…a serving of pistachios is equal to 49 nuts, which is more than any other tree nut. And since most pistachios come in a shell, the act of shelling the…
Agri View: Marijuana, a Hot Crop
…which is one of the first steps towards Endangered Species status (and all the federal protections it entails). In 2012 and 2013, Mourad Gabriel, then a doctoral student at UC…
State Water Project Allocations Doubled
…water supply in the Delta without unreasonably affecting threatened and endangered fish species. That team works to balance multiple demands in the Delta while managing water project pumping infrastructure that…
Nigiri Project Mixes Salmon and Rice Fields
…a bug buffet for small fish,” said Jacob Katz, Central California director for California Trout. “Our previous results have shown that the food-rich floodplains appear to act as an important…
House Agriculture Committee Reviews State of the Rural Economy
…the Great Depression. While members thanked the Secretary for his service, they also raised a number of concerns, including the impact that the continued outlook for depressed prices could have…
Open Data Powers Conservation Mapping Tool
…large landscape-level effort that led the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to conclude last year that the sage grouse did not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. Learn more…
Agri View: Women and Modern Agriculture
…labour-force statistics may actually underestimate the amount of work that women do: women are less likely than men to define their activities as work, they are less likely to report…
DWR Draft Regulations for Managing Groundwater Basins Sustainably
…basins as outlined in the landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, enacted by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in September 2014. An overview of the draft regulations was presented to the…
California Ag Secretary Lauds Food Safety Program Ready to Implement FSMA Now
Late last year the FDA published the final Produce Rule, which is a key component of new federal food safety laws under the Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA. Now…
Western View: Behind the Sagebrush Rebellion
…such as protecting endangered species, which may conflict with the ranchers and miners, or any other private development. That’s where this movement to privatize federal land comes from. These people…
National Almond Day
…almond groves because almonds took route in the ground on which they fell. Evidence of this occurs even today in central California, where wild species of almond trees can be…
USDA Initiative Restores Forests, Reduces Wildfire Threats through Local Partnerships
…and quantity, improve habitat for federally listed species, reduce the threat of and intensity of wildfire, improve forest health, and provide environmental education. In its first two years, the AOWR…
CCM Responds to Introduction of Feinstein Water Bill
…a very necessary and positive step toward a policy that both protects the integrity of the Endangered Species Act biological opinions and clarifies where flexibility could exist in the storage…
Water Agencies Encouraged by Introduction of Senate Water Bill
…The legislation advances efforts to provide common sense Congressional direction on the application of the Endangered Species Act to the operations of the CVP and SWP and a roadmap for…