“It’s been amazing just getting to see nature take it back over,” Stevenot said.
“When you go out to a commercially farmed orchard or field, and you stand there and listen, it’s sterile. You don’t hear anything. But you come out here on that same day, you hear insects, songbirds. It’s that lower part of the ecosystem starting up.”
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"The vegetation figures itself out, and what we’ve seen is, it’s resilient". Its amazing how many folks find this strange.
"“Dos Rios is good, but we need 50 more of it,” said Jane Dolan, the chair of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, a state agency that regulates flood control in the region. “Do I think that will happen in my lifetime? No" and this is sad.
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https://www.rewildingmag.com/california-solve-water-woes-flooding-farmland/
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Restored floodplains in the state’s agricultural heartland…
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