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Delta Fruit Farms Curb Pest Sprays
Picking that perfect pear or tarnish-free tomato at harvest time has historically required spraying pesticides - sprays that can end up in Bay- Delta soils and water and affect farmworker health. But some Delta growers are trying out new pest controls that bedevil bugs and blight while sparing the environment ... »Read More

In This Issue

Bay Harbor Seal Health
A long-awaited study of S.F. Bay harbor seals came out in print early this October. The 150-page study, funded in part by the S.F. Estuary Project ... »Read More

Bulletin Board
Out-of-Work Fisherfolk: Out-of-work fisherfolk are getting jobs restoring upstream salmon habitat under a federal emergency economic assistance program ... »Read More

A Plumbing Fix for Tainted Ag Runoff
Refuge and hunt club managers on the San Joaquin Valley's west side have already begun "flooding up" their wetlands to make them hospitable ... »Read More

Dull Point or Nonpoint?
Jim Pachl says he's "thoroughly disgusted" with the coastal nonpoint pollution control plans the State Water Board turned in to the feds ... »Read More

Creek Survey Yields Data and Lessons
Citizens conducting an environmental survey of the East Bay's San Leandro Creek this April learned a thing or two about scientific rigor ... »Read More

River Watch
Auburn Dam Rears from the Deep: Environmentalists say heavy buying of land by speculators downstream is evidence that officials have already made up their mind ... »Read More

Paper Recycling Trade-Offs
When the MacMillan-Bloedel paper recycling plant was proposed in the early 1990s, its suggested wastewater flow into the Sacramento River ... »Read More


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