Services
The Yolo County Resource Conservation District (YCRCD) employs a watershed-level approach for an integrated assessment of resource inputs, outputs, and impacts.
To promote good stewardship we:
- Employ staff with training in a variety of disciplines and successful grant-writing, planning, permitting, outreach, and implementation experience
- Develop, evaluate, and implement conservation practices with cooperative land users
- Provide technical guidance, and on-site implementation expertise
- Develop funding to aid with emerging regulations and technology
- Sponsor partnerships and networks
- Planning and Management
- Grant Writing, Project Management and Report Preparation
- Restoration, Conservation Plans and Revegetation
- Permit Coordination and Safe Harbor Solutions
- Project Implementation
- Bioengineering Projects
- Water Quality Solutions (sediment traps, vegetated drainage ditches, cover crops, filter strips, and tailwater ponds)
- Riparian, Upland, and Wetland Restoration
- Native Plant Landscaping and Revegetation
- Weed Management Strategies and Weed Control
- Studies and Monitoring
- Site Assessments
- Monitoring Plans
- GPS Fieldwork and GIS Mapping
- Water Quality Testing, Irrigation Water Evaluations and Management
- Data Collection (soils, wildlife, plants, invasive weeds, photo monitoring, endangered species, surveys, etc.)
- Outreach and Education
- Workshops and Events
- Newsletter, Website, and Publications
- Site Tours and School Field Days
- Farm Preservation and Conservation Easement Support
