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Tomato Detox
Farmers under pressure to deliver unblemished, worm-free tomatoes to the big canning companies may find an alternative to conventional pesticides in an environmentally friendly program now being offered to growers in the Dixon area ... »Read More

In This Issue

Fishing for Data
Some Bay Area anglers will be casting with a purpose other than recreation and dinner this May - fishing at 13 specific sites for samples ... »Read More

News Round-Up
CREOSOTE RECONSIDERED: Cal Fish & Game officials will no longer endorse projects which involve sinking creosote covered wood pilings ... »Read More

Stressed-Out Birdwatching
Gaggles of geese, bevies of swans, braces of ducks and carloads of humans descend on the Cosumnes River Preserve ... »Read More

Inside the Agencies
MOTHER LIQUOR: The Estuary has a big dose of mother liquor to swallow and local officials are now examining the best way to spoon it out ... »Read More

Municipal Beat
ALAMEDA'S ANTI-RUNOFF CAMPAIGN: You might expect an agency like the Alameda County Urban Runoff Clean Water Program to toil along in relative obscurity ... »Read More

Grassland Fix
There's a myth that you can't control nonpoint source pollution (because it comes from so many sources), and another myth that selenium ... »Read More

San Jose Setbacks
The banks of San Jose's every creek, trickle and ditch, if they have any riparian value, will soon be subject to a set of new guidelines ... »Read More

Bubbly Winery Aids Brook
Most "adopt a stream" programs don't get underway until it's too late - when the water's already polluted, the habitat nearly destroyed ... »Read More

Port Upgrade Impacts
"A dribble here, a dribble there" is how the Port of Oakland's Jim McGrath describes port plans for disposal of 5.8 million cubic yards of sediment ... »Read More

Sonoma Solutions
Major rehab plans are steaming ahead for 830 acres of North Bay hayfields divided into three parcels. But in the push to promote dredged material reuse ... »Read More

Bay Wetlands Blueprint
Plans for several large-scale wetland restoration projects in the North Bay raised some questions no one felt comfortable answering ... »Read More

Vernal Tangle
More than one hiker has accidentally discovered a vernal pool on a seemingly dry path or field - by stepping into the muck ... »Read More


 
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