Hi, All!

Dick Filson (dfilson@inreach.com)
Thu, 01 May 1997 18:10:36 -0700

This is team #2 of Stockton, California checking in. We are Dick Filson and Carol
Zucca. We teach at Edison High School. We are currently looking at the
environmental issues the seem most pressing in this area of the Great Central
Valley. We are sited at the head of the San Joaquin Delta where all of western
divide of the Sierra flows into the Pacific. Here too is where the great water transfer
occurs reversing the natural flow of freshwater to the farms and cities of California.
Stockton, one could say is the "systemic heart" of California.

Some of the pressing environmental issues include water quality, ground water,
salt water intrusion, invasion of exotic aquatic species, habitat fragmentation,
endangered species, air pollution, soil erosion (wind and oxidation of peat soils),
etc. Sounds like a terrible place. Somehow we like it, and too many others do too
so we are also facing the effects of urbanization and the loss of prime farmland.

Boy, this is gonna to be a tough choice.

What I really want to know is how we are going to effectively impact the minds of
600 students a year (2400 total enrollment) in our classes to the degree of direct
involvement in contemporary environmental efforts? Looking forward to some
answers.

Dick Filson

Dick