The James Logan Courier

By Julia Scott
Contra Costa Times (MCT)

PESCADERO, Calif. — Locals have spent every winter for the past 15 years watching silvery steelhead trout die in Pescadero Marsh. Now they are tired of waiting for state officials to step in, and are preparing for a major fight — in court.

The problem has been studied to death, literally. "We're now 15 years in and the problem is still unsolved. When the system is in utter collapse, you don't study that. You take action," said Ronda Azevado Lucas, an attorney representing a group of Pescadero anglers and concerned citizens who have accused state resources agencies of abdicating their responsibility to protect sensitive fish and amphibians under the California Endangered Species Act.

By Margot Roosevelt
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — A task force of California politicians, business people, academics and environmentalists is calling on incoming Gov. Jerry Brown to appoint a climate risk council within his office to focus statewide attention on adapting to the effects of global warming.

In a report to be released Monday, the 23-member California Adaptation Advisory Panel, a group convened by the Los Angeles-based Pacific Council on International Policy, calls for stepped-up data-gathering, monitoring and coordination among state agencies and in the private sector to prepare for a steep sea level rise, diminishing water supplies and the spread of wildfire, as studies have predicted.
"Adaptation to climate change has been virtually ignored," said panel co-chairman William K. Reilly, a former administrator with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

"A report like this reminds the agencies to pay attention and stiffens their spines. It implies planning: We're not going to build a road in this place because the odds are it is going to get washed out."

From wikipedia:
William J. Powell (November 22, 1916 – December 31, 2009) was the first African American to design, construct and own a professional golf course in the United States. Powell was fond of saying "The only color that matters is the color of the greens".

Powell was the grandson of Alabama slaves and was born in Greenville, Alabama. During his youth moved with his family to Minerva, Ohio. In high school there, he played golf and football. Later, at the state's historically African-American Wilberforce University, he played on the golf team.

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