Sherman Island Wildlife Area
July 08, 2012 by Bay Nature Staff
The westernmost point in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, this island is a fragile barrier to saltwater intrusion into the parts …
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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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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.
