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Groups File Suit to End Wasteful, Fish-Killing Delta Diversions 
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) and Felix Smith, retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist, filed an historic lawsuit against the State Water Resources Control Board, California Department of Water Resources and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Sacramento Superior Court this afternoon.
The seven-count lawsuit alleges violations of the public trust, California Constitution, Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the Bay...
Posted: Mon, Dec 1, 2008 5:28pm PST
Action Alert: Show your support for the McCloud River California Trout, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), Northern California Council of Federation of Fly Fishers (NCFFF) and Trout Unlimited (TU) are currently engaged in the dam re-licensing process on the McCloud River....
Posted: Wed, Nov 26, 2008 2:09pm PST
Davis 9/11 Truth presents David Ray Griffin at UC Davis on Friday, Dec 5 
Don't miss this great upcoming 911 Truth event!
Dr. David Ray Griffin, Ph.D. will speak in room 1100 of the Social Sciences
and Humanities Building, directly across from the Memorial Union Book
Store on the UC Davis Campus, on 7 p.m. Friday, December 5th. The event is
cosponsored by UC Davis Campus Greens and Davis 9/11 Truth....
Posted: Wed, Nov 26, 2008 9:58am PST
Field & Stream Magazine Gives Schwarzenegger “Outdoor Villain of the Year” Award 
A national magazine, Field & Stream, has bestowed California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with the well-deserved top honors in this year’s “Heroes & Villains Face-Off" – as a villain - for his absymal record on fish and the environment.
Photo: Schwarzenegger gushes about "solving" global warming while California's salmon and other fish populations collapse, due to his devastating environmental policies. Photo from the Governor's Office....
Posted: Tue, Nov 25, 2008 3:35pm PST
Conservation Groups Hope for Fish Restoration Under Obama 
Will the Obama administration and Congress step up and begin the hard work to restore Central Valley salmon and California Delta fisheries - or will they side with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and corporate agribusiness and allow these populations to descend into the abyss of extinction?
Photo: the Sacramento River at Decker Island on the California Delta. The Delta is the largest and most significant estuary on the West Coast. Photo by Dan Bacher....
Posted: Fri, Nov 21, 2008 10:52am PST
Steve Evans: Post '08 Election Forecast for California Rivers 
This is an excellent, balanced analysis of what the 2008 election will mean for California rivers by Steve Evans, conservation director of Friends of the River.
"The expected focus of the Obama Administration on energy and global warming is hugely positive given the previous administration’s position of denial," said Evans. "But President-Elect Obama’s views on some key issues do raise a few red flags in regard to rivers, including his strong support for water-consumptive ethanol as an al...
Posted: Thu, Nov 20, 2008 5:04pm PST
Glitzy eco-conferences may not mean real change 
Glitzy eco-conferences like the Global Climate Summit hosted by Gov. Schwarzenegger this week in Beverly Hills – punctuated by a video talk
by President-Elect Obama – are a welcome sign attitudes about climate change are changing, but they often don't translate to real change, said Wes Rolley, a Green Party environmental expert, on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the same "Green Governor" who is grandstanding about green energy continues his war on fish and the environment.
While Central Valley ...
Posted: Thu, Nov 20, 2008 9:06am PST
California Trout Report Shows Native Fish in Crisis In the next century, 65 percent of native salmon, steelhead, and trout species in California may become extinct, according to a report released today by California Trout.
Department of Fish and Game (DFG) Director Donald Koch made the following statement regarding the report:
“We look forward to reading the 100-plus-page report ‘SOS: California’s Native Fish Crisis,’ released by California Trout today. We thank California Trout for their dedication to California’s native fish species. ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2008 6:21pm PST
Is Schwarzenegger Trading Klamath Dam Removal for the Destruction of the Delta? 
We cannot allow Governor Schwarzenegger to trade the removal of four of PacifiCorp's Klamath River dams for a water bond that funds two new dams and a peripheral canal....
Posted: Sat, Nov 15, 2008 12:44pm PST
Klamath Riverkeeper Press Release In today's news release, Malena Marvin of the Klamath Riverkeeper said her organization is "cautiously optimistic" about a tentative, non-binding Agreement in Principle to remove four of PacifiCorp’s Klamath dams by 2020....
Posted: Thu, Nov 13, 2008 10:25am PST
Joint Klamath Press Release: One Step Closer to Klamath Dam Removal This is the press release from the Klamath Basin Indian Tribes, farmers, fishing groups and environmental organizations regarding today's agreement in principal to remove Klamath Dams....
Posted: Thu, Nov 13, 2008 10:23am PST
Feds, California, Oregon and PacifiCorp Announce Klamath Pact Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and representatives from the State of California, the State of Oregon and PacifiCorp today signed a non-binding agreement that provides a plan for the removal of four dams on the Klamath River....
Posted: Thu, Nov 13, 2008 9:12am PST
DFG Discovers Record Size Chinook Salmon on Survey of Lower Battle Creek 
In a year when the Central Valley fall Chinook salmon population has reached a record low level, one of the largest salmon ever recorded in California was found dead of natural causes in lower Battle Creek near Red Bluff last month by a Department of Fish and Game (DFG) survey crew....
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2008 5:09pm PST
Human rights charges persist against Cisco Systems Human rights charges persist against Cisco Systems; a socially responsible investment firm has set a Thursday news conference at 9:30 a.m. at the Cisco shareholders meeting in Santa Clara to form a board-level ‘human rights committee,' according to Jack Ucciferri....
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2008 3:22pm PST
Regional Green Summit features Martha Guzman-Aceves as keynote speaker 
The Yolo and Sacramento Regional Green Summit is set for Nov. 15, 9 am - 5 pm at the Woodland Community and Senior Center, 2001 East Street, Woodland, CA....
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2008 2:27pm PST
Could Army Corps Wetlands Project Imperil Bay/Delta Fisheries? Urgent Action Alert!
Keith Fraser, owner of Loch Lomond Bait and Tackle in San Rafael, and other anglers and conservationists are very very worried that an "aquatic transfer facility" for dredge spoils proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers could be a disaster for the fisheries of San Pablo Bay. Here's an excellent article about this issue by Nels Johnson of the Marin Independent Journal, followed by a post about tonight's hearing on the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance website...
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2008 10:59am PST
Local Religious Fellowship Takes Stand Against Torture The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Santa Cruz County has passed a resolution against torture as part of the November 12 National Day of Witness for a Presidential Order to Ban Torture. The local fellowship is joining a national interfaith effort to end torture....
Posted: Mon, Nov 10, 2008 4:16pm PST
Veterans ask President-elect to call for cease-fire in Iraq, Afghanistan Sacramento Area veterans will make a Veterans Day request Tuesday by
asking the country's new Commander-in-Chief and President-Elect Barack
Obama – and newly elected members of Congress – for an immediate cease-fire
and end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan....
Posted: Mon, Nov 10, 2008 3:47pm PST
Professor Challenges PPIC Report Backing Peripheral Canal Dr. Jeffrey A. Michael, UOP professor, recently published a superb study challenging the controversial PPIC report calling for the construction of a peripheral canal to "solve" the problems of the California Delta....
Posted: Sat, Nov 8, 2008 3:55pm PST
Tribes and Fishermen Speak Out Against Clean Water Permit for Klamath Dams 
People from the Klamath Basin and throughout California are urging the State Water Resources Control Board to not grant Warren Buffett-owned PacifiCorp a clean water permit because of the degradation of water quality resulting from the operation of company's dams on the river.
Photo: Dania Colegrove, Klamath Riverkeeper board member, presents the water board staff with a bottle filled with toxic algae and a health advisory posted at Iron Gate and Copco reservoirs....
Posted: Thu, Nov 6, 2008 5:40pm PST
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