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Long-Time Napa Valley Vintners and Growers Enthusiastically Support Measure C
"Measure C was designed to ensure ongoing farming success in the Ag Preserve by ensuring that water remains available from the Agricultural Watershed zoning district. The beautiful oak-studded hillsides that surround the Napa Valley are also a critical source of our agricultural and town water supplies. Every grape grower, vintner, and citizen knows that water is an essential need in grape growing, winemaking, and the community. From our perspective, enhancing protections on these Ag Watershed lands, which recharge the reservoirs and the groundwater aquifers, is vital to ensuring the ongoing viability of the Napa Valley community and wine industry.
We are not radical environmentalists. We’re pragmatists in an era of extended drought, higher temperatures and growing competition for limited water supplies – from farming, a growing local population, and a robust tourism industry."
Science supports an imperative yes vote for Measure C
The science is solid and long settled that all watersheds in Napa County have impaired water quality from human land activities providing undeniable evidence that a yes vote on Measure C, the Watershed and Oakwood Protection Initiative is justifiable.
Napa's controversial Measure C: What effects on Napa Valley agriculture?
What's really "highest and best?"
When the Farm Bureau and its allied wine and hospitality industry partners use the “highest and best use” language, they are talking about vineyard and winery development - period. Never mind the historical agricultural uses of much of the Valley’s land, such as grains, vegetables and orchards. Never mind that the once-prevalent use of grazing on hillsides (“fuel management" in current wildfire-speak) greatly aided in the minimization of devastating conflagrations such as those of last October.
Measure C Will Protect Our water
I want to tell you why I am voting 'yes' on Measure C. I have lived in the same location in the county for over 50 years. My husband and I had a well dug in the late 1960s. We thought it was overkill, but we went to 405 feet. For years, we did not worry about having enough water for our home and gardens
Napa Valley should only change for the better
The Napa Valley will change, but it should only change for the better. There is plenty of land available in the outlying county for the planting of vineyards. Therefore there is no need, beyond perceived self-interest, to destroy the Valley’s signature landscape. Measure C is a modest first step in what must be an ongoing effort to conserve the legacy of the hard-fought battles of the past.
Respecting the past, supporting the future
As stewards of the land, it is our responsibility to look after our resources for the sake of the children, the wildlife and the economic well-being. Say Yes for Watersheds, Woodland and Wildlife. Yes on Measure C.
Balancing Napa's Future
I realize that change is necessary if you are going to be a successful farmer. However, how many new vineyards and wineries do we need? There are many vineyards already in the watershed. It only takes a Sunday drive along the rural roads to see them here, there and everywhere. How many more vineyards are needed to satisfy the opponents of Measure C before enough is enough?
Napa River headed for another tipping point
"Passage of Measure C will help protect oak woodlands, biodiversity, aquatic habitat, endangered steelhead trout, and the community’s water supply. Development pressures and the influence of big money have made protection of Napa Valley uplands challenging."