IN THIS ISSUE

Ants!
Now that the oak moths have abated in my yard, having picked clean my sad little coast live oak for the second time this year, I have a few weeks’ breathing space before the next cyclical pest makes its move. Once we get another spell of heavy rain, I can be expecting their visit, en masse. More...

Chronic Ocean Noise
While dramatic incidents involving military sonar have received extensive media attention, a much more widespread and potentially more insidious source of ocean noise has stayed below the radar: the huge cargo and tanker ships that haul ever-increasing loads of goods across the world’s oceans. More...

Muir Woods Revival
In 1908, shortly before president Theodore Roosevelt established Muir Woods as a national monument--the nation’s tenth--a U.S. Forest Service official wrote in a report: “There is no other Redwood grove in the world so remarkably accessible to so many people.” He also noted that the grove of ancient coast redwoods was in “absolutely primeval condition.”
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Champion of Fish and Those Who Catch Them
Having grown up around the boats and the docks in Fort Bragg, helping his parents, who shipped locally caught salmon to New York and Los Angeles to be made into lox, he had an eye for the fishing industry and a liking for the grumpy men and women who live from the ocean. He started at the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations at its founding in 1976 and has been its executive director ever since, navigating through times of major hardship and change with skill, good humor, and unflagging devotion to the 3,000 fishermen and women who work on small and medium-sized boats out of harbors in California, and some in Oregon and Washington as well. More...

Chipping Concrete, Finding Water
Much of the Los Angeles watershed was buried under concrete in the 1950s, when the freeways opened orange groves to development and the Los Angeles River and its major tributaries were turned into flood control channels engineered to rush water to the ocean at maximum speed. Water that used to feed the aquifers was lost in transit, but back then, few people worried: more could always be imported from the north. More...

Coming Soon:

Unpaving Los Angeles, bit by bit, to save water . . . . Accommodating a beautiful endangered snake and lots of people on the same coastal promontory . . . .The Delta as bountiful wilderness . . . . Weird demands threaten small farmers . . . . Mare Island, suspended in time . . . . plus much more about special people, places, and ingeniously built pathways out of thorny thickets.

Check out Our Previous Issue:

Saving the coast with pictures: an interview with Ken and Gabrielle Adelman . . . . Lighthawk: for the love of aviation and the environment . . . . Mapping the past and present streams of San Francisco . . . . Hiking the Hearst Coast . . . . Three years after the hard-fought Hearst deal, here’s what the public has won. Click here for the previous issue.

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