Following is a link to the Rural Alliance’s Anna Ransome’s excellent Close to Home “New Winery Backlash Rising” in today’s Press Democrat:
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/opinion/3557003-181/close-to-home-new-winery?page=0
The PD also published “Can’t Afford to Ignore Wetlands” as a Close to Home by the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation’s executive director David Bannister on Feb. 2, at the following link: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/opinio...me-cant-afford.
The new and acclaimed “River River: All Rivers” documentary by William Sorenson, which has been selling-out audiences around the county, has important footage on how the over-development of the wine industry damages the Russian River Watershed and the Laguna de Santa Rosa. It is a must-see to better visualize and understand how the excessive wine industry damages nature.