The San Francisquito Watershed Council sent a representative on this year’s Walk the Farm event sponsored by Stanford University. The event, devised by members of the Bill Lane institute for the Study of the American West, hearkens back to a time when ranchers walk/ride/drive their fence lines in the spring surveying their landholdings (often vast landholdings). This year, the Walk the Farm event focused on water issues, a subject that has shaped our physical and political landscape since anyone thought to record such details. Needless to say, water issues continue to play an important role in our ongoing history.
The event attracted some media coverage locally and regionally:
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=7885
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/02/MNRK10DPD6.DTL
Talks by researchers, engineers, and resource managers provided a great deal of insight as to the future of our water resources in the area.
