River advocates are cheering news that the flow of the newly restored San Joaquin River is continuing well into summer:
On the Valley’s west side near Los Banos, something strange is happening this summer in the San Joaquin River — water. The river has continued to flow to the Pacific Ocean throughout the first summer after [...]
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This is pretty late, but just in case you hadn’t heard. The water bond on the November ballot was delayed to 2012.
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is scaling back its plans to test Owens Lake for potential solar power development.
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News is spreading that Gov. Schwarzenegger is moving to postpone the Water Bond vote until 2012, citing the budget crisis and the state’s economic downturn. Although some will be happy to see this postponement as, at least, a partial defeat for the bond, there is no reason to celebrate. Both opponents and supporters of the [...]
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Selected for his long record of achievement on behalf of bird and habitat conservation, Audubon California Director of Public Policy Dan Taylor this week takes a seat on the newly formed Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy. Taylor was appointed earlier this week by State Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez. “The Delta Conservancy will be at the [...]
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American Rivers, a conservation group dedicated to preserving our country’s rivers, put out a list yesterday of the 10 most imperiled waterways in the country. Number two on the list was the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. No surprise there — we’ve know for a long time that drought and overuse are threatening to wreck this delicate [...]
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Five hundred elementary school students from San Francisco and Marin County on the morning of May 27 will form a giant albatross design on the sand at Ocean Beach to publicize the need to protect marine environments. The group art project, viewable from the air, will take place after a beach clean up, part of [...]
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A new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California shows that, despite the recent rains, Californians are still concerned about water issues, and are open to passing the water bond on the November ballot.
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Twenty-four volunteers took part in last Saturday’s Owens Lake Spring Big Day, organized by Eastern Sierra Audubon. Audubon California had people on the ground, and they joined others from around the state. The group counted 70 species, and 39,344 birds in total. Big numbers were America Avocet, California Gull, American White Pelican, Western Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Eared [...]
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Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm teams with Mike Sweeney, the executive director of The Nature Conservancy in California to pen an op-ed in today’s San Francisco Chronicle about how if we want to save the importance ecosystems of the Delta for birds, fish and other wildlife, it is crucial that we pass the water [...]
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We reported recently that the San Joaquin River is once again flowing to the Pacific. Now the Chronicle takes us there:
“People are kayaking, sunbathing with their ghetto blasters, swimming. Six months ago it was all sand,” said Chris Acree, director of Revive the San Joaquin, a Fresno nonprofit group that’s been working to restore the [...]
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A new National Academy of Sciences report mostly supports federal efforts to protect dwindling fish populations in the Sacramento Delta, but both sides of the contentious debate over water in California are finding some support in the much-anticipated finding. Why are we writing about fish? Well, you have to realize that the entire water debate [...]
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Senator Dianne Feinstein has dropped her proposed amendment to the Senate’s jobs bill that would have undermined the complex water deal recently arrived at by California lawmakers by suspending the Endangered Species Act. Her decision was made easy when state water officials decided to release addition water supplies in response to the recent rains.
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Audubon California is one of many leading conservation organizations supporting the ongoing restoration of the San Joaquin River, the state’s second largest river. And now you can show your support, as well, by visiting the San Joaquin River Partnership’s website and adding your name to the river’s many supporters.
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Today’s Sacramento Bee looks at environmental group opposition to another plan by Sen. Dianne Feinstein to ease water transfers to central valley farmers. Feinstein, who unified conservation groups in opposition a week or so ago with her plan to suspend the Endangered Species Act to ease transfers, now is planning legislation that will help San [...]
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