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Jeffrey Mount and the Delta levee blues

Jeffrey Mount, a UC Davis geology professor and the Roy J. Shlemon Chair in Applied Geosciences, was included in “The Sacramento 100” — Sacramento News and Review’s 2010 round-up of the most influential, important and interesting people in...

Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 6:21 AM

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Author: Trina Wood

Tags: Delta (2), flooding (2), geology (1), Hurricane Katrina (1), Jeffrey Mount (1), levee system (1), Sacramento News and Review (1), UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences (4)

Invasive reed arundo is choking state waterways

In the early 1800s, European immigrants introduced the fast-growing giant reed arundo (Arundo donax) into California to use the canes for musical instruments. The plants were also used for erosion control and the reeds used for thatched roofing. However,...

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Posted on Monday, July 19, 2010 at 11:45 AM

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Author: Chris M. Webb

Tags: Arundo (1), erosion (3), fire (3), flooding (2), invasive species (8), native species (3), natural resources (2), water (3), wildlife (13)