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Bits & Bytes

Environmentalists got lucky when a federal appeals court ruled in their favor over a lawsuit against Unocal concerning their selenium discharges this spring. The judges ruled that the enviro's lawsuit could proceed because the $780,000 the company agreed to pay as part of the 1994 settlement (see "Refineries") was not an actual "penalty" that would have precluded a private suit in the selenium matter.

A National Invasive Species Act was introduced in Congress on March 29, 1996 (S1660/HR3217). The bill features voluntary national guidelines for ballast water exchange at high sea, as well as record-keeping to establish compliance. Such issues were also aired before a national audience at an educational forum on ballast exchange and non-native species held on June 17 by the S.F. Estuary Project.

How to band birds, map geography and monitor water quality were skills participants in the Third Bay Area Volunteer Monitoring Conference learned during three field trips to local creeks. Over 125 would-be and experienced volunteer monitors and program managers attended the May 10-12 conference. In addition to the hands-on field trips, the event - coordinated by the S. F. Estuary Institute and Friends of San Leandro Creek - featured sessions on the student monitoring, data management and the role of volunteer monitoring programs in watershed management.

Schoolchildren waved banners written in Japanese off the shores of the South Bay's Bair Island on June 1, banners begging a developer to help the wetlands. It was the latest effort by environmental groups to turn up the heat on Kumagai Gumi Construction of Tokyo which has rebuffed attempts to add the island to the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The 1,700 acre diked Bair Island, which is actually three separate islands, is part of Redwood City, where it is zoned tidal, a city official says.

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