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Organizing for the Bay Area IRWM Plan Update
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Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation Dist. recently hosted a kick-off meeting to introduce local stakeholders to the timeline for updating the Bay Area Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (IRWMP). Since the Napa River and Suisun Creek watersheds are encompassed in the Bay Area IRWMP, the resource needs of these watersheds will be represented in the plan.
Local water resource agencies need community assistance to make sure local efforts and needs are represented in the Bay Area IRWMP. Accordingly, local watershed groups and agencies that are planning or carrying out water-related projects in these watersheds are encouraged to enter projects into the WICC's on-line project database. The project database will collect projects throughout the county to facilitate coordination, collaboration, and identification of funding and other related needs. Meeting attendees put their projects on the map using the analog approach of sticky notes - see accompanying photo.
Just Published! Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas
Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas
Exploring a Hidden Landscape of Transformation and Resilience
By Robin Grossinger
Design and Cartography by Ruth Askevold
How has California’s landscape changed? What did now-familiar places look like during prior centuries? What can the past teach us about designing future landscapes? The Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas explores these questions by taking readers on a dazzling visual tour of Napa Valley from the early 1800s onward—a forgotten land of brilliant wildflower fields, lush wetlands, and grand oak savannas. Robin Grossinger weaves together rarely-seen historical maps, travelers’s accounts, photographs, and paintings to reconstruct early Napa Valley and document its physical transformation over the past two centuries.
240 pp. 232 color illus. 26 line illus. 5 tables
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Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas: Exploring a Hidden Landscape of Transformation and Resilience
May 24, 2012 (7:00pm - 9:00pm)
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Written by Sarah Jane Keller, Salinas Californian, 2/2/12
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