How much do farmers pay for water? Is agriculture still important to the State’s economy? Does farm water use harm the environment? Find the answers to these and other questions about farm water. How much do farmers pay for water? Is agriculture still important to the State’s economy? Does farm water use harm the environment? […]
How You Can Help Support California’s Family Farmers
Learn what you can do to help support California’s historic and bountiful agriculture industry. Write a letter today! California family farmers need your help and support to ensure that new contracts for water from the Central Valley Project are renewed without delay. You can provide important help by writing a letter today to: The Honorable […]
Marcia Sablan
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It’s not uncommon for farmers and farm workers to sit shoulder-to-shoulder in the spacious waiting room of the Sablan Medical Clinic on Firebaugh’s main thoroughfare. Inside the bustling clinic, Dr. Marcia Sablan and her husband maintain a busy practice they started 24 years ago as newly minted physicians required to serve a rural community as part of a community service requirement.
A California Without Rural Communities
Firebaugh is a small town on the west side of California’s San Joaquin Valley. As one of the oldest continuously populated settlements in the Valley, it boasts a rich history of Native American and Mexican culture, gold rush prospectors, Italian, Portuguese and Dust Bowl farm workers. Throughout its history Firebaugh has remained a hub of […]
A Flexible System for People and Fish
South Delta Improvement Program In August of 2000, after years of deliberations, hundreds of public meetings and development of a full-blown environmental impact statement, the state-federal partnership known as CalFed issued an 846-page Programmatic Record of Decision. This document, a detailed long-term plan for managing California’s water resources and restoring its environment, included a series […]
Farm Water and the Environment
California farms provide important environmental benefits, such as habitat for wildlife and migratory waterfowl.
Continue readingMike Ratley
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Ratley has become a familiar voice to KMJ Radio listeners from Redding to Bakersfield and California’s Central Coast with his southern drawl and down-home philosophy. Some of his ads have nothing to do with selling cars, either. If a particular subject is important to Ratley, for example election politics, he’ll record a commercial to let you know what he thinks.
Decisions Based on Sound Science
California Bay-Delta Authority Advisor, chemist, Wim Kimmerer Kimmerer is a researcher at the Romberg Tiburon Center, a research and teaching laboratory of San Francisco State University located in Marin County. He has a background in chemistry and biological oceanography with interests in zooplankton ecology and the ecology of estuaries with an emphasis on the San […]
Harvested Rice Field
When the California rice crop is harvested, the leftover rice serves as an important food sources for millions of ducks, geese, pheasants and other wildlife
Continue readingCalifornia Aqueduct
The California Aqueduct is part of the State Water Project, which was
designed to provide water primarily for urban use.