By: Jane Wagner-Tyack The Delta Risk Management Strategy (DRMS) is a study done by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and a team of consultants in response to AB 1200 (legislation authored by John Laird, now the California Natural Resources Secretary). Phase 1 of DRMS has come in for criticism in the past for painting...Read More
This bit of “truthiness” was exposed at the Delta Protection Commission (DPC) meeting on January 26. That was also the meeting at which Resources Deputy Secretary Jerry Meral addressed the DPC. Meral, who is trying to midwife the BDCP, told the DPC that every concern of Delta counties and Delta people will be considered and...Read More
The big news this week with the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) is that everyone who wants to comment on the 2,000-and-some page Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the Draft Delta Plan has until February 2 to do it. Restore the Delta has commented in detail on some portions of the DEIR as part of...Read More
The Planning and Conservation League’s annual legislative symposium in Sacramento on January 28 brought together several hundred people for break out sessions on a variety of topics. Bruce Reznik, the new Executive Director, said in the morning keynote that the influence of environmentalism is very low in “the building” (the State Capitol); environmentalists need to...Read More
The California Fish and Game Commission voted yesterday against raising Striped Bass catch limits, part of a Striped Bass eradication plan for the Delta. Please read the accompanying media alert featuring an article by Dan Bacher of Fishsniffer. Congratulations to our fishing supporters for organizing this fine and successful effort!Read More
