In the fall, rice fields in the Sacramento Valley usually shine golden brown as they await harvesting. This year, however, many fields were left covered with bare dirt. “It’s a disaster ...

Rice farmers started flooding fields to clear postharvest stubble in the 1990s, when California restricted rice straw burning to curb unhealthy toxic emissions. Biologists quickly saw unexpected ...

Scientists Use Flooded Rice Fields in California to Raise Juvenile Salmon By Joe Rosato Jr. • Published April 13, 2017 • Updated on April 14, 2017 at 8:33 am BOOKMARKER ...

California rice fields fuel salmon migration. Story by Luke Cleary • 3w. A record-setting amount of food for endangered fish was produced this winter on California rice fields, scientists say.

From ducks and cranes to giant garter snakes and salmon, flooded rice fields in California’s Central Valley offer important — often vital — habitat to many wildlife species. Yet ...

In April, just as rice farmers in the Sacramento Valley received water to flood their fields, record evaporation of snowpack on the Sierra Nevada mountains meant some 800,000 acre feet of water ...

Johnson said more than 230 species of wildlife use rice fields as a natural habitat. “After harvest season, the sky over the rice fields would be filled with geese and ducks,” he said ...

Small bugs in California rice fields are making a huge impact for salmon. For decades, the number of salmon in the river has sharply dropped, but now scientists believe they just might have a ...

In addition to flooding their fields for waterfowl, some rice farmers have hunting blinds that they lease to hunters for anywhere from $3,000 to $8,000 per season, said Dan Smith, a waterfowl ...

Consequently, rice production in the Sacramento Valley has dropped significantly, said Tim Johnson, president and CEO of the California Rice Commission, a nonprofit representing over 2,500 rice ...