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What Price Restoration?
Ask five experts what it costs to restore wetlands, and they'll all say it depends on the site and what you want to do with it. The site might be anything from a diked cow pasture to a trashed-out marsh, and the goal might be anything from pickleweed flats to winter duck ponds, but it's how closely the before and after resemble each other, and what it will take in terms of human intervention to transform one into the other, that creates vast differences in dollars and cents ... »Read More

In This Issue

Wetlands Restoration Case Studies
Petaluma River Marsh
Project Goal:.............................................................................Tidal Wetlands
Former Land Use:................................................................Hayfields Restored »Read More

Videos Sell Creek Clean Up
"This is what people think of our neighborhood," a child says distastefully as the camera pans across a trash-strewn creek bed ... »Read More

News Round-Up
Delta Ducklings may get New Ponds under a $40,000 grant program launched by Ducks Unlimited and the Delta Protection Commission ... »Read More

Tracking Peeps
About 70 Western Sandpipers will be taking something extra with them when they start their northward migration this spring - tiny radio transmitters ... »Read More

No Rave Reviews for Wetlands Mitigation
Making the Army Corps as mean as the IRS may be the only way to yank the practice and science of wetlands mitigation out of a bureaucratic quagmire ... »Read More

New Nature Banks
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and a room full of leaders from the state and the Bank of America announced the opening of California's first conservation bank ... »Read More

Delta Plan on Paper
"A new comprehensive land use and resource management plan developed specifically for the Delta was just completed and adopted February 23 ... »Read More

Farm Chemicals Check Out of B&B
Over half a million dollars will be available over the next two years to apply model biologically integrated farming practices that have already eliminated organophosphate ... »Read More

Rural Water Joins Chorus
In the small rural farming town of Mendota, things have gotten so dire (unemployment soared to 45% in 1992) that residents have been known to steal groceries ... »Read More

Groundwater Taps and Tabs
All new above-ground reservoirs have been blocked for two decades by environmentalists and other political interests, prompting calls by state leaders ... »Read More

Clean Water Act Dilutions
If radical changes to the Clean Water Act adopted by a key House committee this month had been enacted in 1972, there would be no Bay-Delta accord ... »Read More


 
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