By Danny Merkley, California Farm Bureau Federation As a fourth-generation Sacramento Valley farmer and the California Farm Bureau’s director of water resources for nearly 14 years, I have learned that California’s farmers and ranchers are the real environmentalists. That title...
By Chris Scheuring, California Farm Bureau Federation Amid historic heat and drought, California’s rivers and creeks dwindled early this year. Many, if not most, of our reservoirs are at exceptionally low levels. And this year we are faced with a...
Written by John Brennan Late in 2015 two sisters contacted me to help sell their family farm property in Solano County next to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. They had decided it was time. The property is marginal pastureland that was...
Californians face another of its periodic droughts and also long-term questions about the supply and uses of water. By Dan Walters, Cal Matters By the time this column is published, Northern California may be receiving some much-needed rain, and possibly...
The Department of Water Resources should enhance groundwater protection with changes to California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. By Jeanette Howard,...
Commentary written by Puanani Faleofa Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), Water and Land Protector We need more water and land protectors. California has both a water and land crisis. Save California Salmon, HSU Native American Studies, Tribes and School Districts have...
