Posted by Kate Wing in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Let me tell you a storyof a fish whose glorymight have just escaped your eyewere it not for the damsand diversion plansthat stopped it swimming by For fate had dealta cruel hand to the smeltin the shape of levees and...
Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Of our Governor's movies, "True Lies" is a favorite of mine because it comments on the way death happens off screen in so many action movies. Extras get plugged and fall out of the frame, presumably dying quietly in some...
Posted by Kate Wing in Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday, the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation met for the second hearing on the oil spill we've had here in the last week. The state Legislature held its hearing last Thursday, where we heard from the ILWU...
Posted by Kate Wing
By now, everyone out here is abuzz with the news that the Cosco Busan struck one of the support stanchions of the Bay Bridge on Wednesday and dumped 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into the water. Ideally, that buzz would...
Posted by Kate Wing in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Dang, today's Washington Post story on the California condor beat me to the punch on the Monty Python reference. My fellow blogger Andrew Wetzler has already ably characterized the situation in California, where we're counting down the hours until midnight...
Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Let's face it, all fish are not the same. When we count fish for management, we lump them all together--quite literally--into pounds or tons but we know in our hearts that a baby fish and a mature fish aren't the...
Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Andrew, I can't believe you didn't blog the whale lawsuit decision on Aug. 31st! I mean, it wasn't in our favor, but that seems like even more reason to talk about it. The Navy won an appeals court decision in...
Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
There were fourteen of us at Miller Point Park by nine am on Saturday, sipping on coffee and munching scones from the local bakeries (thank you, early rising bakers of Point Reyes). Peter organized the kayak trip for the Farallones...
Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In preparation for a talk I'm giving tomorrow night, I've been rereading the great book "The Fisherman's Problem," by Arthur McEvoy. It's a fabulous book, and if you like Doris Kearns Goodwin or Kevin Starr, I recommend tracking down a...
