By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Sep. 4--A surprising degree of consensus is emerging among longtime foes on a plan to protect the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, but battle lines remain visible on the most controversial puzzle piece: a peripheral canal.

The Department of Water Resources has scheduled a Public Information Meeting to discuss the Phase 1 (Risk Analysis) of the Delta Risk Management Strategy (DRMS) project. It will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 26, in Rio Vista.

SUISUN MARSH, Calif. _ Save the flowers. Save the birds. Kill the pigs. This was Ted Champagne's mission deep in a maze of tule-covered islands and twisting sloughs where he steered his shallow hunting boat and waited for his Catahoula hounds to catch a whiff of wild pigs.

By Denis Cuff, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Oct. 30--Patrick Graham knew fall had arrived by the honking and cackling of thousands of migrating ducks and geese in the vast expanse of ponds, fields and mudflats in the state wildlife areas of Suisun Marsh where he works.

By Peter Ottesen, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Oct. 10--Grizzly Island closure starts today The Grizzly Island Wildlife Area will be closed to all general public use during waterfowl hunting season beginning today and will reopen Feb. 5.