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Marin Environment Projects to Benefit from $5 million Federal Grant

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:34:01 GMT

A Bahia wetlands restoration project in Novato and Corte Madera Creek watershed work are beneficiaries of a $5 million grant announced this week. The grant, to the Association of Bay Area Governments' San Francisco Estuary Project, was awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Funding Crisis Threatens Park, Levee, Science Projects

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:28:27 GMT

The halted projects include an experiment involving 32,000 threatened Delta smelt, bred in a lab to learn how they are affected by water pumping. Now scientists wonder how they'll keep the fish alive.

There is also no money to conduct a scientific review of forthcoming federal rules to protect salmon from the Delta's pumping systems.

U.S. EPA Awards $5 Million to Improve Bay Health

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:24:32 GMT

OAKLAND- A healthier San Francisco Bay and Estuary-with restored streams and wetlands, cleaner, "greener" stormwater, better in-stream flows for fish, and improved water quality-are part of the vision behind a $5 million U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant awarded to the Association of Bay Area Governments' San Francisco Estuary Project and a dozen non-profit and local agency partners.

Wildlife Response Training and Recruitment Campaign

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:18:25 GMT

The Estuary Project is sponsoring a Wildlife Response Training and Recruitment Workshop on February 18, 2009.

See Article for Workshop Description

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:42:43 GMT

Group Wants Chemical-Filled Farmland Retired

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:39:15 GMT

The giant state and federal pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that funnel water to 25 million Californians should be shut down until certain Central Valley farmers retire hundreds of thousands of acres of chemical-laden farmland, according to a lawsuit filed today by a state water watchdog.

Study Finds SF Estuary Fish Contaminated at Birth

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:15:02 GMT

Researchers say baby striped bass in the San Francisco Estuary are contaminated with toxic chemicals, pesticides and flame retardants before birth.

Estuary Newsletter, October 2008: Carbon Sink or Bomb?

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:45:31 GMT

As climate change threatens to devastate the world's perennially challenged wetlands--and in so doing release unprecedented quantities of greenhouse gases--scientists in the Delta are working to turn a subsided island into a "carbon-capture farm" that will trap atmospheric carbon dioxide and rebuild lost soils. "Farmers just can't continue farming the way they have done," says the U.S. Geological Survey's Roger Fujii, noting that longstanding practices have caused so much land subsidence that many Delta islands are now more than 20 feet below sea level and protected only by fragile levees. Microbial oxidation of the peat soils also releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.