Flooding rice fields in the winter plays a crucial role in agricultural productivity and wildlife habitat conservation. Here, fish are released into a flooded rice field as part of a UC Davis research ...

AGFC's Wetland Habitat Management and Winter Flooded Rice Fields programs enlist the help of private landowners to provide more suitable habitats for waterfowl. "90 percent of Arkansas is ...

Science California Rice Fields Offer Threatened Migratory Waterbirds a Lifeline Conservation groups are working with Central Valley farmers to restore critical habitat for wetland birds struggling ...

A growing number of Arkansas farmers are taking up the seasonal fall and winter practice of flooding their rice fields after harvest to provide refuge to migratory waterfowl. The practice ...

A field begins to flood after harvest near Knights Landing, California. Paying rice farmers to create “pop-up” migratory bird habitat has since created tens of thousands of acres of temporary ...

The area’s vast rice fields have long provided habitat for migrating birds, which over the last century have lost most of the natural wetlands where they once stopped to rest and feed.

East bound and down (minus a load of Coors beer) was Part Two of my buddy Jeff and my adventure traveling from Denver to Augusta a couple of weeks ago. For a recap, day one started in Colorado and ...

Applications are now open for the WRICE program, which offers waterfowl habitat and public access to rice fields in Arkansas for the 2025-26 winter migratory season.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is looking for landowners to continue offering high-quality waterfowl habitat and public access to rice fields in Arkansas for the 2025-26 winter migratory season ...

T he Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) has been searching for landowners to continue offering high-quality waterfowl habitat and public access to rice fields for the 2025-26 migratory season.