DOWN on the FARM
with Tom Willey
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Oct 2: Philip Garone “The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California’s Great Central Valley”
October 2: Environmental historian/author Philip Garone “The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California’s Great Central Valley”
California’s great interior river systems, the Sacramento and San Joaquin, once inundated some five million Valley acres seasonally, winter home and feeding grounds for countless winged migrants along the Pacific Flyway. Waterfowl Eden was vastly shrunken by agricultural development and flood control efforts initiated after the Gold Rush era. “Down on the Farm” host Tom Willey welcomes environmental historian and author Philip Garone discussing The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California’s Great Central Valley.
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