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The Department of Conservation (Department) is pleased to announce its 2007 Watershed Coordinator Grant Program Final Decision.
Click here for Final Decision List (PDF)
The Department’s decision is the result of an extremely competitive process and an impressive response from special districts, local governments, and non-profits throughout the state. The Department received 86 proposals requesting over $19 million in funding. The large number of proposals received reflects the great need for watershed coordination in the state. The $9 million allocated for this three-year grant program was sufficient to fund only half of the submitted proposals. The review committee recognized that there were many compelling and high-quality proposals that could not be recommended for due to funding constraints.
The Department encourages organizations which were not recommended for funding to continue watershed work through other means if possible. The management of water resources and the improvement of impaired watersheds is a high priority for the State, and watershed coordinators have shown great success in both areas.
The Department of Conservation provides assistance to California’s 102 Resource Conservation Districts (RCDs) in their mission to develop a land stewardship ethic that promotes long-term sustainability of the state’s rich and diverse natural resource heritage.
This support can take the form of
Some files on this site are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) or compressed (zip) format. Utilities to read both are freely available on the Internet. Spreadsheet information is formatted in Excel 97 or 2000 for Windows.
Resource Conservation Districts (RCDs) are "special districts" of the state of California, set up under California law to be locally governed agencies with their own locally appointed or elected, independent boards of directors. California RCDs implement projects on public and private lands and educate landowners and the public about resource conservation. RCDs, authorized under Division 9 of the Public Resources Code, work together to conduct:
Watershed planning and management
Water conservation
Water quality protection and enhancement
Agricultural land conservation
Soil and water management on non-agricultural lands
Wildlife habitat enhancement
Wetland conservation
Recreational land restoration
Irrigation management
Conservation education
Forest stewardship
Urban resource conservation