While looking for short-term ways to cover the costs of operating its marinas at Bodega Bay, Sonoma County is also beginning to imagine a transformative future for those facilities.

Masons MarinaCounty Regional Parks head Caryl Hart is also applying a wide-angle vision to all of the state and county-owned public lands along the Sonoma Coast, with an eye toward expanding non-vehicular access in as many creative ways as can be developed.

On yesterday's North Bay Report we heard about some of the projects underway this year for the Russian River. The watershed is home to many state and local efforts to bring back threatened and endangered fish. In the final part of our series, KRCB's Danielle Venton reports on the river's water quality and finds that while things have improved, there is still a long way to go. (Image: The Russian River near Monte Rio, Calif. Courtesy of Flickr/Steve Shupe.)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calls non-point sources our nation's largest water quality problem. Local experts say that's true in the Russian River too. Learn more from the regional Water Quality Control Board.

Just a few decades ago, the Russian River hosted rich salmon runs. Tens of thousands of returning fish put the area on the map as a world class fishing spot. Now, county, state and federal agencies are working desperately to conserve the few remaining fish. In this first of a two-part series, KRCB reporter Danielle Venton examines the state of the river, asking what progress has been made recently, and what work there is still left to do.

By 2020 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Sonoma County Water Agency plan to create 6 miles of enhanced habitat along Dry Creek, beneath Warm Springs Dam. Image courtesy of SCWA.

A new documentary examines worker-owned cooperative businesses, from a huge complex in Spain to small start-ups here in the Bay Area.

Filmmakers Mark Dworkin and Melissa YoungCo-ops were already a well-established form of enterprise long before they were embraced by the counterculture of the 1960s. Yet the way they are perceived politically is surprisingly divers, observes filmmaker Mark Dworkin.

Mondragon is a conspicuous example of established co-ops nurturing the creation of new ones. But there are numerous instances, Dworkin points out, including a relatively new one here in the Bay Area:  Women's Action to Gain Economic Security, or WAGES.

Shift Change is being shown at the Sebastiani Theater in Sonoma on Monday, Jan. 28 at 7:30, sponsored by the Praxis Peace Institute.