Irrigated agriculture: precious habitat for the long-billed curlew Date: April 16, 2014 Source: Point Blue Conservation Science Summary: Despite the recent rainfall, California is still in a ...

Irrigated agriculture -- precious habitat for the long-billed curlew Peer-Reviewed Publication. Point Blue Conservation Science ...

Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $10 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to find ways to sustain ...

Across the Western Slope, birds and other wildlife have come to depend on artificially created wetlands, a result of flood irrigation. But as the state of Colorado grapples with whether to implement a ...

PERC also offers a financial incentive for certain new technologies through the Propane Farm Research Program. Examples ...

Irrigation organizations play a crucial ... 40 years—drew responses on the subject of drought resilience from more than 2,000 respondents in the 24 states where irrigated agriculture is ...

One of the least-known truths in the West is that many of our wetlands are the result of irrigated agriculture. For example, an irrigation company in northern Colorado irrigates about 24,000 acres ...

Irrigated farming, like all agriculture, also generates greenhouses gases. The work was led by Mallika Nocco, who recently completed her doctorate in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies ...

"This partnership shows what we can achieve when all levels of government and community partners come together." ...

KREMMLING — In the gray light of dawn, hundreds of swallows darted over a pool of standing water in an irrigated field along the Colorado River. The birds were attracted to the early-morning ...