WHEP Program a Win-Win for California Rice Waterbirds

Cary Blake, Western Farm Press,

 April 8, 2013   WHEP program a win

The Montna farming family of Dingville, CA., successfully integrates commercial rice production on its 3,000 acres of land with habitat enhancement practices which benefits waterbirds, thanks to a partnership with California’s Natural Resources Conservaton Services (NRCS).

Leopold Conservation Award 2010

“Sand County Foundation presents its Leopold Conservation Award to a private landowner who exemplifies the spirit of this emerging land ethic – an individual or a family who translates their deep abiding love for the land by leaving their land better than they found it.”   …Sand County Foundation

 

Leopold Conservation Award 2010