Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was primarily a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would melt, swelling the rivers beyond their banks and casting the young fish out onto the floodplains. There they would stay...
In this issue: Implications of the Drought for California Agriculture Climatological Context for California’s Ongoing Drought, by John Abatzoglou California Farms Adjust to Drought, by Daniel A . Sumner, Carlyn Marsh, Quaid Moore, Scott Somerville, and Josué Medellín-Azuara Drought Impacts...
By Christina Souza The Newsom administration has informed regional water districts that it will move forward with a plan to increase flows from San Joaquin River tributaries in an action that may create more water uncertainty for farmers. A notice...
Environmentalists and their allies have scored two wins over agricultural interests in the decades-long conflict over how much water can be diverted from Northern California rivers and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. by Dan Walters, CalMatters Network The most important battleground...
The San Francisco Bay-Delta is one of the most invaded estuaries in the world, with non-native species now a large part of the Delta’s ecosystem. The invasion of new non-native species threatens the achievement of the coequal goal of “protecting,...
