rancher who is now in her 90s, remembers walking across Indian Creek, in Plumas County not far from Taylorsville, when she was a girl. She followed a path made of logs that spanned the shallow creek, which meandered through two valleysand a steep canyon before flowing into the Feather River ... »Read More

In This Issue

Pesty Bugs or Precious Rodents?
What at first seemed a stand off between mosquito haters and mouse lovers turned into a happily ever after ... »Read More

Bulletin Board
Pesticide Lawsuit Settlement: Less runoff of dormant sprays used to control pests in Central Valley orchards is the hoped for result of a lawsuit settlement ... »Read More

Sludge Ban For Delta?
Sewage sludge isn't likely to produce an enthusiastic response from common folk, whatever its demonstrated value as a farm fertilizer ... »Read More

Ten Ways to Fix the Delta
A splash of freshwater here, a flooded island there.... A new canal, a rebuilt levee, a big reservoir, a small diversion ... »Read More

Biological Bottom Line
CALFED has set ambitious and broad goals for Bay-Delta restoration but Gary Bobker thinks they need to get more specific ... »Read More

A Tale of Three Harbors
Those in the nation's inner dredging circles have long extolled the Army Corps' "PSSDA" program in Washington's Puget Sound ... »Read More

Hatching Salmon Nature's Way
A report issued by the National Research Council last fall concluded that the widespread use of fish hatcheries has not only failed to slow the decline of anadromous fish runs ... »Read More

Not So Easy EZ
A new study of the EZ - otherwise known as the entrapment zone where ocean tides and river outflows overlap and support copious life ... »Read More

Delta Derelicts
The Delta channel islands - California's "most ignored piece of real estate" by one biologist's estimation - were the subject of a one-day workshop ... »Read More


 
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