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The competition between farmers and fish for precious water in California is intensifying in wine country, suggests a new study by UC Berkeley biologists. The study links higher death rates for threatened juvenile steelhead trout with low water levels in the summer and the acreage of vineyards upstream.
Tag: wine industry
Western bluebirds: Rx for vineyards plagued by insect pests?
January 6, 2012:
Research by Berkeley postdoc researcher Julie Jedlicka suggests that encouraging bluebirds to nest in vineyards can help control insect pests. The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
