Sacramento County’s most-famous Delta town is also its fastest shrinking
Following a long exodus of young people, Walnut Grove faces an uncertain future By Blynn Beltran and Tyler Day A small town in Sacramento’s sliver…
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Extinction’s Edge: biologists continue to find zero Delta smelt in Sacramento-San Joaquin waterways
Department of Fish & Wildlife’s Fall midwater trawl survey is jarring By Dan Bacher For the fifth September in a row, the California Department of Fish…
Essay: The window dressing of environmental justice in the state’s Delta tunnel planning
By Tim Stroshane, policy analyst for Restore the Delta If the California Department of Water Resources says it, it must be official: “Most of the Delta…
Summer sunsets draw a light on the riddles of the Delta
By Scott Thomas Anderson In a dim corner of Giusti’s bar, near some photos of dangling sturgeon, there’s a newspaper article from 1970 nailed to…
State’s largest water district ignores tribes, conservationists, ratepayers on Delta tunnel
Metropolitan Water District will spend millions more planning an embattled conveyance system despite an outcry from its constituents By Scott Thomas Anderson The Metropolitan Water…
Department of Water Resources files lawsuit against every Californian to finance embattled Delta tunnel
State agency, water contractors look to issue new tunnel bonds during deepening recession By Scott Thomas Anderson “Defendants are all persons interested in the validity…