Edited sentence: Finally, and shadowing all other achievements, Robert Mondavi played a significant role in the intra-regional destruction of ecosystem services formerly obtained from the watersheds of central coastal California.The destruction generally was precipitated by diverting large amounts of surface water from surface water streams which effectively deprived aquatic organisms of their essential life-base, entraining inordinate amounts of sediment into such watershed from grading, road building and the like, and finally, massive devegetation of valley bottoms and slopes in preparation of land for the monoculture that is the vineyard component of the California wine industry