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A Lake's Lifeline Early involvement by environmentalists may be the key to preserving one of Oakland's most valuable and little known wildlife areas - the channel that connects Lake Merritt to the Estuary. The narrow, half mile long channel flows through a city park and the Laney College campus, under a freeway and railroad tracks and past industrial flatlands before reaching the Inner Harbor ... »Read More

El Niño Warms Coast It's official: El Niño, a disruption of the ocean-atmosphere system that periodically wreaks havoc on the global climate, is back ... »Read More Bulletin Board A First For Contra Costa: The Environmental Alliance, a local volunteer organization, is spearheading Contra Costa County's first watershed management plan ... »Read More Poolside Progress When Santa Rosa property owner Ron Engel decided to sell 40 acres of undeveloped property near Santa Rosa he offered it first to Cal Fish & Game ... »Read More Spotlight on Toxic Cleanup Over the objections of dischargers who say the program unfairly penalizes them, legislation extending the Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program was approved ... »Read More Delta Eludes Duck-eating Fish Despite one unconfirmed sighting of a northern pike at the John F. Skinner fish screen, Cal Fish & Game officials say they are confident that the predator ... »Read More Jim McGrath, A Man of Many Suits Jim McGrath has seen the Bay from all sides. He first looked at it through the eyes of a regulator, reviewing environmental impact statements and working on water quality ... »Read More Letters to the Editor Dear Estuary, This spring the Wilson Administration claimed a 112,634-acre, or 24%, increase in California's wetlands since 1993, offering these figures as evidence ... »Read More Coneheaded Fish Screens All fish screens are not created equal and surprisingly few meet the flow standards set by federal agencies to protect endangered fish ... »Read More Plankton With a Tan? An unusual collaboration of students and scientists is learning more about the effects of natural seasonal variations on the amount of ultra violet light reaching the earth ... »Read More Cities Check Water Meters An inside look at compliance with the six-year-old Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Urban Water Conservation has found that although overall compliance ... »Read More