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The Threatened Delta smelt is famous, but there's another smelt in the Bay Delta whose decline is worrying wildlife partisans.
Green sturgeon are highly adapted to conditions in the Bay Delta -- but those conditions are changing too fast for the sturgeon to keep up.
The Bay Delta's ecological productivity has dropped catastrophically. And the culprits live in the estuary in unimaginable numbers.
The more you study the Delta's sleek, silvery steelhead, the less you realize you know.
It's a complicated estuary where water from 75,000 square miles of California and sometimes Oregon drains into the Pacific, and it doesn't really have a name.
The tricolored blackbird was California's most common bird. Now, it's unusual to see one. And the state of California just decided it doesn't need protection.
The prehistoric Delta teemed with huge herds of hoofed mammals, and at least one large species of formidable carnivore hunted thems.
To fix the Delta, Californians have created laws, dams, aqueducts, and are now weighing tunnels.
For Californians, who has the right to water -- in what order, for what, in what quantity, and under what terms -- is not an easy answer.
NorCa thinks SoCal wants to drain it dry. SoCal doesn't even know where it is.
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The Delta, it turns out, isn't actually a delta, with islands that aren't strictly islands.