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CALFED Plan: Playing God in the Delta If you're trying to recreate nature in a watershed where mighty rivers have been dammed and diverted, vast tracts of wetlands diked and filled, and wide reaches of floodplain planted and paved, where do you start? CALFED hopes its long-awaited plan for restoring the ecological health of the Delta, released in draft form over the summer, will help to answer that question ... »Read More

State of the Estuary in Short It's taken brains, rain, muscle and money, but the state of the Estuary may have improved since 1992, according to a report released on the subject this October ... »Read More Bulletin Board Tune-up for the Bay: "Fish can croak from secondhand smoke." No, that's not a headline from the latest icthyological research into the effects of nicotine ... »Read More Rhetoric and Reality: Working it Out at the Landscape Level Scientists trying to fill the gap between rhetoric and reality began critiquing the $1.5 billion CALFED ecosystem restoration plan in mid-October, mirroring efforts ... »Read More Delta Waters Sustain Boaters and Anglers Starlight and still waters attract not only lovers but anglers. A survey of anglers who frequent the channels and banks of the Delta's 700 miles of waterways »Read More Backyard Water Policy? California's water policy debates should be accessible and relevant to more of the state's diverse society concludes a new report from the Pacific Institute »Read More Derelict Boat Removal At high tide, you can barely see them. At low tide, they emerge from their muddy hideouts, ghosts of their former selves. But the derelict boats and old junks ... »Read More Stretching the Shallows "Shallow water habitat" is the latest buzzword on the restoration scene, with CALFED (see cover) planning to create or restore approximately 20 miles of sloughs ... »Read More Back to the Future Back before high dams and long levees imprisoned and straitjacketed the rush of water from the mountains to the ocean, the Estuary functioned in an entirely different way ... »Read More