Imagine my joy when I saw that Emily's weekly post was back!
Imagine my despondence when I saw that it was an abbreviated version because she's still in the throes of moving.
So here is what she has, all related to the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan, except for a beautiful painting (is there any other kind?) by Claude Monet, "Bathers at La Grenouillere".
I was overly optimistic when promising the return of “The week that was” this Sunday. More succinctly, I lied. My apologies. I am neck-high in packing boxes and movers wait for no blogger. In the stead of the Sunday news round-up, this letter. Sent last week by environmental organizations including the Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Friends of the River to the California Natural Resources Agency, it’s an expression of highly formalized disgust at an emerging agenda for the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan, which environmentalists see as benefiting water exporters more than the buckling estuary tapped by California’s State Water Project.
The BDCP is supposed to be out right before Thanksgiving. I am hopeful that date is met because the National Research Council review panel I'm on has to review this quickly - final copy in by 30 April 2011. Sounds like a lot of time, but it isn't, especially when you figure that our review itself has to be peer-reviewed.
Here is the panel's WWW site. and its membership roster.
Not much sleep on tap for 2011....
"But it's all right now
I learned my lesson well.
You see, you can't please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
-- Rick Nelson, 'Garden Party'
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