blog post Can We Capture More Water in the Delta? By Sarah Bardeen Jan 17, 2023 Jan 17, 2023 ... It's always been this way when it rains hard. Upstream reservoirs are capturing every drop they can right now. Only Folsom is releasing a ...
blog post The Promise of a Wet January By Jeffrey Mount Jan 5, 2023 Jan 5, 2023 ... The combination of high rainfall rates and winds causes urban and river flooding, as well as landslides and debris flows (especially in ...
Report Priorities for California’s Water By Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak, Sarah Bardeen, Alvar Escriva-Bou ... Nov 14, 2022 Nov 30, 2022 ... Over the past two years, low rainfall, warming, an increasingly thirsty atmosphere, and losses in snowpack have broken two of our most ...
Report Storing Water for the Environment By Sarah Null, Jeffrey Mount, Brian Gray, Kristen Dybala ... Aug 22, 2022 This occurs most commonly in wetter years or when early rains come in the fall. If high inflows occur during winter—when flooding is most likely to ...
blog post Commentary: Drought Requires New Strategies for Managing Cropland By Andrew Ayres, Caitlin Peterson Aug 9, 2022 Aug 9, 2022 ... “Dryland” crops, which rely solely on winter rainfall and soil moisture ... environment: Highly variable rainfall and low water availability ...
blog post Commentary: Can San Joaquin Valley Agriculture Survive with Less Irrigation? Here Are Ways To Do It By Caitlin Peterson Aug 5, 2022 Aug 5, 2022 ... And much of the valley falls into this low-rainfall category. But modern-day California grain growers can use other tactics to give their crops ...
blog post Video: Farmland in Transition—The San Joaquin Valley By Vicki Hsieh Aug 2, 2022 Aug 2, 2022 ... Cereals and forage crops grown with only winter rains or small amounts of irrigation could give growers greater flexibility—and build ...
Report Exploring the Potential for Water-Limited Agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley By Caitlin Peterson, Cameron Pittelkow, Mark Lundy Jul 20, 2022 Crops such as winter wheat grown using only precipitation to supply crop water requirements were once commonplace in the valley. Yet highly variable rainfall ...
blog post Our Experts Weigh In on the Drought By Ellen Hanak, Jeffrey Mount, Alvar Escriva-Bou, Sarah Bardeen Jul 19, 2022 Jul 19, 2022 ... Decent rains fell into some reservoirs, but Shasta barely got anything. Shasta is so critical for managing cold water for salmon that it's ...
blog post How Active Stewardship Could Protect California’s Forests from Extreme Wildfire By Sarah Bardeen Jun 6, 2022 Jun 6, 2022 ... The drought is a problem but it's also an opportunity. In January through March of this year, we missed a huge opportunity. We got no rain or ...