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Groundwater Awareness Week Blog Series: What is Groundwater Recharge?
For 2024 Groundwater Awareness Week, Sustainable Conservation is highlighting the avenues through which we strive to scale recharge efforts throughout the state.
Another Year of Deluge: Challenges and Potential Presented by the 2024 Wet Season
Is the drought over? No, but it’s complicated – so get in touch! We walk you through our work to date on recharge, flood risk and water quantity.
Welcome Richael Young!
Join us in welcoming Richael, the team’s Senior Director of the Water for the Future program
A Watershed Moment Interview Series: Turlock Irrigation District’s Michelle Reimers and Wes Miller
We chatted with Turlock Irrigation District’s Michelle Reimers and Wes Miller to discuss groundwater recharge and the future of California water management.
Gratitude.
Happy new year to you and your family and friends. Thank you for being part of the Sustainable Conservation community! A more sustainable water future is possible, and our climate resilience matters now more than ever. We’re grateful for your generosity and steadfast support and are proud to celebrate 30 years of sustainable and transformational…
Fall/Winter 2023 Webinar Series in Review: Our Watershed Moment
Missed any of the conversations in Our Watershed Moment webinar series? We’ve got you covered with a full recap of each event, plus recordings!
30th Anniversary Blog
We’re celebrating 30 years with a look back on our early successes and how our programs have grown.
Park Farming Organics Receives 2023 CA Leopold Conservation Award
Photo: Paolo Vescia The votes have been tallied, and thanks to our esteemed panel of judges, we’re pleased to announce that this year’s California Leopold Conservation Award recipient is Park Farming Organics. Park Farming Organics’ owners, Brian and Jamie Park, and Scott and Ulla Park, were presented with the award during the California Farm Bureau…
A Roadmap for Restoration
California’s Path to Creating Efficient Restoration Permitting and Sustainable Conservation’s Newest Project to Accelerate Restoration by Shayan Kaveh Before there were the levees, canals, and aqueducts that moved water across the Central Valley from the sierras to the sea, there were the rivers and floodplains. Nestled between one of America’s snowiest mountain ranges, the Sierra…
Six Barriers to Expanding Soil Health Practices in CA: Sustainable Conservation Releases 2023 Soil-Water Report
Soil health has the potential to play an outsized role in conserving and protecting California’s valuable water resources, which is at the core of our work. The following report represents an analysis of the barriers preventing California’s growers from implementing soil health practices and solutions to address them.
Restoration Round-Up: Butano Creek Floodplain and Streamflow Enhancement Project
by Eric Epstein From county-level programs to multi-agency statewide permits, our Accelerating Restoration program’s impact has grown exponentially in three decades. Hundreds of organizations and landowners have used the permits we’ve helped put in place to restore miles of critical riparian habitat, revitalize our rivers, protect iconic species, and reconnect our surface and groundwater resources.…
Celebrate 30 Years with Us!
This Giving Tuesday, we’re celebrating 30 years of stewarding California’s most precious natural resources. If you have already made a gift to Sustainable Conservation this year, thank you for your generous support! If you haven’t yet, this Giving Tuesday is a very special time to join us. All new and increased gifts will be matched…
