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Friday’s top of the scroll: National Academy of Sciences studying Delta

Posted by: Maven on December 18, 2009 at 8:40 am

From Stockton’s Record:

“The National Academy of Sciences – a kind of “Supreme Court” for scientists – said Thursday it has started a two-year review on the declining Delta.

A committee of 15 experts from across the country will hold its first meeting Jan. 24-28 at the University of California, Davis.

The team will produce two reports. The first, due about March 15, will address whether there are ways to protect Delta smelt and salmon without reducing water exports to most of California.

This review was prompted by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-San Francisco, who on behalf of Southern California corporate farmer Stewart Resnick asked for an investigation earlier this year. … “


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BLOG COMMENTARY: Emily Green at the Chance of Rain delves into the Stewart Resnick issue a bit farther:

” … The assembling of these learned souls at the behest of US Senator Dianne Feinstein and California’s billionaire farming couple Lynda and Stewart Resnick brought to mind an incident that perfectly describes the reach of the Resnicks into institutions that we the people might fondly imagine to be incorruptible.

That incident was the 2002 sacking of journalist David Karp from the Los Angeles Times.

Calling Karp a journalist is an understatement. He is to fruit what David Attenborough is to critters. If a farmer grows a fruit in California, or the US for that matter, it’s a safe bet that David Karp has eaten it and as he steadily compiles an anthology of American fruit for WH Norton & Co., he’s probably written about it. Most recently, it was his work that alerted the nation to the citrus blight “greening.” His appetite and knowledge are so well known they even inspired a New Yorker profile. … “

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December 18, 2009 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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