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LIBERTY ISLAND A fisherman who has been working the Shag Slough for years pulled his line out of the water Tuesday, made his way up the levee slope and across a gated, concrete bridge to get to the other side of the slough.
Maybe the bite would be better over there.
A small group of people had set
The Commuter: Solano County can hide, but it cannot hide
Thanks to Google Maps, we commuter writer-types can get virtually anywhere.
That changes, however, when virtuality becomes reality and the last time anyone saw the road sign I desperately sought was when the revolutionary Mexican general, Francisco “Pancho” Villa, was roaming the Solano hillsides.
I love Solano folklore.
In the end, it was a good thing I ran out of road, otherwise I would have never found the road I was supposed to turn on. It was waiting for me right where it was supposed to be.
My travels this week took me to the proposed site of the $118.86 million Lookout Slough tidal wetland project.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
An aerial photo shows a portion of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Friday, March 8, 2019. (Ken James/California Department of Water Resources)
Group claims DWR plan will cut off access to Liberty Island recreation
FAIRFIELD A $118.86 million habitat restoration and flood management project will breach an existing levee in nine places to create a 3,000-acre fish and wildlife tidal environment in the Cache Slough Complex.
A group, referred to as libertyislandaccess.org, has asked Solano County supervisors to stop the part of the plan that would call for the county to vacate a section of Liberty Island Road, and by doing so, the group claims, deny residents access to recreational activities such as kayaking, fishing and hiking.