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3-2 Vote Again…usual Supervisors vote for status quo

Well Ordinance that needed to be updated was foiled once again by the “usual suspects” Gore, Hopkins and Rabbitt in favor of status quo and gift for wine industry to keep on pumping our public resources for their profit. (Remember before 1970 no grapes were watered of course lower yields and less $ for the …

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UPDATE: 3-2 Supervisor vote for wine interests…Winery Event Ordinance Returns Yet Again to Sonoma Board of Supervisors

As many readers may recall, in December 2014 in response to community outcry, the Board of Supervisors directed staff to prepare options for updating policy on regulating winery events, particularly in the over-concentrated wine areas of Sonoma Valley, Dry Creek Valley and Westside Road, either as a zoning amendment or local event guidelines. Finally, after …

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Almost a third of world’s tree species face extinction: Report | Climate Change News | Al Jazeera

Almost a third of world’s tree species face extinction: Report | Climate Change News | Al Jazeera Conservation group says the number of threatened tree species is double the number of threatened mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles combined. General view of a tract of the Amazon jungle which burns as it is cleared by loggers …

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Will Bucklin at his dry-farmed vineyard Old Hill Ranch in Sonoma Valley. Photograph: Charlotte Simmonds for the Guardian

When in Drought, California Dry-farming by The Guardian

  When in Drought, California Dry-farming by The Guardian Dry farming forgoes modern irrigation and, farmers say, produces much tastier crops. In a drought-stricken state, should others follow suit? Wine grapes were not watered in Sonoma and Napa before the 1970’s. Corporate wine moved in after that and water use became the norm. Grape growers …

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