At the State of the Estuary conference held at the end of October, Ellen Hanak gave a presentation that summarized...
The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors has written a letter to Secretary John Laird highlighting several issues that were...
The Friends of the River have sent a letter to NOAA fisheries, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, US EPA, and the California Natural Resources Agency thanking them for the recent meeting, which confirmed their previous assertions: ”...
At the State of the Estuary conference held at the end of October, economist Jeff Michael and Deputy Secretary of...
At the National Water Research Institute’s Drought Response Workshop held last month, DWR Interstate Resources Manager Jeanine Jones gave a...
From Congressman John Garamendi’s office: “Congressman John Garamendi (CA-3), former Deputy Secretary of the Interior, joins other Northern California Members of Congress in pointing to a nearly $3 billion error made by the State as yet another indication that Governor...
The Friends of the San Francisco Estuary have written two letters to state officials regarding the Bay Delta Conservation Plan....
On October 29th,2013, the House Subcommittee on Water and Power held on oversight hearing, A Road Map for Increasing Our...
Written by yours truly, posted at Zocalo Public Square: “In California, we owe the existence of our communities to the willingness of previous generations to rearrange our natural assets. Billions of dollars have been spent rerouting rivers to channel the...
At the National Water Research Institute’s Drought Response Workshop, October 8, 2013, John Leahigh, Principal Engineer for State Water Project Operations...
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The 11th Biennial State of the Estuary conference held in October, 2013, brought together the leaders from the state’s resource...
From the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, this press release: “The state and federal water export projects continue to ignore regulatory requirements and Delta fisheries have again been hammered by excessive water exports. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW)...
This is the third in a series of profiles written especially for Maven’s Notebook by Emily DeMarco. The first in...
After thousands of comments, several meetings, and three drafts, the first Delta Science Plan has been completed and accepted by...
With the release of the Governor’s California Water Action Plan, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of planning processes currently underway. Just how many? It’s easy to lose count. Currently, there are three major planning efforts focused...