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Category Archives: Vineyards
Farmers work to protect grapes, river levels
Steve Adler, April 24, 2013 Winegrape growers within the Russian River watershed came through the first night of freezing temperatures with flying colors last week, as their sprinkler diversions for frost protection of vulnerable spring vine growth resulted in very … Continue reading
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Census will Guide and Improve Water Sustainability Efforts
Contact: Jessica Kershaw (DOI), Jon Campbell (USGS), 04/03/2013 WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today released a report to Congress on the progress of the National Water Census, which is being developed at the U.S. Geological Survey … Continue reading
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Conventional Alcohol Farms are Hazardous to Your Health
By David Franklin The conventional wine industry has poisoned our rivers, wiped out wild species, reshaped mountains, caused wells to run dry, peppered our ag lands with chemicals that are poisoning us and our children and are now getting ready … Continue reading
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Regarding PD Story on Frost Regs Ruling
Brett – thanks for the lead. I just saw the Ukiah DJ story (reprinted below). You should also contact Barbara Evoy at the SWRCB for her comments on this ruling. Who is doing the story for the PD? General comments, … Continue reading
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Mendocino County Judge Tosses Out State’s Frost-protection Rules
GLENDA ANDERSON & CATHY BUSSEWITZ THE PRESS DEMOCRAT September 26, 2012 A Mendocino County judge on Wednesday overturned controversial state water rules designed to regulate how grape growers in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties divert water from the Russian River. Judge … Continue reading
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Mendocino County Judge Invalidates State’s Frost Protection Regulations
Ukiah Daily Journal Staff September 9, 2012 Ukiah Daily Journal Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Ann Moorman ruled in favor of a group of local landowners who sued the California State Water Resources Control Board over new regulations affecting Russian … Continue reading
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Study Showing Salmonid Risk in Mediterranean Climate
Thank heavens for thesis’s. No one else would study this (ask this question), or come up with such a conclusion. Now, we just have to hang on to our educational system. Thanks Brock. Hello, Ted Grantham, who recently finished his … Continue reading
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Why vineyards are extirpating our salmonids
Why vineyards are extirpating our salmonids. Jim Subject: Steelhead Trout Lose Out–Comments of Jim Doerksen in Opposition to the Response by the State Water Board, etc. The first item is a Press Release by U.C. Berkeley titled “Steelhead Trout Lose Out When Water … Continue reading
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Lawsuit Filed to Stop Clearcutting of Redwoods for Sonoma County Vineyard
SANTA ROSA, California — Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging a controversial proposal by a Spanish corporation to clearcut 154 acres of redwood forest to plant wine grapes in northwestern Sonoma County. The Sierra Club’s Redwood Chapter, the Center … Continue reading
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Artesa’s Hired Gun
Will Parrish on May 2, 2012 Artesa of Sonoma, a subsidiary of Spanish wine giant Codorniu, has a public image crisis on its hands, and on a scale few wine companies have ever encountered. Last year, the company received a … Continue reading
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