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Wising Up On Rehab "An ecosystem shaken to its roots," is the way editor Bill Jordan of the University of Wisconsin described the Bay-Delta watershed at the March 1999 State of the Estuary Conference. Over 600 earnest folk hunkered down in the Palace of Fine Arts auditorium for the event and watched images of the Estuary splash and seep across the slide screen-visions of long-lost ecological exuberance, comparisons of the snake of a river meander or marsh slough pre- and post- "restoration," snapshots of near-extinct thistles and minnows, and charts depicting progress, failure and uncertainty. »Read More

State of the Estuary Conference: Luna Leopold's Opening Remarks "The restoration, and thus the fate of this unique geographic feature, the Estuary, is influenced by, and ultimately dependent on, three things ... »Read More Report Card - Estuary Gets a "C" A recent accounting by the San Francisco Estuary Project of efforts to address its ten top priorities for environmental action suggests moderate ... »Read More Farming - Creek Seeps Raise Local Ire Environmentalists hope that the 435-acre, $1.1 million Tolay Creek wetlands project will help provide badly needed habitat for such rare creatures ... »Read More Reimagining Flood Control Flood control agencies have long relied on dams, levees and culverts to protect the homesteads and cities that Californians insist on building along the banks ... »Read More Opinion - Porter Cologne at Age 30 "The Porter-Cologne Act (PC) is California's basic law for water. It created the current structure for the State and Regional Boards ... »Read More Community - Faith and Fury Surround Creek Two acres of land in the Berkeley Hills are the eye of a stormy conflict involving a creek, a congregation, and a community. Neighbors worry ... »Read More Mint Green for Green Space? After years of fiscal drought, California may once again have money for habitat acquisition and restoration if pending state and federal legislation succeeds ... »Read More Bulletin Board A new Ballast Water Bill, championed by Assemblyman Ted Lempert, would prohibit the discharge of ships' ballast water into California waters without a permit ... »Read More