• Posted on 04/06 at 06:58 AM
For those of you who didn’t make it out this weekend, the 4-Star Theatre has added an 8:30 showing starting tonight and running through this Thursday April 9th. Rivers of a Lost Coast is now playing at 2:40, 6:40 and 8:30pm at the 4-Star Theatre on 23rd and Clement
In unfortunate news, The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported that towards the end of last week, a sudden drop in water levels in several Russian River tributaries stranded Coho Salmon fry that ultimately died. The drop in water levels around Healdsburg was a result of farmers simultaneously drawing water from the Russian and several of its tributaries to protect against a potential frost kill. Coho salmon are an endangered species, protected under the State and Federals ESA. A similar situation happened last year that killed a significant amount of silver salmon fry. Last year’s event prompted a meeting with the State water Resources Control Board, which is set for this upcoming Tuesday. Last week’s die-off has only heightened the importance and arguments of the opposing sides.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat Article click here
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• Posted on 04/02 at 02:21 PM
Tickets will be available at movietickest.com for the SF premiere at the 4-Star Theatre on 23rd & Clement in the Richmond district. Showtimes are at 2:40 and 6:40. Get your tickets early for the 6:40 showing!
Earlier this morning, Palmer and I met with Walt Bennett, Joe Patterson, George Innes, Chuck Campana and Bill Kiene in Sacramento. We rehashed some talk about the film and early steelheading with cameraman John Breedlove of KCRA 3. It was good times to see the men quickly drop into their old selves, heckling each other at every opportunity, with enough inappropriate language and behavior to make the morning memorable.
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• Posted on 04/01 at 08:05 AM
Kevin Freking of the Associated Press reports several Central Valley lawmakers pleaded in front of their colleagues yesterday to try and get an emergency exception made to the Federal Endangered Species Act. Regulations in the ESA are creating reductions in Delta water deliveries made to towns and farm districts across the state. Dennis Cardoza D-Atwater and Devin Nunez R-Visalia said the planned water shortage was creating an economic crisis in their districts, resulting in a 20% unemployment rate and a startling departure of workers that they equated to a reverse Dust Bowl migration.
Freking went on to report “experts say the water shortage in California’s Central Valley, the most productive agricultural region in the country, results from myriad factors: the order reducing delta pumping, several years of below-average precipitation and California’s inability to upgrade its water system to meet the demands of a population nearing 38 million people. The state has said it will deliver only 20 percent of the water typically allocated for cities and farms this year. The federal Bureau of Reclamation, which operates a separate system to deliver water to farmers, has said it will not deliver any water this spring to farms south of the delta. Farmers north of the delta can expect to get just 5 percent of their contracted amount.”
The ESA has been used to enact special regulations to protect dwindling salmon numbers, but it’s primary focus in California’s Delta is to protect the devastated Delta Smelt. In our third year of below average rain and snow fall, the debate is quickly heating up. Environmentalist are claiming it is finally time to update California’s water supply delivery system, while farmers and water interests are warning these tough economic times are no time to fool around.
Kevin Freking Article
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