Fish Friendly Cannabis Practices: Scale and Opportunities for Environmental Change Hollie Hall, Ph.D. u Owner, Hollie Hall & Associates u Owner, Compliant Farms Certified u Board Member, International Cannabis Farmers Association u Member, Humboldt County Fish & Game Advisory Commission u Member, Humboldt County Eel River Valley Groundwater Working Group
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Fish Friendly Cannabis Practices: Scale and Opportunities for Environmental Change
Hollie Hall, Ph.D.
uOwner, Hollie Hall & Associates
uOwner, Compliant Farms Certified
uBoard Member, International Cannabis Farmers Association
uMember, Humboldt County Fish & Game Advisory Commission
uMember, Humboldt County Eel River Valley Groundwater Working Group
Outline1. Spatial Examination:• California’s Licensed Cannabis Cultivation.• California’s Cannabis Small Irrigation Use Registration.
2. Spatial & Volume Comparison:• California’s Irrigation Water Rights.• California’s Cannabis Small Irrigation Use Registration.
3. Fish Friendly Cannabis Farming Practices.
4. Cannabis Impacts on the Environment: Pathway Forward.
Cannabis Irrigation Water Rights by Beneficial Use
Aesthetic
Fire Protection
Fish and Wildlife Preservationand Enhancement
Industrial
Irrigation
Recreational
ü100% of CSUIR is captured during the wet season.
Fish Friendly Cannabis Farming PracticesüWet season water capture.üForbearance of dry season pumping.üMulching.üCultivating in the earth.üManaging for living soils.üPolyculture.üWater use monitoring.üConservation irrigation.üRiparian corridor setbacks.üIntegrated Pest Management.
Cannabis Impacts on the Environment: Pathway Forward
ü Support compliant cannabis farmers to steward watershed ecosystems: tax incentives, grant funds, training.
ü Quantify positive impacts of compliant farming activities on indicators of ecosystem health: riparian corridors, stormwater infiltration, dry season stream flow enhancements, habitat.
ü Broaden focus to include landscape scale issues: forest management, non-cannabis irrigation, groundwater supplies.
ü Research ‘organic’ cannabis pest and disease bio-control methods by Marrone Bio Innovations: Venerate, Grandevo and Regalia in particular.