From the Stockton Record:

“Normally content to boast about their favorite birds or gaze at them through binoculars, members of the Lodi Sandhill Crane Association suddenly find themselves immersed in a fierce controversy over state water policy.

“The association’s board voted last week to oppose the new alignment of the governor’s proposed twin tunnels, which would now run beneath Staten Island, a key wintering home for 15 percent of the Central Valley’s migratory cranes, a threatened species in California.”

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