Tag Archives: Delta

Reconciling wild things with tamed places – a future for native fish species in the Delta

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

Peter Moyle, William Bennett, John Durand, William Fleenor, Jay Lund, Jeffrey Mount, University of California – Davis Ellen Hanak, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco Brian Gray, University of California – Hastings School of Law Today, the Public Policy … Continue reading →

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Have our salmon and eat them too: Re-thinking salmon hatcheries in the Central Valley

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

Jacob Katz, Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Watershed Sciences Peter Moyle, Professor of Fish Biology, University of California – Davis In the previous blog, Jay Lund argued that wide-scale, integrated management of California’s water system will better balance water needs of … Continue reading →

Posted in Biology, Conservation, Fish, Fish Life History, Planning and Management, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Insights for California water policy from computer modeling

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Jay R. Lund, The Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” G.E.P. Box California has a very complex water system which is important to many often competing … Continue reading →

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A Tribute to Alex Hildebrand

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

One of the best minds of the Delta and its most devoted advocate has left us.  Alex Hildebrand passed away Monday at the venerable age of 98. Alex cared deeply for the land and the water of the South Delta, … Continue reading →

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Whither the Delta economy?

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

Josue Medellín-Azuara, Richard Howitt, Jay Lund – University of California, Davis Ellen Hanak – Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco Today, PPIC and UC Davis released a new report on the economy of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.  “Transitions for … Continue reading →

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Israel’s Delta – The Hula Valley

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

Jay R. Lund, The Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis History has many cases of deltas, lakes, and marshlands which have been “reclaimed” for agriculture, then as agriculture became uneconomical, have been returned to … Continue reading →

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Delta Science in a Post-Wanger World

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

Jeffrey F. Mount, Founding Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California – Davis The Chief Scientist for the Delta has retired.  No, not Cliff Dahm. He’s the Lead Scientist for the Delta Science Program (although he is … Continue reading →

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Multiple stressors – funding the Delta like a public sewer

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

Jay R. Lund, The Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis “There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.” It has become … Continue reading →

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Boldly Approach the Delta’s Future

Posted on October 19, 2011 by

Jay R. Lund, The Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis Ellen Hanak, Senior Policy Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco Policy decisions on how to manage the lands and waters … Continue reading →

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The Stockholm Syndrome in Water Planning in California

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

Jeffrey F. Mount, Founding Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California – Davis “…plans are nothing, planning is indispensable” – Dwight D. Eisenhower “If planning is everything, maybe it’s nothing” – Aaron Wildofsky. We all know the … Continue reading →

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