Fish Friendly Farming Now Offers Program for Rangeland

Fish Friendly Farming provides for voluntary, self-directed compliance with the rigorous standards of state and federal water quality laws (Clean Water Act), the federal Endangered Species Act, the state pesticide laws as well as local regulations.

It was developed by Laurel Marcus in 1999 and sponsored for its first five years by the Sotoyome Resource Conservation District. Much of it was patterned after the UCCE Rangeland Water Quality Planning shortcourses. It focused initially on grapegrowers, and will now expand to grazed rangelands in the North Bay counties. A colleague of mine, Dr. Larry Ford, is a scientific advisor for development and implementation of the new program.  For more information, go to http://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/index.html.