Rice Fields

DFG Offers Sacramento Valley Winter Swan Tours

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Join a Department of Fish and Game (DFG) naturalist-led swan tour of Marysville’s Rice and Waterfowl area November through January. Co-hosted by local rice farmers and land owners, these tours will focus on finding Tundra Swans, as this tract is… Continue Reading →

Conservationists & Rice Farmers Agree: Project is for the Birds

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Seventy rice farmers in Glenn and Colusa County have signed contracts to participate in a $2.68 million pilot project with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to modify their rice fields and production practices to benefit shorebirds and waterfowl. In… Continue Reading →