Tag: Water Quality Tue, March 16, 2010
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Settlement Reached on Sediment Spill
Dec 17, 2009, by Staff NewsThe City of Santa Cruz has reached an agreement with California’s Department of Fish and Game to pay $25,000 for blocking up Majors Creek.
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Elkhorn Slough The Problem Child of Monterey Bay
Oct 12, 2009, by Curtis Cartier Environment
As the midmorning sun burns off the hazy remnants of fog over Elkhorn Slough, the estuary comes to life in the same way it has for thousands of years. Herons glide low over the top of the chilly water, otters scoop up clams from the floor and each step along the reed-edged hiking path sends an unseen critter scuttling loudly into the brush. A visitor might find it hard to believe that, according to a recent report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this is the most damaged ecosystem in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
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Scientists Debate Strategy at Elkhorn
May 04, 2009, by Alastair Bland Environment
The wetland system of Elkhorn Slough has undergone dramatic change for decades, but now a group of local scientists and conservationists is revving up a restoration project aimed at reversing many of these alterations and letting one of California’s largest marshlands revert back to the ecosystem it once was. However, no one quite knows what Elkhorn Slough’s truly “natural” state ever really was, and activists are at odds over precisely what treatments the slough really needs, if any at all.
