Friday, September 14, 2012

September 13, 2012 Delta Water and News Links

Delta News
The Reporter
Challengers Square Off at Forum with Solano County's Lois Wolk, Mariko Yamada
http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_21514743/challengers-square-off-at-forum-solano-countys-lois-wolk-mariko

Alex Breitler's Blog
Brown: Levee Fix Is Not 'Feasible'
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2012/09/12/brown-levee-fix-is-not-feasible/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+san-joaquin-river-delta+%28Alex+Breitler%27s+San+Joaquin+Delta%2C+Delta+College+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
(OK, just peeled myself off the ceiling.  If this article doesn't confirm the 'fix' is in, ta think?)
Delta advocates would probably steer him toward a plan recently completed by the Delta Protection Commission, which concludes the levees can be improved for a fraction of the price of the twin tunnels.
California Water News
Farm Water News
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/09/news-articles-and-links-from-september_12.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/09/news-articles-and-links-from-september_11.html

Water News

Agriculture News

Levee News

Fisheries News
Dan Bacher
Dailykos.com
Packard Foundation Funds Group Backing GMO-Fed Farmed Salmon
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/12/1130912/-Packard-Foundation-funds-group-backing-GMO-fed-farmed-salmon
(Anyone else see the common denominator thread here??  One person sits on the BoD of every organization listed here except AquaChile, and he currently resides on the Delta Vision Foundation, coincidence?  Well, let's see "two such events create a coincidence, three such events create a pattern"...think about it.)

Environmental News
Earthzine.com
NASA Earth Observatory
Another Foggy Day in San Francisco
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79119&src=eorss-iotd&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Earthzine+%28Earthzine%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Tribal News

Habitat News

Infrastructure News

Economic News
What's Up With That?
Government Gone Wild: California DFG Diverts Fishing and Hunting License Monies to Study Climate Change
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/10/government-gone-wild-california-deptartment-of-fish-and-game-diverts-fishing-and-hunting-license-monies-to-study-climate-change/

Tourism News
CaliforniaCountry.org
Growing on the River
http://www.californiacountry.org/features/article.aspx?arID=1081
(Excellent piece on Michael and Amber McDowell's Farming.)

Rural Tourism Marketing
Website Design for Customers Not Tech
http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/09/how-not-to-design-an-expensive-website-that-probably-wont-work-anyway/

California Political News

Political News
LewRockwell.com
A Republic, Not a Democracy by Ron Paul
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul821.html

Science News
USGS Survey
Survival and Migration Route Probabilities of Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the S/SJ River During Winter 2009-10
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20121200

High Speed Rail News
CapitalPress.com
Farmers Criticize High Speed Rail
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/AP-CA-High-speed-rail-091212

California Progress Report
Xpresswest Has $1.5B in Private Investors and a Strong Argument for Victorville
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/xpresswest-has-15-billion-private-investors-%E2%80%93-and-strong-argument-victorville

UN/Agenda 21/Sustainable Development

Public Comment Opportunities

Litigation News

Events Calendar
Wine Tasting Fundraiser
Friends of Clarksburg Library
Sunday, September 16th
Heringer Family Ranch
http://www.clarksburglibraryfriends.org/wine-tasting.html

Just For Fun


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