Friday, May 17: “Sky Tours” stargazing event. 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., San Joaquin Delta College Shima 2 parking lot. Come peer through the telescopes of Stockton Astronomical Society members. Free. Saturday, May 18-Sunday, May 19: Woodbridge Wilderness Area open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The area is typically open the first and [...]
As reported in this morning’s ink edition, Dino Cortopassi has lost his five-year fight to force the state to dredge the Mokelumne River near his Canal Ranch property. Here is the ruling by Judge Linda Lofthus.
My “cost-benefit” earlier this week on taking the bus to Yosemite vs driving failed to take into consideration the $20 park entrance fee. It’s a wonder I’m even allowed to write about this stuff. So let’s try again. Adding the entrance fee onto what I figured earlier, it’d probably cost me about $43 to drive [...]
Check out this series of of time lapse images from Google Earth, showing Stockton’s evolution over the past 30 years.
YARTS, the bus system linking Merced with Yosemite, is now offering service from Sonora. The seasonal service starts on Thursday and runs through Sept. 15. I’ve always wondered how well YARTS works, logistically. Anyone tried it? Based on the YARTS website, it looks like you could catch a bus about 8 a.m. in Sonora and [...]
Saturday, May 11: Friends of the Lower Calaveras River’s monthly river walk, “Spring on the Calaveras,” which will explore the old Budiselich Dam site. That location on the river east of Highway 99 was recently improved to allow for better fish passage. Meet at 10 a.m. behind the old 99 Club at the corner of [...]
A U.C. Davis researcher said today that the proposed twin tunnels could reduce the proliferation of hyacinth and other invasive aquatic weeds. That’s because the Delta would likely grow saltier, said Shruti Khanna, a postdoctoral researcher with the Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing. “There will be seasonality in the salinity,” she told the [...]
Almost two weeks ago, CareerCast.com ranked newspaper reporter as the worst job of 2013. Below lumberjacks, meter readers and mail carriers. As it happens, that was the same day I spent a couple of hours tromping through the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge, searching for endangered rabbits. Birds sang as the sun cleared the [...]
Just in case you haven’t heard about this Delta editorial smack-down.
Perhaps it was buried too deep in Sunday’s story about environmentally vulnerable Stockton ZIP codes, but the state’s new EnviroScreen tool could mean some much-needed state assistance. New state law requires that 25 percent of the proceeds from the state’s carbon cap and trade program be used to benefit disadvantaged communities, with 10 percent of [...]