Justin Fredrickson

California Farm Bureau, Water and Environmental Policy Analyst

Justin Fredrickson is a Water and Environmental Policy Analyst employed at the California Farm Bureau.  The California Farm Bureau, part of a nation- and state-wide federation of affiliated State and County Farm Bureaus, is California's largest grassroots agricultural membership organization.  During his 18-year tenure at the Farm Bureau, Justin has worked on a wide range of agriculture- and environment-related California water issues, primarily in the administrative and regulatory context.  Justin's work on California water issues at the Farm Bureau has afforded a never-dull, front-row seat to most, if not all of California's major water resource-related issues of the last two decades including CALFED, the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan and California Water Fix processes, Delta Vision and the Delta Plan, the Bay-Delta Plan Water Quality Control Plan Update, enactment and implementation of California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, Proposition 1's Water Supply Investment Program, development of the California Water Resilience Portfolio, and the 2014-15 and 2021-22 droughts.  Justin has participated in many stakeholder and public participation processes on behalf of the California Farm Bureau, including frequent comments and testimony, as part of Farm Bureau's water team, before the State Water Resources Control Board and California Water Commission.  Justin has worked on legislative issues in coordination with Farm Bureau's Government Affairs Division, and heavily in the area of water rights, water supply and, most recently, climate-related issues.  In addition, Justin is very active on flood and anadromous fish-related and ESA issues, among other water- and agriculture-related topics.