http://www.californiaspigot.blogspot.com/
"CALIFORNIA DELTA AS NATIONAL HERITAGE COULD HELP SAVE ITS PEOPLE
Many people have their eyes fixed on the Delta's natural resources: its water, its imperiled fish and the 750 or so species that live there or use it seasonally, like sandhill cranes. But there is another species that has lived in the Delta for 10,000 years. That would be human beings, and they also are imperiled.
Some 2,500 souls live in the Delta today, mostly farming families. Many have been there for generations, living in a time and place that seems from another era. Freeways stop at the borders of the Delta. So do gas stations. Main thoroughfares from the Bay Area to Stockton and Sacramento route drivers around the territory, not through it. ....."
www.restorethedelta.org
Many people have their eyes fixed on the Delta's natural resources: its water, its imperiled fish and the 750 or so species that live there or use it seasonally, like sandhill cranes. But there is another species that has lived in the Delta for 10,000 years. That would be human beings, and they also are imperiled.
Some 2,500 souls live in the Delta today, mostly farming families. Many have been there for generations, living in a time and place that seems from another era. Freeways stop at the borders of the Delta. So do gas stations. Main thoroughfares from the Bay Area to Stockton and Sacramento route drivers around the territory, not through it. ....."
www.restorethedelta.org