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Valley Grapes Crushing Critters? Just a few years ago, a driver on the Central Valley's highways and byways would pass field after field of rice, corn, tomatoes and other row corps, interspersed with open pastures. Today, acre after acre of vineyards line many of those roads, a shift that is creating new challenges for those attempting to protect what's left of the Valley's native fauna. »Read More

Return of the Native Last March one of three steelhead found in Alameda Creek and implanted with radio transmitters swam up Niles Canyon, over a low dam, and about a mile ... »Read More Dogging Junkyards An effort to get a Hayward auto wrecking yard cleaned up has grown into a campaign to bring dozens of Bay Area and Delta industrial polluters into compliance ... »Read More Terns on the Tarmac Least terns living on the tarmac at the former Alameda Naval Air Station may find military downsizing rough going ... »Read More Listings Keep Evolving Two years after the National Marine Fisheries Service decided to protect steelhead trout using an approach based on evolutionary biology ... »Read More Salad Greens Scarf Selenium Dr. Norman Terry's research has gotten a bit more spicy of late. The UC Berkeley professor of plant biology is a leader in the field of phytoremediation ... »Read More Penn Mine Near Clean East Bay MUD is putting the final touches on its cleanup of Penn Mine. The former copper and zinc mine, which was abandoned in 1954, had long fouled ... »Read More Spot Cleaning Nineteen places in the Bay-Delta region--including all of San Francisco Bay--are polluted enough to put them on the high priority list ... »Read More Capital Brief - Role Reversal Congressman Don Young of Alaska (R-AK), better known for calling environmentalists "despicable" than sharing their goals, joined the green movement's outcry ... »Read More Trinity Travails Its partisans called the Trinity the "forgotten river," until last summer when flows from the river - 75% of which have been diverted to the Central Valley Project (CVP) ... »Read More Drain Back-Up A controversial agreement between BurRec, the State Board and Westlands Water District is pumping new blood into the long-moribund San Luis Drain ... »Read More Cattle Queen Livestock grazing is bad for the environment concludes range scientist Joy Belsky, who earlier this year published a paper rounding up the last decade of research ... »Read More San Joaquin Truce Willow and cottonwood saplings are growing along one of the most degraded stretches of the San Joaquin River for the third year in a row, thanks to a pilot project ... »Read More South Bay Refresher Despite a massive new local water recycling system, saltwater marsh in the South Bay continues to be converted to brackish marsh ... »Read More Bulletin Board WILD AND SCENIC RIVER designation will be bestowed on 39 miles of the Yuba River's south fork if Governor Davis signs legislation ... »Read More