Photo Gallery: Delta Leadership Program in Rio Vista

    Participants of the 2026 Delta Leadership Program met in Rio Vista on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, for their third seminar of the year, a lively day of discussion featuring:

    • A discussion of the Delta environment with Cory Overton, Science Director for California Waterfowl; Kimberly Evans, researcher for the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences; and Jerred Dixon, director of Staten Island (Conservation Farms and Ranches). Dixon is a 2023 alum of the program and a member of the Delta Protection Advisory Committee.
    • A visit to the Dutra Group to learn from company Vice President Ryan Abood about levee repairs and dredging in the Delta.
    • Lunch at Foster’s Bighorn, legendary for its densely packed taxidermy collection.
    A man at a conference table smiles as a man seated next to him laughs
    A woman at a restaurant table full of people smiles; on the wall behind them is a wall of taxidermied bighorn sheep heads.
    A woman at a conference table speaks
    People gathered around a restaurant table with a wall of taxidermied bighorn sheep heads on the wall behind them
    A man at a conference table holds two thumbs up in an "outta here" gesture.
    A man at a restaurant table gestures in a conversation with an unseen person across the table; in the background on the wall are the skulls and antlers of two moose that had locked horns.
    Four people at a conference table smile as they engage in an activity
    A woman at a conference table gestures in front of her with palm facing down
    A woman at a conference table laughs as she gestures with open palms
    A man at a conference table gestures with his left hand open and facing up
    A man at a conference table smiles a a woman seated next to him looks on
    A man reclines on a giant anchor sitting on a lawn
    A group poses with a giant anchor on a lawn with a wide river and vertical lift bridge in the background