By Christine Souza, California Farm Bureau Federation The historically wet winter early this year motivated greater adoption of a water management strategy known as flood-managed aquifer recharge, or flood-MAR, in which excess flood flows are diverted onto farmland to boost...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … EVENT: Stewarding California’s Wet Years from 9am to 12:30pm. California has made great strides in preparing for a drier, hotter future, but it remains a challenge to harness the bounty of wet years while...
High-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S. Researchers quantified the value of managed low-intensity burning to dramatically reduce the risk of such fires for years at a time. By Rob Jordan, Stanford Woods Institute of...
A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service and you will receive notification of this post on Friday mornings. Readers on daily email service can add weekly email...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California water news today … Forecast for California’s atmospheric river event is in flux “Meteorologists are confident that...
by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current For the next three months, climate scientists say Nevada can expect warmer winter temperatures and above average rain. Unusually warm waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean this year have created an El Niño weather pattern ...
