…The deadline for entries is November 20, 2015, giving challenge participants three months to create their applications. Winners will be announced in December 2015. The increased prevalence and availability of…
Record Number of Farmers and Ranchers Certified Under 2014 Farm Bill Conservation Compliance
…groups, and more. Since December 2014, USDA collaborated with crop insurers to ensure they had updated lists for agents to continue contacting producers to also remind them of the filing…
President Obama’s Designation of Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument
…Berryessa itself, which will continue to be managed as a recreation area by the Bureau of Reclamation. In December, Secretary Jewell, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell and USDA Under…
Westlands Urges Reclamation to Comply With ESA Regarding Releases to the Trinity River
…7 of the ESA. In December 2000, former Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt signed a record of decision that prescribed flow criteria for the Trinity River. These criteria were…
Gov. Brown Establishes Most Ambitious Greenhouse Gas Reduction Target in North America
…in December.” World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim: “Four consecutive years of exceptional drought has brought home the harsh reality of rising global temperatures to the communities and businesses…
California Leopold Conservation Award Seeks Nominees
…California Leopold Conservation Award will be presented in December at the California Farm Bureau Federation’s Annual Meeting in Reno. The California Leopold Conservation Award is possible thanks to generous contributions…
Top-Four Myths of the California Drought
…have filled Sites reservoir is largely from the December 2014 and the February 2015 storms. Importantly, if Sites reservoir was in operation today, total north of Delta storage this year…
USDA Provides Update on Avian Influenza Outbreaks
Dr. John R. Clifford (photo courtesy of USDA) Since December, there have been several ongoing, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 incidents along the Pacific, Central and Mississippi flyways. Cases in…
McCarthy Statement on California Water Restrictions
…and Senators Boxer and Feinstein opposed these proposals. As the drought continued to worsen, the House passed emergency drought legislation in December of 2014 to allow us to capture storm…
Governor Brown Signs $1 Billion Emergency Drought Package
…Central Valley Project. In December 2013, the Governor formed a Drought Task Force to quickly respond to the emerging drought impacts throughout the state. The following month, the Governor declared…
Kern County Farm Bureau Brings Awareness to Potential Funding Issues for the Biomass Industry
…plant located in Delano will be forced to shut down in December 2015 if AB 590 does not pass. There are currently 34 biomass plants in the State of California…
Governor Brown, Legislative Leaders Announce $1 Billion Emergency Drought Package
…Central Valley Project. In December 2013, the Governor formed a Drought Task Force to closely manage precious water supplies, to expand water conservation wherever possible and to quickly respond to…
Port Backup Creating Opportunities for Thieves
…the port shutdown has kept the majority of the fruit on the trees, and he heard one of his loads from December is still sitting at the docks. That predicament…
State Water Project Deliveries Increased Slightly
…on December 1, was increased after mid-December storms boosted river flows and tight coordination among federal and state water and wildlife-protection agencies allowed the SWP to store runoff south of…