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Cover Story
Greening the Golf Green
From their faultless fairways to their trim putting greens, golf courses evoke human perception of the ultimate in natural perfection. Over 100 courses entertain golfers in the Bay-Delta region. Maintaining these emerald islands in the midst of the region's naturally golden landscape can mean heavy use of pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers and water. But golf course superintendents claim that a variety of new management methods may now be reducing the game's toll on the Bay-Delta environment ... »Read More

In This Issue

Water Weed
Delta boaters have been tangling with a bumper summer crop of egeria densa - an exotic aquatic weed from South America ... »Read More

Fate of the SWP
A list of 20 ways to restructure or even sell off the State Water Project was presented to the Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee ... »Read More

News Round-Up
PCB LEVELS IN THE BAY EXCEED THE EPA STANDARD according to results from a new $1 million-a-year regional monitoring program ... »Read More

Inside the Agencies
CREEK CRMP COALESCES: Citizen monitoring has spawned agency action along the Peninsula's San Francisquito Creek ... »Read More

Bird Fakeout
A pink plastic lawn ornament caught Charles Moore's eye when he set off in search of decoys to attract egrets and herons ... »Read More

Riverside Restoration
The Bay will grow by about 46 acres on August 24 when a crane breaks through a levee to allow the tides to reclaim hayfields along the Petaluma River ... »Read More

Mice, Men and Marshes
Workers at the controls of big backhoes, bulldozers and dredges raced to finish a new slough channel this June ... »Read More

Ditch-banks Go Native
What's the world's most noxious weed? According to Larry Burkam of the nonprofit Bio-Integral Resource Center (BIRC), it's called yellow nut sedge ... »Read More

Grazing Feedback
Mention "continuous grazing" and most environmentalists imagine bare land, fat cattle and polluted runoff ... »Read More

Smelt Slip Up
Biologists are calling a recent Delta smelt monitoring project everything from "a waste of money" to "the O.J. Simpson of water." ... »Read More


 
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