It is fish-food season in the Sacramento Valley. A private-public partnership of landowners, water districts, government agencies, conservation organizations and university researchers are again pursuing the Fish Food on Floodplain Farm Fields project in the Sacramento Valley. Channel 3 in Sacramento recently did the following story on this innovative program, which we encourage you … Continue reading “Fish-Food Season in the Sacramento Valley”

Yesterday, partners collaborating in efforts to enhance the habitat values of lands contributing to the Pacific Flyway in the Sacramento Valley gathered at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area to recognize the work that had occurred during the past year. For the first time in several years, the Flyway was not suffering from conditions related to … Continue reading “Celebrating the Pacific Flyway”

By Mary Fahey Colusa County Water Resources Manager These are historic times for groundwater management in California, with the onset of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), and recent extreme drought conditions that were followed by one of the wettest winters on record. Prior to this last winter, a ten year stretch of generally dry … Continue reading “Sustainable Groundwater Management in Colusa County”