For the first time, this year's fishing season for Chinhook salmon off California and Oregon will probably be canceled due to lack of the fish in the Sacramento River. That doesn't address other threats to the fish: dams, river depletion for farming, changing ocean conditions etc. etc. (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/11/MNO6103NBB.DTL
Homeowners in part of southern Colorado have a rocky relationship with nearby methane mines. [We woudn't need to mine methane--a potent greenhouse gas--if we made better use of what our landfills and livestock produce] (Associated Press)
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/homeowners-feel-heat-in-west-coal-boom/n20080412050309990005
Johnsongrass in Mississippi and Arkansas crop fields is the newest weed found to have developed resistance to Roundup as a result of the herbicide's intensive use (Delta Farm Press).
http://deltafarmpress.com/soybeans/johnsongrass-scott-0319/
New York Times
*Rising crop prices are putting pressure on farmers to re-cultivate land which the government has been paying them to leave alone for wildlife and conservation. Environmentalists, hunters, crop-consumer groups and farmers are all players in this intensifying debate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/business/09conserve.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
The delisting of gray wolves as endangered in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, and the resulting wolf kills which have already begun, ignited a firestorm of public opinion and legal action.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/us/13wolves.html?ref=science
*A discussion on whether rising prices for conventional food might do some "good" by encouraging people to buy more organic and local foods.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/dining/02cheap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
A Grist critique of the above article, with lots of interesting reader comments
http://www.grist.org/comments/food/2008/04/04/?source=most_popular
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