El Dorado County farmers looking out for fish in nearby streams
By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee
El Dorado County is adopting Fish Friendly Farming.
The concept has nothing to do with trout farms or other aquaculture.
It’s about growing farm crops and raising cattle in ways that keep surrounding streams and rivers clean.
El Dorado County farmers, the local resource conservation districts and a Napa-based nonprofit have banded together to establish a program in the foothills that – until now – had mostly been used near the wine-growing areas of Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino.
“We saw what they were doing down there,” said Mark Egbert, manager of the El Dorado County and Georgetown Divide Resource Management Districts.
It looked, he said, like a “perfect fit” for El Dorado County.