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It is unconscionable for true environmentalists to participate in the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI) process of cultural genocide. May we Californians put a stop to the genocidal MLPAI, support Tribal Sovereignty, and emulate the sense of personal and cultural sovereignty of the tribal peoples of Northern California....

"Today the diverse parties engaged in negotiating a broad set of measures aimed at effecting the restoration of the Klamath River and revitalization of Klamath communities released the final draft of the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement, or KBRA," according to this morning's joint press release by Klamath Basin Indian Tribes, fishing organizations and conservation groups....

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday gushed about the passage of the legislative package that clears the path for a peripheral canal, new dams and the destruction of the California Delta as one of his major "accomplishments" in 2009. Photo: Schwarzenegger delivers the State of the State Address at the State Capitol in Sacramento Wednesday....

This could be another record low year for the number of fall run Chinook salmon returning to the Sacramento River and its tributaries. DFG Photo of leaping chinook by D. Killam....

From the loose network of affinity groups that brought you the 2009 Round River Rendezvous, comes the first annual Earth First! California Roadshow! We will be presenting skill-shares, music, history and theory of direct action and radical ecology in events up and down the state....

"The $11.1 billion dollar measure is a pork-filled, naked power grab that will enrich a small group of wealthy powerful interests at the expense of an already bankrupt California - and that’s just for starters," says documentary film maker Bruce Tokars. "If it passes, it will kill The Delta and be the end for the biggest and most important estuary in North and South America, San Francisco Bay."...

You take a day off from work, drive 4-5 hours to sit in front of a transparent panel of "experts" and members of boards of private companies and corporations worth more than the entire northcoast economy, and get 2 minutes to speak about how "coastal ocean area and access closures" to food gathering is going to impact you and your community. That has been the case with the BRTF in all previous 'study' regions. Another MLPAi panel is the Science Advisory Team. Of course none of these meetings ...

A police investigation determined that the agency was suffering from an acute case of citizen involvement, to which there is no cure!...

The Schwarzenegger administration has turned down a request by a coalition of North Coast fishermen, tribes and local governments for more time to draft marine protected areas (MPAs). Just as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mike Chrisman are fast-tracking the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process to kick Indian Tribes, fishermen and seaweed harvesters off traditional areas on the ocean, they are relentlessly pushing for the construction of the peripheral canal and new dams and the gutt...

Profiteering by buying cheap water from the public and selling it to the highest bidder is now making small groups of people enormously rich, to the detriment of farming, the Delta, and the state treasury....