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Drought 2022

March 9, 2022 by sergneri 1 Comment

March 9, 2022, Petaluma CA I just searched this blog for the word DROUGHT and found all the entries dated from 2020. I decided to start this journal due to the household conversations we’ve had on how we are going to ration our irrigation water this year. Water is due to become even more expensive … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: California, Drip Irrigation, drought, Eel River, irrigation, La Niña, Lake Sonoma, Petaluma, Rain, Russian River, Sierra Nevada, Sonoma County, toilet, Water, Water Rationing, water year

The Legend of the Geysers

January 24, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Reading the Healdsburg Enterprise of Feb. 21, 1878, I came across a feature article titled “The Legend of the Geysers”. It is a story about how the geyser area east of Healdsburg between there and Calistoga was discovered by the local Indians. You can read the article here and, for another take on the same … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: 28 February 1878, Ashochimi Indian tribe, Grizzly Bear, Healdsburg Enterprise, Independent Calistogian, Legend, Russian River, San Francisco, the Geysers

Healdsburg Enterprise, 26 May 1906

April 2, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Under the PAGE ONE heading: PERSONAL ITEMS CULLED FROM ENTERPRISE OF THIRTY YEARS AGO: … When, ere many years, a through overland road shall pass through here, it will give the Easterner a glimpse of our verdured hills, of our rich alluvial valleys, of our rushing, sparkling mountain streams, of old Russian River, kissed by … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, History, Thinking about Tagged: California, Healdsburg, Russian River, Sonoma, Sonoma County

Save the Fish – 1888

November 14, 2015 by sergneri

Happily, I found this opinion piece from the Dec. 27th, 1888 Marin Journal. I’m happy as it shows we have been aware of the problems of over fishing and pollution “way back when”, one hundred plus years ago. It is disheartening to see that some of the same problems exist today. Marin Journal,  27 December … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Environment, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: 1888, Fish, Giant powder, Marin Journal, Paper Mill creek, preservation of the species, Russian River, salmon, Sonoma creek, spawn, trout, trout hog

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