Conservation is seen as key to dealing with state's water woesRebates and low-flow fixtures are helping. Now comes the tough part: individual sacrifice. Compared to building new reservoirs, recycling or seawater desalination, conservation is one of the cheapest, quickest and least environmentally damaging ways for the state to get more water. (Los Angeles Times - 11/24/2009) 
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Fresno Bee - 11/24/2009
Redding Record Searchlight - 11/18/2009
San Jose Mercury News - 11/12/2009
Sacramento Bee - 08/10/2009
Sacramento Bee - 08/10/2009

Red Bluff urges fish hotelProjects to improve areas along the river were presented Thursday during the second in a series of workshops about the loss of Lake Red Bluff. The Red Bluff City Manager presented a project for River Park and the area around Red Bank Creek that would require removing the sand bar in front of River Park and dredging a channel to create a shallow spot for migrating fish to rest as they travel upstream something of a fish hotel. (Contra Costa Times - 11/21/2009) 
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The Record - 11/18/2009
San Jose Mercury News - 08/06/2009
Sacramento Bee - 07/29/2009
Redding Record-Searchlight - 07/28/2009
Redding Record-Searchlight - 07/23/2009

Fate of water bond in hands of votersImprovements in water delivery are needed in California's Central Valley. Voters have say in 2010. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday endorsed the $11 billion water bond included as part of the five-bill package approved by state legislators last week. The bill, if passed by voters one year from now, will fund major dam and canal projects to help the state combat serious drought conditions that have plagued the region since 2005. (San Francisco Examiner - 11/10/2009) 
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San Jose Mercury News - 11/30/2009
Chico Enterprise-Record - 11/19/2009
Marysville Appeal-Democrat - 11/18/2009
L.A. Times - 11/18/2009
Fresno Bee - 11/12/2009

Legal action could stall Natomas levee repairsCrews remove trees from an area that will expand the levee as part of the Natomas Levee improvement project. Levee repairs in Sacramento's Natomas Basin face new legal and financial threats that could delay construction of the massive project. The Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency is just weeks from awarding a $90 million construction contract for a key phase of the project. But that work depends on state matching funds, which have been bottled up by the state budget crisis. (Sacramento Bee - 03/09/2009) 
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Marysville Appeal-Democrat - 11/19/2009
Woodland Daily Democrat - 11/19/2009
Sacramento Business Journal - 07/30/2009
Long Beach Press-Telegram - 07/27/2009
Marysville Appeal-Democrat - 07/14/2009

Boaters, beware: Hunt is on for mussel invaders Authorities are on the lookout for quagga and zebra mussels, invasive species known to hitchhike from one body of water to another by attaching themselves to boat trailers, hulls, engines and steering components. (Sacramento Bee - 07/03/2008) 
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Sacramento Bee - 03/26/2009
Dept. of Fish and Game - 10/16/2008
Las Vegas Sun - 06/20/2008
Calif. Department of Water Resources - 05/23/2008
Lake County Record Bee - 03/20/2008

Redding Record Searchlight - 06/11/2009
Sacramento Bee - 03/24/2009
California Aggie - 10/15/2008
Yubanet.com - 05/23/2008
Sacramento Channel 7 - 05/14/2008

Sacramento Bee - 03/27/2008

Mining companies agree to pay $3 million for Lava Cap Mine cleanup The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California approved a $3 million settlement today between the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, and settling defendants Newmont Capital Limited and Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Limited to resolve liability at the Lava Cap Mine Superfund Site in Nevada County, Calif. (YubaNet.com - 02/25/2009) 
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YubaNet.com - 11/19/2009
Marysville Appeal-Democrat - 11/19/2009
Redding Record Searchlight - 11/19/2009
Marysville Appeal-Democrat - 08/06/2009
Grass Valley Union - 08/05/2009

One Spawning Ground Left: Rare Green Sturgeon to Get Needed Recovery PlanSaving the North American Green Sturgeon The National Marine Fisheries Service announced that it will develop a recovery plan for threatened green sturgeon. The notice will appear in Thursday’s Federal Register. A recovery plan is a legally mandated roadmap to how an endangered animal or plant species can be brought back from the brink and eventually be secure enough from the risk of extinction to be removed from the endangered species list. (Center for Biological Diversity - 11/11/2009) 
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Red Bluff Daily News - 11/26/2009
Chico Enterprise-Record - 11/18/2009
Chico Enterprise-Record - 11/18/2009
Chico Enterprise-Record - 11/14/2009
YubaNet - 08/03/2009

One Spawning Ground Left: Rare Green Sturgeon to Get Needed Recovery PlanSaving the North American Green Sturgeon The National Marine Fisheries Service announced that it will develop a recovery plan for threatened green sturgeon. The notice will appear in Thursday’s Federal Register. A recovery plan is a legally mandated roadmap to how an endangered animal or plant species can be brought back from the brink and eventually be secure enough from the risk of extinction to be removed from the endangered species list. (Center for Biological Diversity - 11/11/2009) 
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