• While much of our concerns about CA water are related to human consumption and how to guarantee there’s enough water to satisfy humna consumption, going a step firther back in the process brings us to concenrs about estuary and wetlands ecosystem health.  Such is certainly the case when thinking about the Sacramento Bay Delta, largest estuary of the West Coast of North and South America.

    Resources Agency Releases State Wetlands Report

     

    The California Natural Resources Agency Oct. 18 released its second State of the State’s Wetlands report which summarizes the progress made by many state agencies, public and private partnerships, and the federal government to protect, restore, and monitor California’s diverse wetland resources from 1999 through 2009.

    The report finds that California has made substantial progress over the last 10 years in efforts to identify, acquire, restore and enhance wetlands, and makes a number of recommendations on how the state and its partners can continue to make gains in wetlands and to provide state wetland managers with tools to better assess wetland quality and quantity.

    Specific recommended actions range from performing wetland inventories, to developing mitigation banking policies, to creating regional wetland restoration and planning efforts. Many of the recommendations require little or no additional state funding for implementation.

    To download a copy of the report, click here or visit the California Wetlands Portal.

    Submitted by Sarah Langford