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Showdown at Freshwater Creek
Tensions have run high in the 15,000-acre Freshwater Creek watershed east of Eureka since Pacific Lumber was granted its request...
Precaution in Berkeley
After “fierce opposition” from Berkeley City Council members, environmental and public health advocates have postponed a proposal for a city-wide...
New Rules on Runoff
In February, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board adopted new measures for San Mateo, Alameda, and Contra...
Calpine targets Humboldt
Calpine, the energy corporation that wants to build a geothermal plant on sacred land at Medicine Lake [see Terrain Summer...
Personal Politics
San Francisco may become the first major US city to challenge corporate personhood — a 117-year-old concept that gives corporations...
Catching Drift
Edelmira Alcazar was cooking salsa on the day that people in Earlimart — a California town of about 6,000 in...
Pipe Dreams
During planting season, a Sacramento Valley rice farmer’s fields are hardly fields at all. They are still, square lakes separated...
The 21st Century’s Oil
The World Bank estimates that by 2025, two thirds of the world’s population will not have safe water. In the...
Forestry for the Future
The day starts early for forester Jim Villeponteaux. Long before sunrise, he piles chainsaws, pruning saws, propane torches, and other...
The Best of Enemies
Predator and prey species shape each other. As Robinson Jeffers put it: “What but the wolf’s tooth whittled so fine/...
Charming Adventurers
After all these years, my carpenteria is blooming! Let’s hear it for delayed gratification. Carpenteria californica is also called “bush...
Once More, with Feeling: Cash for Trash!
Two years ago a team of zealots and environmental extremists from the Ecology Center and City of Berkeley staff prowled...
