Gateway to the Delta
December 31, 2012 by Robin Meadows
I’m in another world from the moment I step into the East Bay Regional Park District’s Big Break Regional Shoreline. …
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Resources for Learning More About the Delta
April 01, 2010 by Sue Rosenthal
Are you interested in learning more about the Delta or in exploring it further? Here’s an extensive–but by no means complete–listing of resources on the Delta’s ecosystem, recreational opportunities in the Delta, organizations that are working to restore and protect it, and the political processes that are shaping its future.
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Liberty Island
April 01, 2010 by John Hart
This flooded island has become a surprising refuge for endangered Delta smelt, which have ended up living here full time, much to the surprise of biologists. But an invading exotic plant threatens that success, unless land managers can make some changes to tilt the game back in the smelt’s favor.
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Map: The Delta Region
April 01, 2010 by Louis Jaffe
This map covers the entire Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, showing protected areas, water conveyance systems, subsided areas (below sea level), and water salinity gradient.
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The Once and Future Delta
April 01, 2010 by John Hart
About the only thing people agree on about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta–the subject of countless white papers, editorials, and political debates–is that it’s in a heap of trouble. But this 1,000-square-mile patchwork of islands, sloughs, wetlands, and farmlands is also a rich and complex–if highly altered–ecosystem at the core of the San Francisco Estuary. Here we take a look behind today’s news to understand what the Delta once was, how it has been changed, and what it might become . . . with a lot of help from its friends.
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Paradise Cut
April 01, 2010 by John Hart
Superhighways stay out of the Delta, mostly. But if you have ever driven on Interstate 5 south of Stockton, you have just grazed one of the southernmost Delta islands, Stewart Tract. Filling the angle between the San Joaquin River and Paradise Cut, one of that river’s lesser branches, it is also at the intersection of two specifically South Delta concerns: urbanization and flood control.
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Sherman Island
April 01, 2010 by John Hart
The Delta’s westernmost island, which shields major water-export pumps from incoming saltwater, is a testing ground for several efforts to prepare this fragile region for the threats of sea level rise and levee degradation.
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Letter from the Publisher
January 04, 2010 by David Loeb
Telling the story of the Delta, beyond farmers vs. fish.
