May 29, 2025By CalTrout
River Partners Associate Director of Restoration Science Michael Rogner joins CalTrout’s outstanding podcast, “Fish Water People,” to talk about how we transform former agricultural lands into native habitats, focusing on restoring the Sacramento River’s ecosystem. This multi-benefit restoration helps flood control, groundwater recharge, wildlife habitat, and community access to green spaces.
“One of the ways to think about our work is that we’re farming native habitat—instead of walnuts and almonds, we’re doing cottonwoods and willows. It’s obviously way more complex than that, but I think that’s a way that people can get an idea and a visual of what it is that we do. If you’re going to work at a scale where you can really impact wildlife species, where you can really recover wildlife, you have to be doing it at a big scale.”
River Partners Associate Director of Restoration Science Michael Rogner
