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Meet the 2022 California Leopold Conservation Award Finalists
Meet the California finalists for the Leopold Conservation Award, and learn how their conservation ethos drives their farming every day!
Kim Delfino: Problem Solving, Pushing Forward, and Looking for Solutions
We sat down with Kim Delfino, California environmental champion and longtime Sustainable Conservation board member, to talk about her environmental journey, inspiration and problem-solving ethos.
Assessing Opportunities to Drive Better Outcomes for Water and Sustainable Agriculture
Last year, we introduced you to Mikayla Tran, our 2021-22 GrizzlyCorps Fellow. We’re celebrating the culmination of her time with Sustainable Conservation, a white paper focusing on two comprehensive California water policies and where they can, and should, intersect. Mikayla studied the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) and the Central Valley Salinity Alternatives for Long-Term…
Three Things to Know about the New U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Restoration Authorization
You may have heard about efforts like the State’s 30×30 land and coastal waters conservation initiative or Cutting Green Tape, which aim to conserve and restore habitat faster, and at a larger scale. But, why does the pace and scale matter? With over 90% of California’s riparian habitat depleted and thousands of communities at risk…
Aquatic restoration projects made easier in California thanks to new statewide consultation available to federal agencies
We’re excited to announce a brand-new restoration consultation in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service! Thank you to all of our partners, consultants and, most importantly, team members whose years of hard work helped usher this important collaboration across the finish line. Stay tuned as we dig into the details of what this…
A Look Back on Spring’s Climate Resilience from the Ground Up
A resounding THANK YOU to everyone who joined us this spring for our Climate Resilience from the Ground Up event series! We’re so grateful to all of our amazing panelists, staff members, and guests who contributed to our rich dives into various aspects of California’s interconnected climate challenges. Many thanks also to our generous sponsors…
Introducing Roshni Katrak-Adefowora
We’re pleased to welcome Roshni Katrak-Adefowora to our team this month! Roshni joins us as our Data and Science Communication Specialist on our Water Recharge Team. She’ll work on collecting, compiling, and manipulating new and existing data while centering our agronomic, environmental, and community priorities. Roshni has a demonstrated and deep passion for data analysis and presenting…
2021 Annual Report
Learn about what your support made possible in 2021 – from accelerating restoration to protecting water quality!
A Watershed Moment with DWR’s Kamyar Guivetchi and Ajay Goyal
Our partnership with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is the bedrock for expanding our climate-modeling scenarios and tools to four additional watersheds in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV.) We sat down with Kamyar Guivetchi, Manager of the Division of Planning, and Ajay Goyal, Manager of the Statewide Infrastructure Investigations Branch, to talk about…
A Watershed Moment: Kate Ridgway on Curiosity and Environmental Ethos
Sustainable Conservation donor and Los Angeles native Kate Ridgway has been starstruck since she was five years old, when her father took her out of the urban sprawl of LA and up to her family’s forest service cabin at Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. “After dark, we went down to the lake…
A Watershed Moment: Scaling Integrated Water Management
We dove deep into flood risk, floodplain potential, and environmental possibilities with our Water for the Future Program Director Aysha Massell. Now, we’re talking to our entire water team about why our DWR-backed watershed expansion is a watershed moment for Sustainable Conservation, and for California. We chatted about why scale matters when managing water, what…
A Watershed Moment: Aysha Massell on Floodplains, Recharge, and Collaboration for the Future
As we chart a path for our joint effort to expand our Merced River Watershed study to four additional watersheds in the San Joaquin Valley, we checked in with Water for the Future Program Director Aysha Massell to learn more about why the project is so critical for California’s water and people. Massell gave a…