As a result, fish and birds lose seasonal habitats and nurseries. Without them, the Delta’s native species are disappearing, replaced by invasives better suited to the new, more stagnant regime.

When water is siphoned away year after year, it adds up to an ecological overhaul. With less fresh water coming from the upper watershed, floodplains don’t flood, and wetlands in Suisun and the North Bay don’t get their regular pulse of low-salinity water.

The LADWP Commissioners approved a major water recycling & groundwater replenishment expansion. They stated that this will enable them to pause Mono Lake water diversions and allow the lake to rise to the healthy 6,392-foot elevation level—and make good on Los Angeles’s commitment to Mono Lake.

Thanks for the heads up! Looks good in camera shots from San Geronimo. Hard to see with naked eye.

There are no flowers, the herbage is brittle.
All night along the coast & the mountain crest
Birds go by, murmurous, high in the warm air.
Only in the mtn meadows the aspens
Glitter like goldfish moving up swift water;
Only in the desert villages the leaves
Of the cottonwoods descend in smoky air.

1993 L.A. Times article: www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

2025 was a remarkable summer--it never got hot for very long. It was our third coolest summer for max and average temps, third warmest for min temps. If you look at only early summer before mid-August, it was the coolest summer for max and average temps.

This has been a long-term problem for the Forest Service. In forestry classes 30 years ago I remember learning the term "analysis paralysis."

My daughter is obsessed. Her best friend has watched it like 40 times. Everybody is going as those characters on Halloween.