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Hood, California, is a farming town of 200 souls, crammed up against a levee that protects it from the Sacramento River. The eastern approach from I-5 and the Sacramento suburb of Elk Grove is bucolic. Cows graze. An abandoned railroad track sits atop...

“Ocian in view! Oh! The Joy!,” William Clark wrote in his journal on November 7, 1805 as he viewed what he believed was the Pacific Ocean, as the Corps of Discovery reached the broad estuary of the Columbia River, 20 miles from the coast. Clark’s exhilaration...

LETS GO FISHING *Hard copy of Jay’s columns can be found in the River News Herald & Isleton Journal APRIL 22, 2015 DELTA The spring striped bass bite is now taking place out on the Delta waterways with good reports coming out of Sacramento and...

When you’re faced with two different thorny problems, sometimes the best way to make progress is by combining them. I’m talking to you, Jerry Brown. Your first problem involves water. Residents of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta—California...

October 2, 2013 From the moment we started planning our trip we decided to spend at least two weeks in California.  We wanted to see some of the sights in places we had never been.  So we started south to the northern city of Redding CA. ...