Exhibit A: The rise of 8-legged frogs. These happen at the end of a long ecological chain that begins with farm runoff from our heavily fertilized agricultural landscapes. Exhibit B: Farm towns in California that can't drink the water because of agricultural run-off. Not surprisingly,...
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This story about the siphoning of water from the Sacramento River to the big corporate farms and cities of southern California says a lot about the future of water resources.
For this week's Forestry Friday post I want to follow up on last week's discussion of drug cartels destroying the forests of Mexico by bringing this story into the forests.
On this date in 1970, the United Farm Workers achieved its greatest victory, ending its five-year grape boycott after growers agreed to a contract, the first in the history of California farm labor. Farm workers lived pretty tough lives. The itinerant nature and physical stress...
The California Senate has rejected a fracking bill that seems like common sense: Under Pavley's bill, oil companies would be required to give 30 days notice to land owners whose.
I was very happy to see President Obama use the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create Fort Ord National Monument in California, protecting some of the last wild land in.
I think it's great that Los Angeles is creating a new wetland in south Los Angeles. Part of a 9 acre park, this 4.5 acre wetland will bring much needed green space to a gritty neighborhood sorely lacking in parks of any kind, will process...
This year is the 100th anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Fight, when I.W.W. speakers were routinely denied their First Amendment rights for speaking in public about workers' rights..
An iconic moment in environmental history is the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Dam. San Francisco, always desperate for fresh water supplies, looked to the Sierra Nevada to quench its.
Read about the new crime wave sweeping America's tubas: BELL, Calif. — When thieves broke into the high school music room here this week, they cut through the bolts on all the storage lockers and ripped two doors off their frames. But they didn’t touch...
In the hipster world, California's Coachella Valley is known for strange creatures such as Animal Collective and Deer Tick that appear once a year to gigantic crowds of bearded men,.
In a rare piece of sensible legislation coming out of California, rural homeowners who rely on state firefighters for basic fire services will have to pay a $150 annual fee..