Reis Valley and Mudville

A blog about California, sustainability, restoration, history, and more

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Why Marin County's Reservoirs are Full This Year

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Is it time to remove Nicasio Dam? I've been asking myself this question ever since I came across this great report from the 1960s on th...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

A Year Without Facebook

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2014 was a year without Facebook. I was on it for 5 years, and in September 2013 I downloaded everything on my wall and deleted my account. ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

No More Dam Sites

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I had a day to myself, so I did what I do best: I chose to climb a peak. Naturally, it was a county highpoint--Snow Mountain East, the highe...
Monday, October 20, 2014

A Great Great Grand Coincidence?

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My last update on the mystery of my great-great-grandparents left off with a probable coincidence in similar names. The essence of the myst...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

I Should Have Been a Schnautenhaus

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I wanted to post it here, but the script wouldn't work on blogspot, so here is my family tree , color-coded with the migration status of...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Reading the Rocks on Reading Peak

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Reading Peak - 8,714' Lassen peak was closed. This season was the 100th anniversary of the mountain's volcanic explosion in 1914, ...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

The California Grizzly

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There have been many ideas for returning grizzly bears to California. Most of these ideas, such as the Center for Biological Diversity's...
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Gregory J. Reis
California, United States
"Respect the land and its inhabitants--everything else will follow." Follow me on Bsky @gregorreis I am a watershed restoration ecologist who has worked to improve California water management for 30 years. This blog is a personal blog that contains my opinions only and not necessarily those of my employers. I am an explorer. A wilderness travel expert. A dad. I lived in Lee Vining for 16 years, and installed Mono County's first solar-electric grid intertie on the house in front of the post office. I am a former firefighter/EMT, and a 6th-generation Californian.
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