Russian River Frost Program – North San Francisco Bay Area, Sonoma, Marin, Napa counties

Growers, regulators craft methods to manage frost water

March 8th, 2010

GEYSERVILLE — Winegrape growers that depend on water in the Russian River Basin to protect their vines from frost assert they have a better idea of how much water they’re using and how to limit such use, while wildlife regulators say they’re getting more precise information of water overuse and tools to curtail it.
Growers prepare for watershed moment at frost meeting

November 16th, 2009

SANTA ROSA – A coalition of farming trade groups and major winegrape growers in Mendocino and Sonoma counties plans to demonstrate the state water regulators at a meeting Wednesday that growers have made significant recent progress toward protecting fish while protecting their vines from frost, despite a new letter from federal fish wardens to the contrary.