by Verna Jigour | May 3, 2022 | Blog
Last Friday, April 29th, Governor Newsom urged Coastal Commission approval of the Poseidon desalination plant proposal for Huntington Beach that Coastal Commission staff had recommended against in their report issued Monday, April 25th. I had read and saved the Los...
by Verna Jigour | Feb 15, 2022 | Blog
The “bones” and “circulatory systems” of large portions of critical California catchments appear increasingly impacted by degradational processes analogous to osteoporosis and hardening of arteries in humans. Such downhill processes in humans are associated with...
by Verna Jigour | Feb 7, 2022 | Blog
What does a state do when it learns its tightly controlled management of freshwater isn’t meeting its historically touted benefits for salmonds? Add another layer of control – truck the fish up to suitable habitats above the dams. ‘Gotta say, it suggests a...
by Verna Jigour | Jan 31, 2022 | Blog
The intermittent drought we experience in California, which may be part of a regional “megadrought” with anthropogenic signals (Williams and colleagues 2020), has us imagining that this is among the more impacted regions on the planet. Who here would guess that one...
by Verna Jigour | Jan 25, 2022 | Blog
Much gratitude to Steve Gaines, PhD, 30 x 30 Advisory Committee member and Dean of UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, for pointing out, during the Jan. 12th virtual meeting , the quite conspicuous, IMO, omission from the Draft Pathways to...
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