Against All Odds...Protecting the West's Largest Wetland

Peter Ottesen will discuss his book of the same title, going from the time of the northern Yokuts, to Cattle Baron Henry Miller, to the dewatering of the San Joaquin River, to fighting for water to sustain and protect the 240,000-acre Grassland Ecological Area. A classic example of private ownership fighting for a public trust resource. Also check out other Meetups in Stockton.

Ottesen is the award-winning outdoor writer for the Stockton Record, an educator who invented an outdoors program for students, the personal guardian of 2,800 acres of wetlands, and an expert waterfowl hunter and wildlife lover. His impact on the public has been far reaching and long lasting.

This is a combined meeting with the Delta-Sierra Group of the Mother Lode Chapter of the Sierra Club and San Joaquin Audubon Society