Tag Archives: Restoration

Sustainable Conservation Receives CalTrout’s Streamkeeper Award

Photos courtesy of CalTrout We are honored to announce that we received CalTrout’s Streamkeeper Award, presented at their 50th anniversary gala this past month. We at Sustainable Conservation have a great deal of respect for CalTrout’s mission of ensuring resilient wild fish thrive in healthy waters for a better California – an area of environmental […]

PPIC Restoration Panel Speaks to Smarter Permitting, Watershed Solutions

Advancing Ecosystem Restoration with Smarter Permitting panelists (left to right): Moderator Letitia Grenier (2020 PPIC CalTrout Ecosystem Fellow and resilient landscapes program manager, San Francisco Estuary Institute), Heather Dyer (CEO/general manager, San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District), Xavier Fernandez (planning manager, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board), Erika Lovejoy (program director, accelerating restoration, […]

CalMatters Op-Ed: How Cutting Green Tape Can Make California More Resilient

Yolo Bypass. Photo: DWR. Read our latest op-ed by CEO Ashley Boren in CalMatters on how California’s Cutting Green Tape efforts mean big wins for waterways and wildlife, and a substantive way to boost both our economic and climate resilience. “With 30 percent of plants and animals facing extinction, and predictions that we have 10 […]

Lower Tuolumne River Accessible Again: Dennett Dam Removal Restores 52 Miles of Fish Habitat, Revitalizes Community

During and after construction: paddlers can enjoy the transformed site as they traverse this scenic urban river, and fish can swim freely. Photos: Tuolumne River Trust. Illustration: NOAA Fisheries. We’re celebrating the 5-year anniversary of the Habitat Restoration and Enhancement (HRE) Act by spotlighting all of the amazing habitat- and species-boosting work restorationists do around California. This month, […]

HRE Act Celebration: Fish Passage Clears Way for Steelhead, Chinook, Coho

Photo: Mendocino County RCD In 2020, we’re celebrating the 5-year anniversary of the Habitat Restoration and Enhancement (HRE) Act by spotlighting all of the amazing habitat- and species-boosting work restorationists have done around California. What: Bridge Installation/Fish Passage Improvement Who: Mendocino County Resource Conservation District Where: Rancheria Creek, a tributary of the Navarro River A lot of […]

HRE Act Celebration: French Creek Coho Habitat Revitalized

Photo: Betsy Stapleton/Scott River Watershed Council In 2020, we’re celebrating the 5-year anniversary of the Habitat Restoration and Enhancement (HRE) Act by spotlighting all of the amazing habitat- and species-boosting work restorationists have done around California. We recently checked in with Betsy Stapleton of Scott River Watershed Council (SRWC) for an update on the group’s […]

Spotlighting 5 Years of Critical California Restoration

Photo: K. King/FWS California faces many challenges this year. Climate change has spurred the worst wildfires our Golden State has ever seen. Over a million acres of wildlife habitat have burned in 2020 alone, and our “fire season” stretches on. Thanks to the hard work of our firefighters and community members, California’s resilience capacity is […]

Habitat & Clean Water Wins Make the News

We’ve been in the news recently, and we thought we’d take a moment and share a few stories with you. Our teams are hard at work every day moving the needle on our programmatic work, and it’s a joy to take a pause and celebrate how much we’ve accomplished – and the possibilities in front […]