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Wallowing in Mud Bath "Grey, slimey stuff," up to 65 million cubic yards of it, is how one scientist described the Bay mud that might need to be scooped up off the bottom to make way for a proposed new runway for the San Francisco airport. Add another 95 million cubic yards (mcy) of less slimey stuff, needed to provide firmer footing and a higher elevation for a possible 1,200 acre new runway area, and you have some mind-numbing mud math that has scientists worried about impacts on sediment dynamics in the Bay. If this solid-liquid balance gets out of whack, shorelines may retreat, newly restored wetlands may languish underwater, and steelhead may suffer and stray. »Read More

Red Flags Over Montezuma Two environmental groups visited a Solano County courtroom this November to challenge the adequacy of an environmental impact report ... »Read More Sage Strategy for Bay Wetlands The word "implementation" may be long enough to put most people to sleep, but it's the most sensational word on the title page of the latest paper ... »Read More Dam Demo Frees Fish Dams are coming down right and left on Butte and Battle Creeks, two Sacramento tributaries at the heart of the state's crusade to bring back the salmon ... »Read More B(2) Glass Half Full "Basically on the right track," is what enviros are calling the Department of the Interior's final decision this October on the accounting system used ... »Read More Flying Comeback High above the Bay, beneath its many bridges, an enigmatic, dark-eyed flier is quietly making a comeback. Peregrine falcons, which dive at speeds of up to 200 mph ... »Read More A Hard Look at Low-Value Crops With California's water debate increasingly cast in terms of people and fish vs. farms, obtaining water from the alfalfa, cotton, pasture and rice grown ... »Read More Cow Pie Protocol Dairy producers and environmental agencies traditionally have an uneasy, if not downright adversarial relationship. The regulators worry about impacts ... »Read More Giving Creeks and Cows Some Space Astronauts lunching among the stars and cows grazing along Southern Alameda Creek have something in common. Resource managers for the creek employed ... »Read More Bulletin Board STEELHEAD PROTECTIONS - The National Marine Fisheries Service will propose new rules to protect steelhead by December 15 ... »Read More