A Review of the Use of Science and Adaptive Management in California's Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan

by National Research Council, Panel to Review California's Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan, Division on Earth and Life Studies, et al.

The San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary is a large, complex estuarine ecosystem in California. It has been substantially altered by dikes, levees, channelization, pumps, human development, introduced species, dams on its tributary streams and contaminants. The Delta supplies water from the state's wetter northern regions to the drier southern regions and also serves as habitat for many species, some of which are threatened and endangered. The restoration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309212316
• ISBN13: 9780309212311
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 92 Pages