Links for Jane

September 28, 2009 @ 7:21 am | Filed under: Links

San Diego Reader | There Is No San Diego River -“We’re setting out to see if this 52-mile-long ribbon of life still has life in it. Or if it has been dammed and developed and poisoned to death by us — the three million people who’ve come here to a semi-desert and expect water whenever we turn the taps on.”
Bites of passage – The National Newspaper – ““There was no Jersey Shore before mosquito control,” Farajollahi, the county mosquito control superintendent, said – the coastal areas now filled with tourists originally belonged to clouds of hostile mosquitoes, which ranged far inland as well.”