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Biologically Fit by 2100? Rather than leave the fate of the Bay's wetter wildlands and wildlife to whim, 100 scientists and resource experts have mapped out their best biological hopes for the year 2100 in a report released this June. Many are celebrating the arrival of sorely-needed scientific guidance for the surge of environmental restoration projects now underway. But others are wary of its implications in terms of loss of land and livelihood and its sky-is-the-limit approach to goal setting for our future Bayscape. »Read More

Three Firsts for Selenium Control Late this July the Central Valley Regional Board voted to adopt what may be the first waste discharge permit in the nation ... »Read More Slow Down on Quicksilver Mercury creeping up the Bay food chain from fish to herons to seals has the S.F. Regional Water Quality Control Board ready to say "enough is enough." ... »Read More CalFED - Brass Tacks at Last? The decision on CALFED's preferred alternative seems to be coming down to two very specific things: bromide and fish ... »Read More Unsure on Assurances CALFED is expected - and devoutly hoped - to nurse the battered Bay-Delta ecosystem back to health. But what if some or all of the hundreds of actions in its ... »Read More Rogene Reynolds - Activist in Spite of Herself To hear Rogene Reynolds tell it, all she wants to do is "raise my kids, play with my grandchildren and watch the world go by," but the world just won't let her ... »Read More New Refuge to the North A bottleneck in the Yolo Bypass may soon be eliminated as part of the new North Delta Wildlife Refuge proposed by five federal and state agencies ... »Read More No Golden State for Zebra Mussel The infamous zebra mussel - crustacean purveyor of wrack, ruin and general? clogging to Great Lakes plumbing and power plant cooling systems - might find California ... »Read More Befriending the Sausal Creek "Planting things is easy," says Sam Cohen of Friends of Sausal Creek, as he waters a baby redwood. "Taking care of them the first year or two is the hard part." ... »Read More Keeping Tabs on CalFED "Eyes and ears" on the multi-million dollar effort to improve the Delta's water supply, fish and wildlife are the goal of one of the most sweeping environmental monitoring ... »Read More Financing the Fix by David Yardas, Environmental Defense Fund "Among the most critical unanswered questions in the discussion of the CALFED Bay-Delta program is who, in the end, will be asked to pay for what ... »Read More Your Letters Dear Estuary, I take great exception to your December 1997 article on striped bass population decline excerpted from an article written by Bill Bennett of U.C. Davis ... »Read More