Eric Holmes is a researcher at the Center for Watershed Sciences. His work focuses on salmonid restoration and research projects in California’s complex ecosystems. https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/contributor/eric-holmes/rss en Agriculture Environment & Wildlife Innovation Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Eric Holmes https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2016/04/01/flooding-rice-fields-provide-hope-for-salmon https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2016/04/01/flooding-rice-fields-provide-hope-for-salmon We’ve engineered away most of the natural floodplain that used to exist in the Central Valley, and that’s bad news for juvenile salmon, which once relied on it for habitat. The Knaggs Nigiri Project is attempting to bring some of this back by flooding the fields of rice farmers.