Leopold Conservation Award

Leopold Conservation Award Celebrating California farmers, ranchers and landowners for sound stewardship. In 2006 we teamed up with Sand County Foundation and the California Farm Bureau Federation to co-sponsor the Leopold Conservation Award in California. We’ve championed sustainable land stewardship for almost three decades. There’s one vital group of Californians that perhaps gets praised the least…

Water flows down a canal and through a gate to flood an almond orchard during a recharge event.

Water for the Future

Sustainable Conservation works with the people who drink, manage, and irrigate with groundwater to implement on-farm recharge and build large-scale watershed modeling across the Central Valley.

Waste Not

Sustainable Conservation promotes solutions to reuse manure nutrients, connect farmers and their land to a circular resource economy, reduce groundwater and greenhouse gas pollution, and build soil health.

An aerial view of an almond orchard with rows of cover crops in between trees.

Solutions in our Soil

Sustainable Conservation works in the soil-water nexus to understand how improving our soils can help California build a more sustainable water supply and protect water quality.