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Monthly Archives: December 2007
New Report on Laguna de Santa Rosa
fyi and Happy Holidays! Veronica The Laguna Foundation, working with Philip Williams & Associates and TetraTech, Inc. have published a new report on water pollution in the Laguna watershed. The City of Santa Rosa, which is situated wholly within the … Continue reading
Vineyards’ Drip Irrigation: When Conservation isn’t Conservation
by Mark Scaramella In the 1990s at the beginning of the northcoast’s Second Big Grape Boom the local Wine Industry told us that they were conserving water by using drip irrigation instead of overhead spraying like conventional fruit growers still … Continue reading
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Turning water into wine; To water grapevines or not — the roots of the wine industry’s next great controversy
AGRICULTURE, Guest Column: San Francisco Chronicle – 6/1/07 By Alice Feiring, wine journalist and blogger For years, I took the New World’s thirst for vineyard irrigation for granted. I believed what I was told: Napa Valley was a desert and … Continue reading
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Comment Deadline for Western Oregon Plan Revisions
Friends of Siskiyou Country, We want to give you quick update on the Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR). The deadline for submitting comments has been extended, again, to January 11th 2008. The WOPR will boost logging of old-growth trees by … Continue reading
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L. A. must dump water from two reservoirs
This story was sent to you by: Howard Wilshire Scary item: L. A. must dump water from two reservoirs An unexpected, potentially dangerous chemical reaction occurred at the Silver Lake and Elysian facilities. By Duke Helfand Los Angeles Times Staff … Continue reading
Comments on Sediment Control Plan
Attached are Coast Action Group’s Comment–Work Plan To Control Sediment In Sediment-Impaired Watersheds in Support of Regional Board Resolution No. R1-2007-0095. And the NOAA letter on Garcia River improvement since adoption of sediment TMDL. Alan epatmd64-sediment-work-plan-comments.rtf nmfs-garcia-tmdl-comments.pdf
On the Water Board’s Sediment Control Plan
Daniel: You comments are spot on – and – appreciated. I am copying them to other concerned parties that might make use of them. Thank you. Anderson is correct. It will be tough to get money for staffing in this … Continue reading
Agencies Admit Fish Blunder in Failing to Stop Massive Delta Kill
Stockton Record – 12/7/07 By Hank Shaw RIO VISTA – Federal and state bureaucrats have managed to destroy one of the Delta’s richer nurseries for baby fish at a time when populations of both sport fish and threatened species are … Continue reading
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More Water for Klamath to Protect Salmon
Sacramento Bee – 11/29/07 By David Whitney WASHINGTON – A National Research Council report Wednesday supported more water being released down the Klamath River to protect salmon runs, siding with authors of a 2006 study that critics said the Bush … Continue reading
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Top scientists: Klamath salmon need more water Eureka Times Standard – 11/29/07
By John Driscoll, staff writer More water should be released down the Klamath River to help salmon while studies are honed to provide for better management, recommends an arm of the National Academy of Sciences. While the academy’s National Research … Continue reading
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