Bill Paxson

Here’s something I don’t understand.  Actually, there’s a lot I don’t understand, but it’s best to take one item at a time.Today's item: The miasmic idea floating around in California state government of boring two massive tunnels u...

Water is the key.   Sprinklers spray it through the air.  Hoses and tubes flood fields and furrows.  The water comes, for the most part, from the Sacramento River, brought by organizations like irrigation districts and reclamation distri...

On the east bank of the Sacramento River near Rio Vista is a line of blue gum trees up against an old stretch of State Route 160.  A native of Australia, the blue gum is also called eucalyptus, eucalypt, or euc.  Of more than 600 species of e...

Reading IslandSeveral years ago, officials in California’s Shasta County kicked around the idea of developing a park on the Sacramento River a half dozen miles east of the town of Cottonwood.  Their comments, which appeared in the Anderson Valle...

For what it’s worth, I’ve never seen any point in complaining unless I can complain to someone who can take care of the problem.  In other words, don’t whine all over the place but aim at a specific target.But here I’m going to issue a gen...

Barge hole gravel bar area, Sacramento River, Tehama CountyThe barge hole, sometimes called the barge hole gravel bar, is a large public access playground on the Sacramento River about 25 river miles upstream from the community of Red Bluff.  On a...

If you’re good at television trivia or if you saw The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s or in reruns, you may remember Otis Campbell.  Otis was the Mayberry town drunk.  Wearing a silly grin on his face, Otis would let himself into the town�...

“Zen Thought Of The Day ...... Where does the white go when the snow melts?”–Guide Notes, Ted Fay Fly Shop web site (December 28, 2012)  Sacramento River, viewed from Sims Flat BridgeReporting from Dunsmuir at the end of December, the web si...

When I started to read about the trip that Gabriel Moraga took into the Sacramento Valley–he was the first person of European descent known to have traveled in the valley–I thought, oh sure, here’s this young guy totally bored with garrison duty,...

Tired of temps in the thirties?  Fed up with frost-covered windshields?  Wondering what the heck happened to global warming?  Bundled up in so many layers of clothing that you are no longer one with the aura that is California?Fear not, ...