by Family Farm Alliance | Jul 11, 2022 | Priority Issues
Tensions intensify as immediate & long-term solutions are sought The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) last month issued a call to the public for assistance in developing future long-term operating provisions on the Colorado River. This announcement came within...
by Family Farm Alliance | Jan 4, 2021 | Priority Issues
The very significant federal presence in the West presents unique challenges that producers may not face in other parts of the United States, particularly with respect to the reach of the ESA. In the West, once certain water supplies – one of the few certainties in...
by Family Farm Alliance | Jan 4, 2021 | Priority Issues
Today, more than a third of the 3.6 million stream miles in this country are designated as “impaired” under the federal CWA. Under the ESA, 28 types of salmon have been listed and none have recovered. Though listing of waters as impaired and species as endangered...
by Family Farm Alliance | Jan 4, 2021 | Priority Issues
At the top of the list of the challenges confronting Western family farmers and ranchers is the daunting number of federal regulatory policy initiatives they face. These types of federal water resource policies and regulatory practices could potentially undermine the...
by Family Farm Alliance | Jan 4, 2021 | Priority Issues
The Alliance in 2015 released its water rights paper, intended to demonstrate the importance of the existing system, show that it actually works, and try to rebut growing arguments by some of our critics that the system should be scrapped and replaced with something...
by Family Farm Alliance | Jan 4, 2021 | Priority Issues
At the top of the list of the challenges confronting Western family farmers and ranchers is the daunting number of federal regulatory policy initiatives they face. These types of federal water resource policies and regulatory practices could potentially undermine the...
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