Recent Posts
- Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary! April 1, 2020
- Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary List of Cancelled Events April 1, 2020
- Public Opportunity to Review and Discuss Fish Habitat Enhancement Projects March 1, 2020
- Save The Butterflies and The Bees – Our Favorite Pollinators Are in Jeopardy February 1, 2020
- Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle and Rot January 1, 2020
- Parting Wisdom: Perspective and Guidance from a Seasoned Storm Water Inspector December 1, 2019
- The Persistence of Plastic November 1, 2019
- Help Keep the Leaves and Grass Out of Storm Drains October 1, 2019
- Our Hidden Gem –Conservation Corps North Bay September 1, 2019
- Creek Week 2019 August 21, 2019
Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary!
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaWhile we socially distance and modify our daily routines to limit the spread of Coronavirus, individually celebrate Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary on April 22nd – the planet’s largest civic event by learning more about climate actions, conservation, our home watershed, and promoting a healthy, sustainable environment. What is Earth Day? Earth Day started on April […]
Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary List of Cancelled Events
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaThe COVID-19 pandemic will affect most events. Please check with the organizer or this blog regularly. Any updates will be posted as soon as they are available. Volunteer Clean-Ups Windsor Earth-Day Clean-Up — cancelled: Join the Town of Windsor Storm Water Quality Manager for a trash clean-up day and help protect wildlife by removing trash […]
Public Opportunity to Review and Discuss Fish Habitat Enhancement Projects
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaIt’s hard to imagine the Russian River without salmon or steelhead. These iconic fish were a major food supply for indigenous people and early settlers. They once gave the river the reputation as a world-renowned fly-fishing destination, are a critical link in the riparian food web – and are spectacularly beautiful. In the early 2000s, […]
Save The Butterflies and The Bees – Our Favorite Pollinators Are in Jeopardy
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaThe Monarch Butterfly One morning last summer, as I watched a pair of butterflies flying from bloom to bloom on a butterfly bush, I realized I hadn’t seen a Monarch Butterfly in years. I did some research and learned some distressing news. In January of 2019, the Xerces Society’s yearly census of the western monarch […]
Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle and Rot
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaAmerica is a disposable nation. Each person, on average, produces more than 1,600 pounds of trash each year. In total, over 230 million tons of trash accumulates in landfills yearly in the United States. Growing up you have likely been taught to help reduce your waste by practicing the 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. […]
Parting Wisdom: Perspective and Guidance from a Seasoned Storm Water Inspector
/in Environmental Columns /by Sabrina“The legacy you leave is the life you lead. We lead our lives daily, and we leave a legacy daily – not some grand plan, what we do each and every day, all the little decisions, because we never know what impact things will have or when you might have an impact.” -Jim Kouzes I […]