For more information check the Web sites: www.farmerscreen.org, www.fcasolutions.org, and www.rootofsustainability.org. The nonprofit Farmers Conservation Alliance, based in Hood River, Oregon, is selling a novel fish screen to farmers and using the proceeds for projects to benefit rural communities and farmers. The fish screen that it sells was invented after a flood in the Hood River Valley caused massive damage to irrigation systems. The Farmers Irrigation District lost its entire infrastructure, including its fish screens, which were the rotary drum type. After the flood, it decided to design a new type of fish screen that would be self-cleaning, have no […]