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“Urban water users would pay billions of dollars for a massive peripheral canal or tunnel," Conner Everts, Executive Director of the Southern California Watershed Alliance, told the committee. "Those who’ll pay deserve to know how much they’d pay and how much benefit would go to those ratepayers.” While fall run chinook salmon numbers are on the rebound this year, the Sacramento adult winter chinook population, an endangered species, plummeted to only 1,596 fish in 2010. The peripheral ca...

"Today, as a way to honor Muir’s teachings and help keep his legacy alive, I suggest a visit to one of California’s public open spaces—national park, state park or any other unspoiled wilderness—which he strived so zealously to preserve," proclaimed Governor Jerry Brown....

Craig Tucker, Klamath Coordinator for the Karuk Tribe, reacted to the announcement by stating, "Finally California is developing a policy for consulting with Tribes. This would have been a great idea before initiating things like the corrupt Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative process!"...

“Since 1941 most of our ceremonial sites have been buried beneath the still waters of Lake Shasta,” said Sisk. “We ask that the Forest Service grant us this one small dignity by allowing our girls to enter womanhood in privacy at one of our last remaining traditional ceremonial sites.” Photo of Caleen Sisk, Chief of the Winnemen Wintu Tribe, meeting with U.S. Forest Service Regional Forester Randy Moore at his Vallejo office on April 16. Photo courtesy of Winnemem Wintu Tribe....

A cautionary fantasy about a future with no native California salmon and why that happened. 8:00 Watch, 3012: The Space Salmon Incident here: YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64dqhgRM1qI&hd=1 Vimeo http://vimeo.com/39589121...

Renowned scientists Dr. Peter B. Moyle and William A. Bennett of the U.C. Davis Center for Watershed Sciences point out that decreasing the population of striped bass could possibly have a negative impact upon salmon and smelt by changing "basic ecosystem processes." Photo of volunteer holding up a live striped bass stranded during the Prospect Island Fish Kill of November 2007 prior to a historic rescue effort by anglers. Photo by Dan Bacher....

Governor Jerry Brown presided over record water exports out of the Delta and a record fish kill at the state and federal pumps in 2011. A record number of 8,989,639 Sacramento splittail were "salvaged" in the Delta pumps in order to ship record amounts of water to southern California and corporate agribusiness. The annual splittail “salvage” number is 1,201,585 fish....

The Trayvon Martin case has roots in America's racist past and the nation false premise that we are currently in a "post-racial" era....

"We’re pleased the Service recognized that longfin smelt in San Francisco Bay are a distinct and independent population, uniquely important to the species as whole. But that recognition will be meaningless if longfin are allowed to go extinct while waiting for the flow and habitat protections they need to survive," said Dr. Jon Rosenfield, conservation biologist with The Bay Institute. Photo of Longfin smelt taken on February 14, 2008 at the Tracy Fish Collection Facility. Photo by René R...

There is no doubt that John Muir, who fought successfully for the preservation of the Yosemite Valley and unsuccessfully for the preservation of the Hetch Hetchy Valley on the Tuolumne River, and Teddy Roosevelt, the founder of the country's National Parks, would be outraged about these so-called "marine protected areas" being called "Yosemites of the Sea" if they were still alive. Photo of Vernal Falls courtesy of the National Park Service....