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WHILE this could be seen as a case of the dry polling the dry, when Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden asks the gardeners it serves about how it may serve them better, it is incumbent on the dry gardening community to respond.
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Alligator in Vegas, two in LA
(07-07-09) LAS VEGAS, Nevada. AP Reports:
Animal control officials say a man angling for catfish at a Sunset Park lake instead reeled in a 3 1/2-foot-long alligator.
For the full story, click on the alligators.
Over in Los Angeles, Saturday July 12 is Reptile and Amphibian Appreciation Day at the Natural History Museum. Crafts and activities for families, along with experts from the California Herpetological Association and the California Turtle and Tortoise Society. Animal guests include a duo of American alligators, a 13-foot Python, California rattlesnakes, Indian cobras and poison arrow frogs. Click here for details.
July 8: This post has been updated to add the Natural History Museum event.
The week (and a day) that was 6/28-7/5/2009
- “…people are looking for responsible luxury.” From a July 4 Los Angeles Times roundup of fashionable private swimming pools
- “Many of us think the situation is even more dire.” Jet Propulsion Laboratory climatologist William Patzert on the White House Climate Change report
Calls to California Legislature to save Delta salmon
Delta salmon. Photo: California Department of Water Resources
FOLLOWING Saturday’s editorial pointing to a tide of water bills about to surface in Sacramento, today the San Francisco Chronicle carries a guide to those bills along with calls to protect the Bay-Delta’s historic salmon fisheries.
Samples, links below along with a guide to the bills.
From “As the Delta goes, so go our salmon:”
“The estuary is dying. California has long viewed the delta as a massive reservoir it could endlessly plumb for agriculture and development. Water “wasting” to the sea is seen as a massive leak. In reality, the delta is an ecosystem – it is our Everglades, our Chesapeake Bay. An estuary’s lifeblood is its freshwater inflow mixing with saline tidal flows to create a rich, brackish water that nourishes salmon, crabs, sole, oysters and shrimp. As the estuary dies, so do California salmon.”
From “Limit …
Secret water bills to emerge in Sacramento, claims op-ed
JULY 4, 2009: “Several secret bills are set to emerge this week to cover some contentious water issues, including governance of the Bay-Delta region, water conservation, new dams and an updated proposal for a peripheral canal, which was overwhelmingly rejected by California voters in 1982,” claims an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle. Click here for text.…
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