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Tidal waters cover what was until recently dry pastureland and is now part of the Point Reyes National Seashore on Tomales Bay. MARK ARONOFF/Press-Democrat  
Press-Democrat  

Restoring marshland

Project re-creates wetlands as they were 60 years ago

Driven by a high tide, water from Tomales Bay now flows onto a pasture skirting Point Reyes Station, almost 2 miles past where a levee had once been constructed. For the past 18 months, earth-moving equipment has been reshaping the 550-acre pasture, which is half of all Tomales Bay wetlands. (Santa Rosa Press-Democrat)
ALSO:
• Agencies revise guidance to protect wetlands, streams

Before and after at the Altoona Mine. TONY D'SOUZA/Mount Shasta News  
News  

Before and after

Altoona mercury mine cleanup ends in Trinity County

The EPA has completed major cleanup work and removed its personnel and equipment from the remote Altoona Mine site west of Castella. "The Repository," a stunningly large, four-acre, 125-foot-deep hole in the ground, has been filled with the mine’s toxic tailings and capped. (Mount Shasta News)

The state government's Sierra Nevada Conservancy meets in Murphys for a rare appearance in Calaveras County. CRAIG SANDERS/The Record  
Record  

Chosen watchers

Conservancy board descends on Sierra Nevada region

This is where water comes from, but not much political power. And that's why California's Sierra Nevada Conservancy exists and is meeting this week in the midst of the vast Sierra Nevada Region. (Stockton Record)  BOARD AGENDA

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