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ESA Evolves With Steelhead
Just how dramatically an innovative effort to save a high-end game fish will redefine the debate over endangered species will be seen when the Endangered Species Act comes up for a sorely overdue reauthorization. In the meantime, a good measure of the debate over the upcoming listing of steelhead trout stems from the fact it is almost indistinguishable from the mundane but beautiful rainbow trout, a fish which proliferates in lakes and water impoundments ... »Read More

In This Issue

Bulletin Board
Prospect Island Restoration: What do dead-end sloughs and shoals have in common? Combined with a decent reach of shallow water, they're ... »Read More

The Shadowy Rail
The strong arm of wetland restoration has flushed a small, secretive rail from the North Bay salt marshes, and it isn't the clapper kind ... »Read More

Flood Footnotes
Houseboats crashing into bridges, Bay waters fresh as a lake, collapsing levees, spilling rivers, puny sandbags piled against superhuman forces ... »Read More

New Rules for Nationwides
New state recommendations concerning water quality review of a suite of permits known as the "nationwides" will both increase and decrease ... »Read More

One-stop Dredging Review
Decreased redundancy and increased efficiency are the overall products of a six month-old, one-stop, multi-agency dredged material management office ... »Read More

Nationwide Wetland Permits
"The changes the Army Corps is making to the nationwides (see opposite) are definitely improvements, but you can't get away from ... »Read More

Arrowhead Marsh, Born 1874?
Anthony Chabot liked to think of himself as a creator, and to be sure he was one of the prime builders of the East Bay's water system ... »Read More

Bair Island Sale
As a result of the surprise agreement by Redwood Shores Properties to sell Bair Island to Peninsula Open Space Trust for $15 million ... »Read More

Runoff Rescue
Paving driveways and patios with permeable materials, installing dry wells or cisterns to store and slowly release rainwater, and varying street ... »Read More

Dioxin Developments
Ever since birds, cats, dogs and even horses began dropping dead in Times Beach, Missouri, 25 years ago, the word "dioxin" has set off alarm bells ... »Read More


 
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