Living the wild life; Sacramento River Eco Tours are more than just an outdoor excursion
Melissa Daugherty, Chico News and Review [2008-07-10]
In the midst of his second year leading these trips as a side-business, Henry Lomeli finds the time during weekends or weekday evenings from March through September for the increasingly popular niche excursions. For five years, he’s also been a fishi...

Sacramento River Field Trip Guide - Red Bluff to Tehama
Koll Buer, Retired Annuitant - DWR [2007-06-15]
This guide was compiled by Koll Buer, retired Senior Engineering Geologist with DWR’s Northern District in Red Bluff, to accompany a recent float trip. The guide is a informative guide to the wildlife, wetland-riparian habitat and geomorphology betw...

Along the Sacramento, songbirds flourish again
Glen Martin, Chronicle Environmental Writer [2006-11-27]
Michael Rogner and fellow researchers with the group PRBO Conservation Science, which works to protect birds and their ecosystems, expect to examine more than 1,000 songbirds this winter along the Sacramento River corridor. Songbirds have been in dec...

Rivers' flow has room for Sierra snow
Deb Kollars -- Sacramento Bee Staff Writer [2006-04-28]
Typically, flood season runs from the first of November through about mid- April, Hinojosa said; this year, heavy storms continued right up to Easter, and the threat along the San Joaquin River has lingered. Now, however, the Sacramento River syst...

Gov. Moves to Fish California Levees
Peter Nicholas and Tim Reiterman, LA Times Staff Writers [2006-04-25]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Friday for the Sacramento Delta levees, an action that could trigger up to $100 million in speedy repairs to the crumbling system.

Key span of Sacramento River needs protection
Tom Stienstra - SF Chronicle [2006-04-25]
In the next few miles, we saw deer sipping water along the bank, a cottontail freeze at our surprising presence and then flash into the brush, and a dozen wild turkeys poking along a bluff. I told the story about my first fishing trip here, when I ca...

Dutch hold flood protection key; Experts discuss the future of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Ali Bay - Capital Press Staff Writer [2006-04-25]
The answer to how California’s levees and flood control systems might need to be revived is a continent away. In the Netherlands, which mostly rests below sea level, the Dutch have created a levee and flood protection system that has gotten the at...

Five Levee Sites Added to DWR's Critical Erosion List for Emergency Repair; Construction on Some Sites Expected to Begin in June
Sacramento dBusiness News [2006-04-25]
Following Governor Schwarzenegger's plan to restore California's failing levees; the Department of Water Resources (DWR) has added five levee sites to its critical erosion list. This brings the total number of emergency repair sites to 29. Work on so...

J levee not added to updated repair list
BARBARA ARRIGONI - Chico ER Staff Writer [2006-04-25]
Hamilton City's battered and deteriorating J levee is still not slated for emergency repair, although a levee in Colusa County is one of five added last week to the state's official list of critical erosion sites slated for repair this summer.

Schwarzenegger: Feds should be worried about California levees
JULIET WILLIAMS - Associated Press Writer [2006-04-25]
Federal officials still are not taking seriously the threat of a failure in California's aging levee system and are risking another New Orleans-style disaster by failing to provide funding for repairs, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday.

Aanestad cheers on levee work
The Appeal-Democrat [2006-04-23]
Repairs on a series of 29 levees deemed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to be critical erosion sites will begin in June, according to state Sen. Sam Aanestad.

Bush offers little help toward levee repairs
Kate Folmar and Steve Harmon- Mercury News Sacramento Bureau [2006-04-22]
The Bush administration on Friday ordered federal officials to streamline environmental permits for repairs to 29 vulnerable Sacramento-area levee sites -- but offered no guarantees when the federal government will pay for its share of the work.

State levee plea rejected
Sam Stanton and Jim Saunders - Sacramento Bee Staff Writers [2006-04-22]
The Bush administration announced Friday that it had ordered federal officials to streamline procedures that will allow 29 endangered California levees to be repaired by November, but the White House refused to declare an emergency or to offer any fe...

Bush OKs a step for repair of levees: He puts permit process on fast track but denies governor's request for new federal funds
Carla Marinucci, Greg Lucas, SF Chronicle Political Writers [2006-04-22]
President Bush arrived in the Bay Area on Friday with orders to his administration that could allow California to meet an ambitious timetable of repairing 29 eroded levees before year's end. But Bush did not agree to declare the levee system a dis...

Dear Mr. President: Welcome to our floodplain - and reconsider
Sacramento Bee Editorial [2006-04-22]
Word has it, Mr. President, that you will arrive in the Sacramento area today via helicopter to see cars powered by fuel cells. The helicopter is a perfect means of transport for this visit, sir. From it, you can't help but notice all that water out ...

Bush: Levees not a disaster
Josh Richman - Chico ER Staff Writer [2006-04-21]
President Bush visited Silicon Valley on Friday with some good news for the state's crumbling levees - though not the relief the governor sought - as well as a promise to invest in human infrastructure via education and economic initiatives.

Bill would block housing inside 200-year floodplains
Jim Sanders -- Sacramento Bee Capitol Bureau [2006-04-20]
Large swaths of Central Valley floodplain could be barred from future housing construction under a proposed state law that cleared its first legislative hurdle Wednesday. Assembly Bill 1899 would not allow new Central Valley subdivisions on levee-...

Governor plans to push Bush on levee funding
Andy Furillo -- Sacramento Bee Capitol Bureau [2006-04-19]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today that he intends to brace President Bush on Friday about the flood risk Californians face as a result of a levee system and the need for the federal government to help finance its repair.

Stewart Tract isn't a flood control device
Susan Dell'Osso -- Special To The Sacramento Bee [2006-04-18]
John Cain's logic regarding breaching levees on the Stewart Tract to relieve flood pressure is flawed. I am the project director of River Islands Development and we own the Stewart Tract. I must correct some of the comments in Cain's piece, "Breach t...

Giving Sacramento Good Reason to Have New Orleans on Its Mind
CLAUDIA DREIFUS- NY Times [2006-04-18]
Jeffrey Mount, a geologist, says the common denominator between Sacramento and New Orleans is concentrated urban development in the shadow of flooding and levees.