winter flooding

The Arkansas Waterfowl Rice Incentive Conservation Enhancement program was developed by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists to help keep waste rice available for ducks, geese and other migrating birds when they pass through each winter. It has recently been...

About 9,000 baby salmon have been placed into winter-flooded Sacramento Valley rice fields as part of the second year of the California Rice Salmon Pilot Project. The fish are in eight specially prepared test plots in a living scientific experiment...

The California Rice Commission has been working closely with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish rules for new California Winter Rice Habitat Incentive Program. These rules, published in the Department’s Public Solicitation Notice, establish the provisions for...

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Assembly Bill 2348, also known as the "California Winter Rice Habitat Incentive Program." Carried by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), the legislation authorizes the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to contract with private landowners...

Idle rice fields in the winter can act as surrogate floodplains to help rear juvenile salmon, according to a recently published study. Titled “Floodplain Farm Fields Provide Novel Rearing Habitat for Chinook Salmon,” the study provides further evidence that idle Central...