Between Silicon Valley and Hollywood lays California’s Central Valley, the oft-ignored and most fruitful base of agriculture in the country. For years, farmers along Interstate 5 have staked poster signs outside of blackened fields, proclaiming, “CONGRESS STARTED THE DUST BOWL.” This week, President Trump may have saved it.

Because of the sheer magnitude of the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Angeles metropolitan area, California is the bluest state in the union, but the farmers in the state’s center have long warred with the environmental lobby over a species of tiny, three-inch fish: the delta smelt. To keep the state’s freshwater available to the long-diminishing population of delta smelt, environmentalists successfully lobbied Sacramento to massively restrict the state’s waterways, crippling California’s agricultural production and forcing billions of gallons of freshwater to be dumped into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta instead of using it for farming.