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Poseidon invites cities to talk water rates
Negotiations between Poseidon Resources and various city and water agencies are underway in hopes to determine potential bidders of desalinated water. Poseidon Resources, which have had talks with the city of Huntington Beach about building a...Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Saudi Arabia, Environmental Issues, Salt, Conservation
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Lopes stars in win
Timmy Lopes started things for Edison on Tuesday, then polished things off. Lopes, a senior, opened the scoring and took to the mound in the late stages of Edison's CIF Southern Section Division 1 wild-card baseball game against Chaparral, and his book-...
Tags: Forests, High School Sports, American Legion, Sports, High School Baseball
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Vote on homes by Bolsa Chica is postponed
The California Coastal Commission on Wednesday postponed its vote on a housing project it once rejected because of its close proximity to protected habitat near the Bolsa Chica Wetlands. Shea Homes, a 50-acre, 111-home project at 17301 Graham St.,...Tags: FEMA, Environmental Issues, Politics, Elections, Wetlands
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'We're letting him do his own thing'
When a dolphin swam into Bolsa Chica sometime before noon Friday, the wetlands got a surprise visitor. Now, they may have an unintended mascot. Five days and many media stories later, the dolphin still hadn't left the water near Warner Avenue and Pacific...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Wetlands, Science and Technology, Zoology, National Marine Fisheries Service
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Natural Perspectives: Make every day at home Earth Day
Earth Day falls on a Sunday this year. The folks at Bolsa Chica celebrated Earth Day on April 14 with tours, live snakes, and even a bounce house for children. The Amigos de Bolsa Chica, the Bolsa Chica Conservancy, the Bolsa Chica Land Trust and the...
Tags: Earth Day, Natural Resource Industry, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Central Park
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Natural Perspectives: The return of vanished species
When Vic and I were growing up, wolves had been extirpated from the lower 48 states and the California sea otter was thought to be essentially extinct. The last gray wolf in California was killed in Lassen County in 1924. Gray wolves were hunted...Tags: Earth Day, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Hunting, Wildlife
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Booms could keep trash from wetlands
County officials and a Huntington Beach environmental nonprofit have identified possible locations for a pair of booms to keep trash from flowing into the wetlands. Giatho Tran, a project engineer for the Orange County Flood Control Division, said his...Tags: Environmental Issues, Wetlands, Natural Resources
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In the Pipeline: To Bolsa Chica, with love
This week we're talking historic milestones. First of all, Valentine's Day marks the 15th anniversary of the major state acquisition in Bolsa Chica, which tripled the size of the state ecological reserve. And last month was the 20th anniversary of the...Tags: Restaurants, Human Interest, Environmental Issues, Pacific Ocean, Wetlands
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Poseidon wetlands questions persist
A state commission has reiterated its concern that the site for Poseidon Resources' proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant may contain wetlands. The California Coastal Commission, in a March 20 letter to Poseidon, requested a number of documents it...Tags: Environmental Issues, Wetlands, Companies and Corporations, Plant Openings, Economy, Business and Finance
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Natural Perspectives: Things are just ducky at our house
Vic and I have a sure-fire sign that spring has sprung. A pair of mallards has returned to our front yard. Every year in early March, a pair of mallards has taken up residence for a few weeks. They swim in our front yard pond and scarf up greenery and...Tags: Environmental Issues, Wildlife, Lakes and Ponds
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In The Pipeline: The O'Reilly factor at Bolsa Chica
"It's not a park, it's an ecological reserve!" So intoned my friend Ross Griswold, who tracks bird behavior at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands. We ran into each other the other day on the trail and ended up lamenting the ever-increasing abuses by dog owners...Tags: Justice System, Judges, Environmental Issues, Wildlife, Conservation
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Natural Perspectives: Priority should be preventing extinction
An article in Physorg.com this week reported that a team of scientists from Japan and Russia believe that they may be able to produce a living woolly mammoth within the next five years by a cloning process. Key to their research will be finding an...Tags: Gardens and Parks, University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Issues, Wildlife, Conservation
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