Many farmers in our state struggled with drought last year. Even though we had decent snowpack in the winter, early melt-off led to water shortages across the county. By April of 2025, the snow-water equivalent in the Dungeness-Elwha watershed was only at 55% of normal (NWCC 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additionally, June of 2025 was very dry, with only 18% of normal precipitation recorded at the Elwha Ranger Station (NPS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This caused the Department of Ecology to issue a drought emergency for 19 watersheds across the state, including the Sequim-Dungeness River watershed. If you are a farmer and you need information about how to deal with drought, call us at the WSU Extension Office of Clallam County at (360) 417-2279 or check out our website by clicking this link to WSU Clallam Extension’s Water Conservation page<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Sharah Truett Many farmers in our state struggled with drought last year. Even though we had decent snowpack in the winter, early melt-off led to water shortages across the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":3922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_external_link":"","_expiration_date":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/regionalsmallfarms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/regionalsmallfarms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/regionalsmallfarms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/regionalsmallfarms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/regionalsmallfarms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/regionalsmallfarms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/regionalsmallfarms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/regionalsmallfarms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/regionalsmallfarms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/regionalsmallfarms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/regionalsmallfarms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}