The feds’ good news: ‘Peace in our time’
By Peter Jamison
For California’s commercial salmon fishery, which repeatedly finds itself pummeled by bad breaks, the past week has brought an unusual flurry of decent news. Last Friday, federal and state officials announced an “agreement in principle” with the utility PacificCorp to remove four hydropower dams from the Klamath River, which snakes across the Oregon-California border. On Tuesday, officials from NOAA Fisheries Service issued
It’s Time to Panic. But Then What?
By Peter Jamison
I recently observed that San Francisco salmon fishermen, despite some relatively good news in an industry that of late has lumbered from one calamity to the next, are still pretty glum these days. That’s because a number of highly publicized federal initiatives to protect the rivers where salmon spawn — the most prominent is an “agreement in principle” among state and federal officials and the electric utility PacifiCorp to remove f
Buzz-Kill: Despite the press' fixation with 'Colony Collapse Disorder,' many scientists and beekeepers aren't convinced it's realPhilip Gerrie lives in Noe Valley with, as he puts it, "a spouse, two cats, and 100,000 bees." The past president of the San Francisco Beekeepers' Association is a soft-spoken man who calmly notes that he probably picks up 50 or more bee stings a year -- but it hardly registers with him anymore. What he says next would have registered loudly only a year ago -- but is n
i,max via FlickrGrist has a nicely conspiratorial analysis (*cue X-Files music*) of the current investigations into the origin of the swine flu epidemic. Among the highlights:
The World Health Organization helped author a paper for Science that pinpointed the likely source of the swine flu as La Gloria, a picturesque pig-farming village in the Veracruz Mountains. But the World Health Organization isn't doing any research in La Gloria itself. Instead, the town is filling up with scientists funde
T. PalmerNot lobster, but not half bad either.Cruising the El and hankering for something cheap 'n fried, SFoodie made a guilty pleasure pit stop at Long John Silver's (1111 El Camino Real at Del Paso, South San Francisco) for some fish and chips and hush puppies. Inside the spot (which doubles as a KFC), we were intrigued by a menu item called Lobster Bites, and added them to our fish and chips meal ($6.99 for all).Our Spidey sense told us to be skeptical about whether this would be real lob
The opposing attorneys' stories seem to go together like oil and water...Lawyers representing aggrieved San Francisco fishermen and the oil-spewing Dubai Star tanker spoke this week. They can agree on that. But not on much else, it would seem. After reviewing the $10 million class-action suit filed in San Francisco court on Friday, the lawyer for the Dubai Star ship and the corporations that own and operate it gave the legalistic version of "meh." "The owners have reviewed the lawsuit and
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