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Vintage Turf Wars Wine isn't the only thing that's fermenting in the Napa Valley these days. A dispute has been fizzing between vintners and environmentalists over the county's erosion control regulations, and things are coming to a head as a Sierra Club lawsuit gets set to go to court in mid-April. Unless the suit is resolved at this time, the trial is slated to begin in June. Either way, the outcome, and the battle leading up to it, will have a ripple effect on other jurisdictions that are considering enacting their own erosion controls. »Read More

Rejecting Rip Rap The high cost of using hardscape to repair a washed out bank along Moraga Creek recently nudged the East Bay Regional Park District into experimenting ... »Read More More Dams on the Blasting Block California seems to be quickly moving to the head of the national dam removal parade. In February, State Senator Byron Scher introduced legislation ... »Read More Real Down Time Biologists cut a chunk out of the real-time, in-the-water, monitoring program of endangered fish distribution in the Delta early this year ... »Read More Drainage Unplugged The decades-long battle over responsibility for draining salty irrigation water from the western San Joaquin Valley entered a new phase ... »Read More The Politics of Farming: Alex Hildebrand When Alex Hildebrand began his second career as a farmer almost forty years ago, he never figured it would lead him into the murky depths ... »Read More Recycled Dreams Imagine hundreds of thousands of gallons of recycled water irrigating Bay Area parks, golf courses and cemeteries, cooling industries ... »Read More New Campaign Pushes Marsh Expansion When the Habitat Goals Report debuted last spring with its recommendations for how to restore the health of the Bay over the next century ... »Read More A Chiropractor for Channelized Creeks The Urban Creeks Council is making house calls to landowners whose ailing streams are giving them headaches. The prescription? ... »Read More Bulletin Board THE WATER BOND approved by voters this March is the largest in the state's history and will give $250 million to Bay-Delta improvement projects ... »Read More