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Farmland for Habitat, An Environmental Trade-off? If there's any fist-shaking to be done over the loss of choice California farmland, it's usually aimed at urban creep. But while strip malls and subdivisions have clearly paved over thousands of acres of orchards, vineyards and croplands, the biggest consumer of farmland in recent years has been environmental restoration. Indeed a 1997 UC Davis study finds that between 1984 and 1994, the Central Valley lost more farmland to restoration than to urban development. »Read More

Return to the River After a failed $3 billion, 17-year, multi-party effort to recover endangered salmon in the Pacific Northwest, an independent scientific group ... »Read More Bulletin Board Water Rights Hearings: Who will get and who will give up the water necessary to meet the objectives in the state's 1995 water quality plan for the Delta ... »Read More Almonds in the Rough When R.L. Poythress settled on 1,500 acres of flat-as-a-pancake Madera County farmland on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley in 1929 ... »Read More Familiar Strangers When restoration managers in the 1970s imported cordgrass from Oregon's Humboldt Bay to Corte Madera Marsh, all cordgrass on the West Coast was believed to be ... »Read More Rising Tide of Speculation Last December's Kyoto pow-wow on global warming focused attention on long-term effects of rising atmospheric levels of CO2 as never before ... »Read More Rolling in Restoration Dough Bay Area environmentalists, disappointed by the Category III grants announced by CALFED in December and early January, were somewhat mollified ... »Read More Ungrateful Creek Volunteers and workers rolled up their sleeves and climbed into Wildcat Creek on January 8 to help the steelhead trout living in the creek's lower reaches ... »Read More