FRESNO, Calif. – From an unassuming office of the federal Bureau of Reclamation here, Mike Delamore manages a problem that has felled empires since biblical times: salt. Delamore is drainage chief for ...
Recent observations of the scrubby banks in the Venice hinterland echo the faint wail of farmers' three wheeled trucks, ...
VALLEY CENTER —- San Diego County’s avocado growers have beenstruggling for years with the soaring cost of water and mandatorycutbacks in its use. But several dozen trees on the Nick StehlyRanch ...
Saltwater intrusion threatens coastal agriculture on the Delmarva Peninsula and in the Carolinas. Thousands of acres are already unable to be farmed. Conservation easements can facilitate a transition ...
“None of the top five plants eaten by people – wheat, corn, rice, potatoes and soybeans – can tolerate salt,” agricultural experts Edward P. Glenn, J. Jed Brown and James W. O’Leary wrote 16 years ago ...
When it comes to finding solutions for the desiccated Great Salt Lake, water rights attorney Nathan Bracken says he often hears Utahns blame agriculture. Farming is, indeed, the largest water consumer ...
We often describe the stillness and quiet of the desert as timeless. But deserts are dynamic and desert lakes fragile, none more so than Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Emblematic of the West’s Great Basin, ...
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