BOISE — At least 70% of the state Legislature is expected to participate in an Aug. 23-25 tour of agriculture operations in southwest Idaho.
Brad Carlson
field reporter, SW Idaho and SE Oregon
Changing flood-control rule curves contemplated.
The Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer gained 2.3 million acre-feet of water in the past five years despite losing 550,000 in the last year due to low snowpack and runoff.
The 22 weather and soil monitoring stations in Idaho vineyards may soon get new sensors and some additional capabilities.
ISDA could accept license applications from growers and handler-processors from mid-October through year’s end if USDA approval comes when anticipated.
The Leadership Idaho Agriculture Congressional Aides Fact Finding Tour will be Aug. 9-13 in the state’s south-central region.
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Idaho's Snake River Complex Fire and Oregon’s Bootleg Fire — the nation’s largest — have helped push U.S. acres burned more than one-third higher than the 2020 year-to-date total.
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U.S. wildfire managers have declared their highest level of alert, the earliest it has been reached in more than a decade.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will resume work on the American Falls Dam’s concrete spillway on Aug. 1. The eastern Idaho dam is undergoing a three-year rehabilitation.