Happy Holidays! Here’s your Friday nature news digest:
- Big Sur fire running out of steam. [Monterey County Herald]
- Bottled water ban in San Francisco would be one of nation’s strictest. [Huffington Post]
- Monterey students are among thousands of young ‘citizen scientists’ in California. [Monterey County Herald]
- National Park Service urges delay on Crissy Field decision, Lucas museum. [San Francisco Business Times]
- Berkeley’s Painted Redstart helps set local count record. [Berkeleyside]
- UCSC scientists sell Hawaiian monk seal toys to raise money for research. [Santa Cruz Sentinel]
- Lafayette team joins hundreds in annual Christmas Bird Count. [Inside Bay Area]
- Environmental groups laud city action to resume work on Clean Power SF program. [Fog City Journal]
- Sonoma County seeks state’s OK to cut Russian River water releases. [The Press Democrat]
- Water agency program trains Sonoma State University students in conservation. [The Press Democrat]
- Explore a Mount Diablo recently transformed by wildfire. [The Sacramento Bee]
- California’s $25 billion delta tunnels plan leaves tribes behind. [Indian Country Today Media Network]
- One-eyed owl returns to glen canyon park. [SF Appeal]
- Air pollution soars across Bay Area as fires, dry weather create perfect storm of smog. [Contra Costa Times]
- Fate still unclear for nine species in Delta water tunnel plan. [San Luis Obispo Tribune]
- Redwood City working with metal recycling company to prevent more polluting fires. [Contra Costa Times]
- Deer vs. traffic: 22 miles of fences on I-280 proposed. [San Jose Mercury]
- 1,000 acres added to Skaggs Island wetlands area. [The Press Democrat]
- Environmental groups urge federal court to deny Drakes Bay Oyster Company’s case. [The Press Democrat]
- Toxin halts shellfish harvest in Tomales Bay. [Point Reyes Light]
- Sonoma Clean Power projects rates that beat PG&E’s. [Press Democrat]
- Opinion: Don’t log or replant the Rim Fire burned area. [San Francisco Chronicle]
