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Family Water Alliance Awarded Grant for Llano Seco / M & T Ranch Project

Chico, CA  – The Llano Seco / M & T Ranch Cone Fish Screen project was selected by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) for Proposition 1 funding.  The funding was awarded to Family Water Alliance (FWA) who has screened over 40 diversions throughout the Sacramento and Central Valley over the past two decades.

2019 Annual Dinner a Success - A record crowd gathered in November for the annual Hot Cajun Night dinner.

Modoc Hosts Sheepdog Nationals, Alasdair MacRae Crowned Champion - This year the National Sheepdog
Trials were held in Modoc County near Alturas. Where the finest most talented sheep dogs compete to move sheep from one field to another through a complicated set of moves that include the separation of a specific sheep from the herd...

Fight To Save Local Farmland Gets Personal - grow to a proposed power transmission line that would carve a wide and destructive path through productive agricultural land in Northern California, threatening long-time farming families and the businesses and communities that both depend upon and support them...

The Sites Project is a proposed 1.8 million acre-foot offstream reservoir in California’s largest watershed. This innovative and environmentally-focused project, located in Colusa County, will greatly increase the reliability of statewide water supplies for environmental, agricultural and urban uses...

The book Young Men and Fire by author Norman Maclean about the loss of a team of smoke jumpers in a fire in Montana in 1949, is just one of the stories that serves as a reminder about the dangerous nature of fire in the west. Since 1949, more firefighters have lost their lives and the number of deaths seems to be increasing with the severity of the fires...