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Unnatural Predators, Uneasy Controls
For the past 15 years, biologist Leora Feeney has monitored endangered California least terns, trapped their predators, and tried to keep one of their habitats - approximately 60 acres at the Oakland Airport - free of invasive vegetation. ("I tell my husband I'm going to go weed the airport," jokes Feeney.) Although young terns have not fledged at the airport since 1989, they do use the site for courtship and resting on soft sand. Feeney believes the airport is crucial for the endangered terns as an additional site to the Alameda Naval Air Station, where the terns have successfully bred for over ten years and predators are carefully managed ... »Read More

In This Issue

CALFED - Cloudy Outlook for Drinking Water?
Water diverted from the Delta may not be able to meet forthcoming new national drinking water standards using currently accepted advanced ... »Read More

Bulletin Board
High Selenium in the Bay: New research by the U.S. Geological Survey found levels of the naturally occurring trace element selenium ... »Read More

Old Flood Money for New Methods
A bill that would help restore urban and rural waterways-with no new federal funding-will be introduced to Congress this spring ... »Read More

Cutting Red Tape to Transfer Water
Legislation that would smooth voluntary transfers of water supplies between the haves and the have nots took a baby step ... »Read More

Rock Lopping
Harding. Shag. Arch. Blossom. The names of these underwater rocks scattered across San Francisco Bay might suggest a certain nautical ... »Read More

Silver Creek Selenium Surge
Too much water coming too fast is the reason given for a controversial commingling of selenium-laced flood flows and agricultural irrigation ... »Read More

Air Water Trade-Off?
Does cleaner air mean dirtier water? A key ingredient of California's reformulated gasoline has begun showing up in surface and groundwater ... »Read More

Letters to the Editor
Dear Estuary, In your February article on the proposed listing of steelhead trout, you mentioned that biologists consider the steelhead ... »Read More

San Jose Stanches Fresh Flows
Up to 21 million gallons of treated wastewater now being discharged into the South Bay each day - wastewater that is rapidly converting ... »Read More

School Yard - Wet and Wild Education
Each spring since 1995 the freshwater marsh at Big Break in Oakley has been invaded by hordes of small creatures sporting brightly colored ... »Read More


 
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