Alastair Bland
Freelance Journalist and Writer at Freelance
I am journalist based in northern California. My writing focuses on the environment, climate change, water management in California and marine ecosystems.
Articles
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6 days ago |
mavensnotebook.com | Alastair Bland
A new kind of Delta diversion could extract water at a slow enough rate, and across a wide enough area, that proponents say fish would hardly notice it. by Alastair BlandIn California’s arid San Joaquin Valley, communities have long grappled with an unrelenting challenge: Their sun-blasted region doesn’t have nearly enough water—at least not to support agriculture of the scale and intensity that has been established in its fertile soils.
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1 week ago |
mavensnotebook.com | Alastair Bland
By Alastair BlandLong ago, the quiet shores of southern San Francisco Bay featured rich wetlands, streams thick with salmon and steelhead, and a bounty of other fishes and invertebrates which fed wildlife and people alike. Perhaps more than anything else, there was clean water. But after nearly two centuries of Western occupation and the steady pollution that has become a signature of our time, the South Bay has become a toxic sink.
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1 month ago |
stocktonia.org | Alastair Bland
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Near the southern flank of Mount Shasta, springs and snowmelt converge to form the McCloud River. This Sacramento River tributary, held sacred by the Winnemem Wintu tribe, teemed with Chinook salmon before Shasta Dam, built in the 1940s, blocked their annual migrations. “The winter run was the main sustenance source for the Winnemem Wintu throughout history,” said tribal member Gary Mulcahy.
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1 month ago |
redding.com | Alastair Bland
Show Caption Hide Caption Lake Shasta in California fills up for third straight yearLake Shasta is standing at above-average water levels after powerful rainstorms during the winter, but there's reason to be cautious. This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Near the southern flank of Mount Shasta, springs and snowmelt converge to form the McCloud River.
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1 month ago |
capradio.org | Alastair Bland |Yolo Bypass |Sara Nevis |Larry Valenzuela
By Alastair Bland, CalMattersThis story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Near the southern flank of Mount Shasta, springs and snowmelt converge to form the McCloud River. This Sacramento River tributary, held sacred by the Winnemem Wintu tribe, teemed with Chinook salmon before Shasta Dam, built in the 1940s, blocked their annual migrations.
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