a would-be mouthpiece for big corporate enviros, neopagans and totalitarian leftists.
Perhaps you were musing to yourself, What could coax OtPR out of retirement? What could it be? A pressing new dilemma? An insightful new book to discuss? A cogent new analysis? No, my friends. I have not returned for any Continue reading
I am sincerely enjoying the work coming from women academics younger than me, demonstrating that mainstays of California water management are pretty well bullshit. I would love to stand behind the authors at conferences and be their anger translator. They re Continue reading
There s a new scholarship in her name: The Marjorie Caisley Conservation Engineering Scholarship for Women Let s support more fish passage and fish restoration engineers.
My friend Margie died of cancer this summer. She was glorious: insightful, funny as hell, kind. She was the DFW Fish Passage engineer for the north state, including the Scott and Shasta Rivers. She designed and reviewed restoration and fish Continue reading
I saw this description of Abundance Progressivism with great relief. I was delighted for a name for my position. It also explained to me why I ve been irritated with the tear out your lawn school of water conservation in this Continue reading
Yesterday Max Gomberg had his last day at the State Water Resources Control Board. He sent this on his last day, and cc ed me. With his permission: Hello everyone: I am sharing my parting thoughts because I believe in facing Continue reading
I spent much of 2015 urging the State Board to issue a moratorium on planting new almonds (although I myself was too timid. I said to only restrict them in gw basins with declining water levels, although that is all Continue reading
When I observe that we are holding 2MAF of 2021 and 2022 water in stored almonds, I have some thoughts. You know, I don t fault growers for mis-reading the first year. The shipping situation was extreme and odd and we Continue reading
You may not know that the California almond industry has been unable to ship its almonds for two years (almonds used to be shipped to China in returning empties; the past two years ships aren t willing to wait at port Continue reading
It is actually a problem that the Newsom water administration are a bunch of goal-less fuckscannot articulate a clear vision for what California water should do. If we do not develop a clear new vision, we will keep operating from Continue reading