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Champions of a Wild Watershed Tom Gamble's seen an eagle run after a mouse "like a cat with wet paws." His dad can identify a bird by the whistle of its wings, and says he's spotted blue oak seedlings this year for the first time in four decades. His grandad's gravesite, ashes scattered in the hills, was chosen as a home by the first nesting bald eagle pair in Napa County anyone can remember. Noticing these kinds of things comes from living on the land a long time, from walking and riding the acres year in and year out, from fencing it and finding its water and trying to get a living from it, the kind of time no scientist or government resource manager ever gets to give to a piece of land ... »Read More

Bulletin Board TUGBOATS TOWING GIANT PLASTIC BAGS may soon be taking up to 20,000 acre-feet of water per year from each of two northcoast rivers ... »Read More Controlling Creekside Cows East Bay MUD has always had cows chewing the grass on its watershed lands in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties ... »Read More Once-Through Once-Over A controversial proposal to more than double the size of the Potrero power plant in San Francisco faces an important March 21 vote ... »Read More USGS Appoints Water Czar "He's definitely a westerner, with western attitudes about land use," is one insight offered about Bill Sexton, an Idaho native ... »Read More Crab Gas Results of an 18-month study that used nitrogen gas to deoxygenate ship's ballast tanks suggest that getting rid of aquatic hitchikers ... »Read More Murres Help Solve Spill Mystery An unassuming black-and-white seabird was not only the victim of a mystery oil spill that has plagued the coast this winter ... »Read More Oiled Bird Fixes Rehabilitating oiled birds isn't easy, and many don't make it through the exhausting ordeal. But a new state-of-the-art facility ... »Read More Shore Fish Needs Scrutinized Nineteen species of nearshore fish need additional protection and management, according to an assessment by Cal Fish & Game ... »Read More

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