Wildlife Conservation Board Funds Environmental Enchancment and Acquisition Initiatives
A restored meadow alongside Yellow Creek in Tasmam Koyom (aka Humbug Valley) in Plumas County with Meadow Penstemon blooming within the foreground. Photograph © Ryan Burnett.
At its Jan. 13, 2023 assembly, the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) accepted roughly $70.14 million in grants to assist restore and shield fish and wildlife habitat all through California. The three accepted initiatives will profit fish and wildlife by means of funding mechanisms that help biodiversity, watershed restoration, local weather resiliency and dealing landscapes that combine financial, social and environmental stewardship practices useful to the setting, landowners and the area people.
Funding for these initiatives comes from the Basic Fund, Funds Act of 2022 and helps the 30×30 Initiative (the purpose to preserve 30 % of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030) and nature-based options.
Funded initiatives:
- A $26 million grant to Level Blue Conservation Science for a cooperative mission with native volunteer educators and college students to implement wildlife habitat restoration on working lands in a number of counties throughout California.
- A $24.73 million grant to Level Blue Conservation Science for a cooperative mission with Nationwide Fish and Wildlife Basis, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Sierra Meadows Partnership to plan, implement and monitor meadow restoration within the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains spanning 23 California counties.
- A $19.41 million grant to the California Affiliation of Useful resource Conservation Districts for a cooperative mission with California Division of Fish and Wildlife, the California Division of Meals and Agriculture, California Division of Conservation, USDA Pure Useful resource Conservation Service and USFWS to increase monarch, pollinator and different wildlife habitat on private and non-private lands and to help landowners within the implementation of carbon farm practices that create habitat and sequester carbon in a number of counties throughout California.
For extra details about the WCB please go to wcb.ca.gov.
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Media Contacts:
John Donnelly, Wildlife Conservation Board, (916) 445-8448
Amanda McDermott, CDFW Communications, (916) 738-9641