CalTrout’s Knagg’s Ranch project in the Yolo Bypass is a strong example of how we are driving innovative solutions that work for farmers, commerce and the community.  Knagg’s Ranch is also a model for a larger effort taking place in the Yolo Bypass, called reconciliation ecology, which encourages land and water managers to re-engineer human-dominated landscapes to be more hospitable for native species without significantly diminishing human uses.

For more about these efforts read the California WaterBlog “Reconciling fish and fowl with floods and farming.” 

Rice fields on the Yolo Bypass, an engineered floodplain of the lower Sacramento River. Photo by Carson Jeffres, UC Davis