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Reweaving Culture into a Creek The Tending and Gathering Garden began as Shannon Brawley’s idea for a senior project three years ago at UC Davis. Since then, it has evolved not only into her graduate work in geography, but also into a unique, community-driven effort to restore a two-acre site in Yolo County's Cache Creek Nature Preserve. The site had been altered by decades of gravel mining, but is now being restored and will be maintained using traditional Native American land management techniques, such as burning, coppicing (pruning plants to the ground) selective pruning, weeding and replanting ... »Read More

Promoting Permeability Lillie Simms, a 40-year resident of San Francisco’s Ingleside District, is fed up with looking out her front door onto a sea of small parking lots ... »Read More Bulletin Board SOUND SCIENCE? On July 10, the House Resources Committee passed 22-18 a bill sponsored by Richard Pombo (D-CA) that would change ... »Read More Kids Trade Places to Learn Restoration Rabekkuh O’Neil balances precariously on a flat rock, trying to avoid getting her feet wet in the cold water of Berkeley’s Strawberry Creek ... »Read More Dioxin Back to Drawing Board A controversial discharge permit has been sent back to the drawing board by a San Francisco judge ... »Read More Plugging Away at River Restoration The long-abandoned floodplain meadows that once acted like giant sponges on the upper Feather River—absorbing heavy flows ... »Read More Jumping Frog Backlash Much of California is up for grabs as industry and environmentalists battle over territory that could be protected for species ... »Read More Bay Research Institute Gets New Guru Mike Connor is one of those irritating individuals who remembers names—irritating, that is, for the rest of us with mid-life Alzheimer’s ... »Read More

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