When I interviewed with the Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission last month, someone on the panel equated the conservation partnership in the recent past between local, state, and federal agencies to a three-legged stool: each leg of the stool is equally important to anyone planning on sitting down. If you know anything about me, you know I’m big [...]
Not only does forest thinning provide economic benefits to rural communities and reduce the amount of vegetative fuels for fires on public and private lands, but it yields another important benefit, as well: more water. This article was previously published by California Farm Bureau Federation in Ag Alert on April 13, 2011. Thanks, Farm Bureau! As the [...]
From the “we told you so” file: a draft of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) reportedly proposes upping reliance on watershed of origin and senior water rights holders (many of them Agricultural and municipal) to meet environmental and water quality needs in the Bay Delta. This despite passage of The Delta Reform Act of 2009 which clearly states water [...]
Here’s more on the State Water Resource Control Board’s (SWRCB) Delta Flow Criteria Report. State Board Adopts Delta Flow Criteria, an analysis posted on Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard’s website at http://www.kmtg.com. August 10, 2010 “The State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) on August 3, 2010, adopted Delta flow criteria pursuant to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Reform [...]
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