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...continued→
Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans
On Switchboard, that is. After eight great years at NRDC, I will be heading out into the wild world of consulting as of Friday. There are so many things I've been meaning to blog about, from my trip to the...continued→
Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans
If you happen to be in Europe next week, why not stop by Brussels on May 16th and participate in a conversation between folks in the EU and the US working on marine protected areas, aka MPAs. It's not that...continued→
Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans
The Secretary of Commerce has now officially declared the west coast salmon fishery a "disaster" and a "failure." These dire words have a legal meaning; their utterance opens the door for disaster relief money. Ever since fishery managers made the...continued→
Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans
It started raining in San Rafael around 5:30 pm last night, right around rush hour, and the 250 people who'd shown up to talk about marine protected areas were getting antsy. They'd been there since 9 am, wearing shirts and...continued→
Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans
Last Friday, the public got the first look at the results of five years of monitoring at California's Channel Islands and those data are fascinating. Considering the decades-long lifespans of many of our west coast rockfish, it was unclear how...continued→
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...continued→
Posted by Kate Wing
There are some cute little bungalows for sale in my neighborhood right now, and they all say "price reduced." What would it take to get you into a nice 3BR/2BA home near the BART? Maybe the promise of helping out...continued→
Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution
When the signs say "OIL SPILL-BEACH CLOSED" this is why. I was heading back from Sacramento when I saw the signs up at the Albany bulb. I'd heard oil had made it east to the Berkeley marina so I stopped...continued→
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...continued→
