The Roots Program

Land Use: Cropland and livestock Total Budget: $67,793.02 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to December 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project involves structures for wildlife, noxious weed abatement, and tree/shrub planting. The structures for wildlife include barn owl boxes, raptor perches, songbird boxes, bat boxes, and wood duck boxes. The noxious weeds to be removed are yellow starthistle and dyer’s woad. Trees planted will mostly be native conifers, and shrubs planted will be native deciduous.

Land Use: Cropland and livestock Total Budget: $67,793.02 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to December 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project involves structures for wildlife, noxious weed abatement, and tree/shrub planting. The structures for wildlife include barn owl boxes, raptor perches, songbird boxes, bat boxes, and wood duck boxes. The noxious weeds to be removed are yellow starthistle and dyer’s woad. Trees planted will mostly be native conifers, and shrubs planted will be native deciduous.

Land Use: Livestock Total Budget: $87,251.82 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to December 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project involves hazardous fence removal, structures for wildlife, noxious weed abatement, and tree/shrub planting. The structures for wildlife include barn owl boxes, raptor perches, songbird boxes, bat boxes, and wood duck boxes. The noxious weeds to be removed are yellow starthistle and dyer’s woad. Trees planted will mostly be native conifers, and shrubs planted will be native deciduous. A total of 4,925-ft of dilapidated fence will be removed from a woodland on the east side of the property.

Land Use: Beef cattle ranch Total Budget: $18,946.25 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to Fall 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary:  This project includes installing 42 structures for wildlife. These include small bird boxes, raptor perches, kestrel boxes, bat boxes, barn owl boxes, and a turtle basking structure.

Land Use: Livestock Total Budget: $121,739 Implementation Period: June 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project entails building 31-35 beaver dam analogs and post-assisted log structures in Moffett Creek. These structures will be constructed with on-site materials.

Land Use: livestock, forestry Total Budget: $65,998.50 Implementation Period: May 2024 to Spring 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project consists of a single row native hedgerow planted along nearly 4,000 linear feet of botched sides of a watercourse with exclusion fence to provide grazing management from the remainder of the property used as a sheep pasture. 

Land Use: Cattle ranch with NRCS- Wetland Reserve Easement, public access nature and agricultural reserve Total Budget: $435,000.00 Implementation Period: Fall 2025 to December 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The project will install 40-45 large, in-stream log structures to restore a braided stream for anadromous fish.

Land Use: mixed crop and pasture Total Budget: $82,813.00 Implementation Period: April 2024 to Winter 2026 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project will convert 1 acre pasture to a wetland area with a pond and swales and establish woody and herbaceous native plantings around the pond and swale. The project goal is to provide wildlife habitat with culturally significant species.

Land Use: livestock, forestry Total Budget: $96,315.00 Implementation Period: November 2024 to March 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The goal of the project is to restore native plant species cover, habitat function, and resilience to climate change by restoring an oak woodland from conifer encroachment. The project includes 48 acres of oak woodland enhancement through removal of Douglas fir that are encroaching into the oak woodland.

Land Use: mixed use, livestock, cropland Total Budget: $155,789.91 Implementation Period: July 2024 to May 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project is located on a farm owned and operated by the College of the Redwoods. The project includes a single row woody native hedgerow planted along 650 feet of boundary fence; riparian under-story enhancement/diversification with invasive species removal augmented by woody and herbaceous native plants along a 4 acre riparian corridor; and removal of 1,320 ft of hazardous fence covered with invasive blackberry, as well as 480 ft of smooth wire fencing not designed to exclude sheep. The project will also construct a new 4 ft riparian fencing that will increase size of riparian enhancement area by 0.15 ac, protect new plantings from sheep browse for 3 years and facilitate prescribed grazing long-term to control blackberry and thistle infestations; install songbird and owl nest boxes and raptor perches; and implement pollinator seeding and forb/grass plug planting in 0.2 ac former pasture area. Monitoring of the project will take place in conjunction with faculty and students during spring, summer and fall semesters. Student workers and interns will be doing the bulk of the site prep, implementation, maintenance and monitoring.

Land Use: mixed use, cannabis, food and medicinal farm Total Budget: $46,000.00 Implementation Period: TBD Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The project will enhance 12 acres of white oak woodland by removing conifer trees that have encroached on the oak woodland.

Land Use: School campus Total Budget: $40,269.78 Implementation Period: February 2024 to February 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes establishment of a native plant hedgerow consisting of 130 plants, planting a 0.25 acre native pollinator planting area, and installing 6 songbird boxes, 4 bat roosting and maternity boxes, and 1 raptor perch. Overall, the project will restore native plant species cover and provide habitat for pollinators, migratory birds, small mammals, and amphibians. The project will also authentically engage with the local community by providing students from the community place-based education and opportunities for enhancing the ecological value of the space through hands-on habitat restoration work days and education.

Land Use: mixed use farming, specialty crop production Total Budget: $107,833.00 Implementation Period: April 2024 to May 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project consists of a single row woody native hedgerow planted along 730 feet of boundary fence; invasive species removal using hand tools and small equipment (scotch broom, Himalayan blackberry, cotoneaster, English ivy) in hedgerow area and other areas on the farm (totaling 0.2 acre); and 300 square foot Bioswale construction to filter runoff from the road, which will be vegetated with wetland species including sedges, rushes, and willows. 

Land Use: livestock, forestry, nature preserve Total Budget: $228,766.00 Implementation Period: September 2025 to September 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The project includes replacing one mile of hazardous fence that was burned in the August Complex along a known elk corridor with wildlife friendly fencing, upgrading springs to reduce impacts and make more accessible to wildlife, and planting oak seedlings and protecting existing oak saplings over a 12 acre area.

Land Use: Cropland, Perennial Herb Garden, Livestock, Meadow Total Budget: $115,000 Implementation Period: September 2025 to November 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes approximately 2.3 acres of various types of cultural plantings (native plant hedgerow, cultural plantings, native pollinator plantings) with benefits to pollinators and birds, including nearly an acre of restored wetland.

Land Use: Cropland, livestock, hay, natural, residential, mixed use Total Budget: $109,159.15 Implementation Period: Winter 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The goals for this project are to create habitat connectivity along the western and eastern sides of the property that connect the northern riparian zone to the larger trees and other habitat along the south of the property. This connectivity zone will include a native hedgerow that includes native plants for pollinators and monarch butterflies, and oaks for wildlife. These native plantings would benefit  birds, pollinators, and other wildlife. Additionally, the landowner plans to host the local farm to school program, School of Adoptive Agriculture, and local Grange for education and field trips and to provide local students an opportunity to participate in and learn about the restoration of the native habitat. Currently, the property operates as hay production and cattle grazing in the back 30 acres within a cattle fenced area. The front 10 acres are used for crop cultivation, orchards, chickens, and bees.

Land Use: Cropland, livestock, mixed use, oak woodland restoration Total Budget: $113,626.90 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project aims to increase riparian vegetation buffers, restore riparian and wetland habitat through livestock exclusion fencing and cottonwood revegetation, create cover for birds, insects, and small mammals, and increase diverse pollinator habitat on site through hedgerow/willow plantings. The area is split into several parcels, with cannabis and garden on the eastern side of the property and cattle grazing land/riparian area on the western side of the property.

Land Use: Non-industrial timber management Total Budget: $107,236.78 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to December 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This proposed project will install up to 50 low-tech structures including beaver dam analogues (BDAs) and post-assisted log structures (PALSs) in an incised reach of Upper Baechtel Creek to reactivate the surrounding floodplain, increase instream habitat complexity, manage sediment loads, and provide winter refuge and floodplain foraging opportunities for steelhead.

Land Use: Livestock and mixed use Total Budget: $114,966.65 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project aims to establish a plant pollinator hedgerow on the western parcel, open up stands of oak woodland from Douglas-fir encroachment and plant a new age class of oaks and madrones, and fence out and plant willows in a riparian area on the northwestern side of the property. The project will also provide homeschool lessons and community field days with farmers.

Land Use: livestock grazing Total Budget: $116,131 Implementation Period: TBD Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project aims to perform several wildlife improvements on the landscape. First, removing over 10,000ft of hazardous fence on site where entanglements of deer, elk, and other wildlife have been recorded. Second, an irrigated hedgerow planting will be implemented to provide diverse food and cover resources for wildlife populations in pasturelands adjacent to a watercourse. Lastly, planting and protecting new and existing blue oak and valley oak seedlings in existing oak woodlands to establish a new age class for the continuation of that ecosystem.

Land Use: Mixed use Total Budget: $136,801.70 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to Winter 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The core of the project will be the removal of approximately 4.6 miles of wildlife-impenetrable fences in an area designated in California Fish and Wildlife mapping efforts as an "Irreplaceable and Existing Corridor." Previous landowners attempted to raise pastured pigs on the property, leaving a legacy of intensely impassable fencing. The current grazing leaseholder is an early adopter of e-fencing technology and is passionate about de-fencing the West. Observations of deer and owl entrapments have been recorded on site. The current land use is rangeland for cattle.

Land Use: Mixed use Total Budget: $49,400 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to Winter 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project was selected because of the potential to restore oak woodland for wildlife access, and to diversify the understory with native plants. The current conditions of the site are managed for mixed use of a small orchard/crop production and active forestry management. There has been an effort to improve oak and meadow habitat over the past 5 years but given the legacy of fir encroachment, there is more work to be done. The property is comprised of mixed oak and conifer forest with patches of open meadow habitat.

Land Use: winter cattle grazing Total Budget: $59,851.75 Implementation Period: October 2024 to December 2026 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes removal of 8,905 linear feet of hazardous fence, 57.5 acres of blue oak woodland enhancement, construction of 38 wildlife brush piles, and installation of 20 nesting bird boxes. Overall the project will remove wildlife barriers throughout the landscape, improve oak woodland health and habitat value, and provide additional habitat features that are beneficial to wildlife.

Land Use: Protected open space for habitat and educational use Total Budget: $176,459.00 Implementation Period: March 2024 to December 2026 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes 4.75 acres of oak woodland enhancement through planting of 50 acorn seed baskets; installing 12 wildlife brush piles, 10 wood duck boxes, and 3 small nesting bird boxes; planting a 0.5 acre native pollinator planting area, and removal of invasive riparian species align 1,150 linear feet (0.8 acre) of stream channel and planting 300 riparian woody places within the 0.8 acre riparian corridor. This project is a partnership with the landowner, the Western Shasta Regional Conservation District, and the California Conservation Corps. Overall, the project will improve the oak woodland plant community and establish conditions to encourage natural oak regeneration; restore native plant species cover, habitat function, and resilience to climate change throughout the project area; and engage and educate local students and young professionals in ecological restoration and management.

Land Use: virgin land Total Budget: $47,187.95 Implementation Period: April 2024 to December 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project’s primary goals are to enhance oak woodland habitat, increase native grasses and grass functional groups, and increase pollinator foraging resources. The project consists of 1) 30 acorn seed baskets across 1 acre of blue oak woodland to increase oak regeneration, 2) native grass plug planting across 0.1 acres to increase herbaceous structural diversity and overwintering pollinator habitat, and 3) native wildflower seeding across 0.12 acres to increase native pollinator foraging resources.

Land Use: range, livestock Total Budget: $125,120 Implementation Period: Fall 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project consists of jumpstarting hydrologic processes in an incised drainage by installing beaver dam analogues. It also includes some repair of smaller head cuts with hand-built rock rundowns to prevent further incision. In conjunction with the hydrologic restoration, riparian trees and shrubs will be planted to enhance the riparian and meadow habitat.

Land Use: Livestock and wildlife habitat Total Budget: $66,231.75 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project includes planting 120 large riparian trees (cottonwood, ash) and shrubs (i.e., currant, gooseberry, elderberry, willow) across three degraded riparian areas within a large alluvial meadow complex. The planted areas will be fenced in by a permanent, wildlife friendly barbed wire fence.

Land Use: wildlife support, sustained forestry, livestock graving, habitat enhancement, wetland easements Total Budget:  $72,844.37 Implementation Period: June 2024 to December 2024 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: This project is in partnership with NRCS’s Sage Grouse Initiative. The project consists of improving spring areas for wildlife and installing a livestock watering system to distribute livestock grazing impacts away from critical Sage Grouse brood rearing habitat in other meadow and spring areas on the property.

Land Use: Cropland and Livestock Total Budget: $374,963 Implementation Period: June 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: pending Project Summary: The project will stabilize sheer banks along approximately 7,500 feet of the Susan River, allowing for the curtailment of erosion and the establishment of a stable inset floodplain where desirable riparian vegetation can establish. This vegetation will help to create a more vibrant and complex riparian habitat, where none currently exists. The shallow water habitat component will pay for the construction of approximately 7,120 feet of buried irrigation mainline. This 7,120 feet is part of a larger project, of approximately 25,000 feet. The efficiency gained by converting from open dirt ditches to buried PVC mainline will allow the landowner to mostly eliminate water loss during conveyance to the farm fields. This should result in a longer irrigation season, which benefits numerous species that utilize shallow water and green,growing fields for feeding and cover.

Land Use: livestock Total Budget:  $35,927.15 Implementation Period: June 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project will consist of installing 6,600 feet of cross fencing and grass/forage seeding on approximately 60 acres of degraded rangeland. Point Blue and the landowner will develop a grazing plan for the entire property (approximately 87 acres grazing lands) that should facilitate improvement in range conditions by managing the timing and intensity of grazing throughout the year, and by targeting specific invasives (perennial pepperweed, cheatgrass) in order to improve the herbaceous community. The goal is to improve habitat structure and the availability of forage and pollen resources. 

Land Use: pasture, rangeland, cropland Total Budget:  $114,016.75 Implementation Period: Fall 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The project includes installation of beaver dam analogs (BDAs) tol influence/restore approximately 9.5 acres immediately adjacent to an existing stream. The project will also realign existing fence to increase the riparian management area adjacent to the BDAs installment. Lastly, the project will realign another fence that will increase 9.9 acres of protected riparian area adjacent to another stream corridor on the property.   

Land Use: Mixed use Total Budget: $46,462.30 Implementation Period: April 2024 to March 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes removal of 5,500 linear feet of hazardous fence and replacement with wildlife-friendly fencing. The project also includes installation of 5,000 linear feet of wildlife-friendly fencing around spring and pond habitat to allow for livestock grazing management. Overall, the project will remove fence that is hazardous to wildlife and enhance riparian and wet meadow habitat through livestock grazing management.

Land Use: livestock Total Budget: $53,671.65 Implementation Period: September 2024 to December 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project will replace dilapidated non-wildlife friendly riparian fence with a new wildlife-friendly fence to control livestock access and timing into riparian field. The project will also enhance an upland area with blue oak acorn planting and wildlife brush piles. Lastly, the project will  improve plant species and functional diversity with a native perennial grass seeding on a upland open terrace and improve pollinator foraging resources, including Crotch’s Bumblebee, and annual and perennial forb diversity with a native wildflower seeding. 

Land Use: livestock Total Budget: $300,000 Implementation Period: April 2024 to TBD Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes removal of hazardous fence, installing wildlife friendly fencing around two springs, invasive species removal and native grass plantings within/adjacent to the springs, oak plantings, and installing of water storage tanks and water troughs and connector pipes to provide off stream livestock water.

Land Use: livestock Total Budget: $115,000 Implementation Period: November 2024 to TBD Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The hazardous fences in this project are located in a CDFW designated critical winter migration area for deer. The fences are currently 4-foot-tall woven wire topped with 2 strands of barbed wire. This type of fence causes entrapment and entanglement issues and also prevents the movement of fawns. The project includes removal of the hazardous fence and replacement with a wildlife-friendly fence.

Land Use: cattle grazing Total Budget: $53,155.30 Implementation Period: April 2024 to TBD Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project will install riparian fence to keep cattle out of the creek (the property has already installed offsite water) and plant 30 riparian trees (install deer protection cages and mulch around each one). The project will also build 5 brush piles paired with blue oak acorn planting and install 3 American kestrel nest boxes.

Land Use: Livestock Total Budget: $94,300 Implementation Period: December 2023 to June 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project will collect and plant 160 blue oak acorns, plant milkweed seeds for monarch butterfly plantings, restore a 6.3-acre riparian corridor using native pollinator plants, and install nest boxes throughout the property to provide habitat for birds. The project will also engage with the local community by hosting education work days with the Center for Land Based Learning (CLBL) Students Landowner Education and Watershed Stewardship (SLEWS) program and Oroville High School teachers and students. Overall, the project will benefit wildlife and pollinators, including monarch butterflies, by providing important oak woodland and riparian habitat while also providing educational opportunities to the local community.

Land Use: cropland Total Budget: $47,254.65 Implementation Period: April 2024 to December 2024 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes installation of a 1,865 foot perimeter hedgerow, installation of a 450 foot internal hedgerow, and installation of 1 barn owl box, 4 bee boxes, and 4 songbird boxes throughout the hedgerows. Overall the project will install native plants around an urban farm edge comprised of diverse trees, shrubs, and forbs to provide habitat for wildlife and pollinators.

Land Use: native grasses livestock grazing Total Budget: $58,650.00 Implementation Period: October 2024 to April 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary:  The project will install two sections of riparian fence that connect into existing perimeter and cross fencing to manage livestock access to riparian corridors. The new riparian fences will create riparian pastures that will then be flash grazed two to three times a year during the growing season to manage annual grasses, but mostly rested to allow desirable vegetation to rebound, with a focus on blue oak regeneration, and prevent wildlife livestock conflicts. Long term management will include using electric cross fencing (recently funded by a CDFA grant) and a high intensity, short duration, long rest grazing strategy to further subdivide and manage the riparian pastures with the goal of improving plant diversity and wildlife habitat.

Land Use: agricultural, livestock Total Budget: $77,053.45 Implementation Period: March 2024 to April 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary:  The project is located on a 40 acre diversified farm (sheep, pigs, ducks, mushrooms, herb garden) that was burned in the 2018 Camp Fire. The project includes 7 acres of oak woodland enhancement through post fire brush and debris removal and replanting of acorns, riparian plantings, and native grasses. The project also incorporates a native plant hedgerow to support pollinators and nest boxes for birds, bees, and bats.

Land Use: Non-industrial timberland and pasture Total Budget: $101,109.00 Implementation Period: Fall 2025 to December 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project consists of in-stream restoration of Iron Horse Creek main channel by installing multiple cross vane structures to reduce near-bank stress, multiple rock riffles at inset floodplain elevation, and stake jute fabric or sod along eroding streambanks. The dry meadow restoration will include removing bull thistle, removing former equestrian corrals and dilapidated fence and spreading native seed mix of grass and herbaceous vegetation species. Wet meadow enhancement includes removing encroaching conifer and sagebrush, planting and water sedges, rushes, and riparian hardwoods. In the unnamed tributary, in-stream restoration will include placing coir logs in head cuts and installing multiple BDA structures. In the meadow-upland transition, the project will reduce conifer densities and plant and water riparian hardwoods (cottonwood, aspen, alder, etc.)

Land Use: Mixed use, CDFW wildlife habitat area Total Budget: $72,180.00 Implementation Period: Winter 2024 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project is to improve wildlife passage in a migration corridor for the Loyalton Deer Herd through the Hallelujah Junction State Wildlife Area. The project area is located very close to development from the sprawling Reno area, and is key to passage for deer through this area. This project includes removing hazardous fence that can cause wildlife entanglement, as well as retrofitting sheep wire fencing to become a four strand fence with appropriate height and wire spacing for deer to jump over and pronghorn antelope to move under. This should also improve passage for other wildlife in the area.

Land Use: livestock, forestry, cropland, orchard Total Budget: $85,905.00 Implementation Period: June 2024 to December 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes 9.5 acres of oak woodland enhancement, planting a 400 foot native plant hedgerow, removal of 1,300 feet of hazardous fence, and installation of 8 wildlife boxes and 2 wildlife cameras. Overall the project will improve oak woodland habitat through increasing plant structure and composition diversity and removing invasive species and improve pollinator and birds species foraging and nesting locations.

Land Use: mixed use, walking trails, cultural education, forestry Total Budget: $180,521.25 Implementation Period: Winter 2025 to December 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The project will restore a mixed conifer oak forest restoration through removal of woody vegetation in overstocked areas of the forest and replanting the understory with native species. The property is used for public access and the project also includes installing bear proof trash cans along a publicly used hiking trail. The project includes tribal engagement and supports intergenerational knowledge exchange regarding wildlife, habitat quality / observations, and cultural stewardship.

Land Use: working lands Total Budget: $266,295.15 Implementation Period: September 2024 to Spring 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project involves diverse habitat enhancement projects across three sites. At one site, the intent is to improve aquatic / riparian habitat at dilapidated ponds on land owned by the school district. A second site is currently continuously grazed due to limited infrastructure (fencing and water), but with temporary portable fencing, grazing will be managed to support wildlife goals. A hedgerow and removal of livestock from riparian areas seasonally are components of this project. The third project is planting a hedgerow adjacent to an organic farm operated by a local non-profit organization.

Land Use: multi-species grazing, wildlife Total Budget: $113,735 Implementation Period: December 2024 to December 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The intent of the project is to pursue diverse pathways to maximize wildlife benefits as quickly as possible. Species of particular interest include: native pollinators, monarchs, upland birds (quail, turkeys, dove), deer, and migratory birds. The project includes construction of 15 wildlife brush piles; removal of invasive species over 15 acres using targeting grazing over a 2 year period; installing a 25-acre native pollinator planting area; installing 10 nest boxes/raptor perches; planting acorns at 10 planting locations; and planting a 1,500 foot native plant hedgerow.

Land Use: Livestock production Total Budget: $274,121 Implementation Period: December 2024 to December 2026 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: This project aims to restore approximately 6.5 acres of land by planting native species, removing nonnative species, and maintaining the site to ensure the survival and growth of the newly planted vegetation. The project will span two years, with key activities including site preparation, planting events, maintenance, and ongoing coordination with project partners.

Land Use: Wakamatsu Farm: Cropland, livestock grazing, outdoor education, wildlife habitat; Elliot Pond: wildlife habitat Total Budget: $233,296.86 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to Fall 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project will improve habitat for wildlife at two preserves through a mixture of grazing infrastructure (primarily riparian exclusion fencing and alternative watering system installations) and installation of native plants into a cultural garden.

Land Use: mixed use, preserve, public access, cattle grazing Total Budget: $206,310.00 Implementation Period: October 2024 to December 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project aims to utilize an existing well to install water storage and conveyance infrastructure in the eastern half of an existing preserve to increase the capacity for tree plantings and other habitat restorations within the preserve, which is currently not feasible due to high costs of trucking in water. The goal of the additional plantings is to improve habitat for native pollinators. The project will also install additional exclusionary fencing to develop a riparian corridor that will connect an existing pond to the existing oak woodland. This effort will also provide a perennial water source to 3,000 acres within the preserve via three troughs across spread three separate fields, which will increase the potential duration and improve management of annual cattle grazing. By expanding water availability through these fields they can be more adaptively grazed to supports both range and habitat health. This water source will also support local wildlife by directly providing water in an area that is significantly lacking during the summer and early fall. 

Land Use: Native grass seed and alfalfa production and livestock grazing Total Budget: $62,065 Implementation Period: November 2024 to April 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: This project will implement and maintain two new native plant hedgerows on a native grass seed and alfalfa production farm. Additionally, this project will install browse-protective caging to realize the completion of a 1.4 mile-long tree and shrub riparian corridor and an 5-acre valley oak savannah on a ranch adjacent to this farm. Together, these projects extend corridors of wildlife habitat for vertebrates and beneficial arthropods through annual grassland at the edge of the foothills and into intensively-managed cropland in the Sacramento Valley floor.

Land Use: Grazing, apiary, hunting Total Budget: $19,541.95 Implementation Period: Winter 2025 to Spring 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project will install willow plantings protected by electric fencing to provide the area with pollinator and ungulate forage and bird and aquatic organism cover. Additionally, this project will help procure bird (songbird, owl, osprey) and bat nesting/roosting structures.

Land Use: nursery/mixed use Total Budget: $30,382.70 Implementation Period: October 2024 to December 2024 Implementation Status: Complete Project Summary: The project will install a 600-ft native plant hedgerow around the nursery provide habitat for pollinators and wildlife.

Land Use: Vegetable farming, Livestock, Poultry ranching Total Budget: $316,676.00 Implementation Period: January 2024 to April 2024 Implementation Status: Complete Project Summary: The project includes the establishment of approximately 390 plants consisting of native grasses, sedges, and woody vegetation along approximately 1,200 feet of channel length. The goal of the project is to increase riparian habitat, sequester carbon, reduce erosion, and engage the local community in conservation practices and restoration science. The project area can also act as a wildlife corridor between upland habitats and the adjacent wetlands.

Land Use: regional park, nature preserve Total Budget: $426,475.00 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to November 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The primary project goal is to enhance the dispersal habitat for California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) and other wetland dependent species.  Additional project goals include enhancing the upper watershed function of Colgan Creek and Todd Creek, reducing sediment pollution and flooding in the City of Santa Rosa and Laguna de Santa Rosa, managing vegetation to reduce fire risk to the City of Santa Rosa, and providing educational and recreational opportunities to diverse residents of Sonoma County. 

Land Use: Livestock, Cropland Total Budget: $458,293.00 Implementation Period: December 2023 to April 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes the establishment of approximately 800 plants consisting of native grasses, sedges, woody vegetation along approximately 3,000 feet of channel length. The project will be implemented by Point Blue’s STRAW program, which will engage with students and teachers from local Petaluma schools to install the plantings. The goal of the project is to increase riparian habitat, sequester carbon, reduce erosion, and engage the local community in conservation practices and restoration science.

Land Use: grazing, livestock farm Total Budget: $274,092 Implementation Period: January 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The goals of this project are to increase habitat diversity, sequester carbon, control erosion, provide local hedgerow and silvopasture models, and engage the local community in conservation practices and restoration science. The project would include the establishment of native vegetation along approximately 1,424 feet of the property perimeter and within a 500 by 60-foot swale. The project proponents envision a hedgerow that helps to screen the ranch from the road and neighbors with plants of varying heights and structure. In addition, the internal drainage swale will be treated as a silvopasture area with additional erosion-control native plantings. A short-term revegetation goal (three to five years) is typically to have 75% survival of the woody species plantings. The long-term revegetation goal is to have 75% of the planting areas in a variety of native plant cover. Project will include ~420 students and their chaperones.

Land Use: Demonstration farm and community recreational and education facility Total Budget: $159,558 Implementation Period: Winter 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The project would include the establishment native pollinator hedgerow planting and native grass buffer strips. Through planting native California plants on the site, the goal is to benefit wildlife by enhancing their habitat and creating an area for pollinators. Other goals include increasing habitat diversity, sequestering carbon, controlling erosion, and engaging the local community in conservation practices and restoration science.

Land Use: Vegetable crops Total Budget: $163,880 Implementation Period:Winter 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The goals of this project are to increase habitat diversity, sequester carbon, control erosion, provide local hedgerow models, and engage the local community in conservation practices and restoration science. The project would include the establishment of native vegetation along approximately 530 linear feet of the farm perimeter and includes both upland and seasonally wet habitats. A short-term revegetation goal (three to five years) is typically to have 75% survival of the woody species plantings. The long-term revegetation goal is to have 75% of the planting areas in a variety of native plant cover.

Land Use: Livestock, Small Food-forest/Orchard Total Budget: $40,894 Implementation Period: November 2024 to April 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project is on a 3.5 acre property where the landowner grazes sheep and has a food forest with over 50 fruit trees. The property is currently dominated by introduced annual grasses. The goal of this project is to increase habitat for birds and pollinators and restore the oak savanna plant community that historically would have been on the property.

Land Use: Livestock/rangeland Total Budget: $73,713.11 Implementation Period: Winter 2025 to Winter 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project will plant native shrubs, forbs, grasses, and trees in two upland areas on the property. The establishment of native vegetation will add species and structural diversity in the area which will increase food and shelter for birds, insects, and mammals that frequent the area. Activities will include planting native plants, adding mulch around plants, installing fences to protect plants while they become established, installing irrigation for native plantings, removing/controlling invasive plant species using manual methods (hand pulling, hand tools), and seeding native grasses. In addition to native plant establishment, other project activities will include installing bird nest boxes, building habitat brush piles, leading educational programs, and conducting plant establishment monitoring, pollinator, and photo monitoring of the habitat restoration site.

Land Use: livestock grazing Total Budget: $77,506.50 Implementation Period: November 2024 to March 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: This project will plant 320 native shrubs, forbs, and trees in two upland areas on the property. The establishment of native vegetation will add diversity in the species and structure of the plants in the area which will increase food and shelter for birds, insects, and mammals that frequent the area. Activities will include planting native plants, adding mulch around plants, installing temporary fences and caging to protect plants while they become established, installing irrigation for native plantings, removing/controlling invasive plant species using manual methods (hand pulling, hand tools), and conducting plant establishment monitoring and photo monitoring of the habitat restoration site.

Land Use: School campus Total Budget: $132,758 Implementation Period: January 2024 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The project is located on a school campus and includes implementation of a hedgerow and pollinator planting, and Monarch butterfly planting installation with approximately 300 students and community volunteers.

Land Use: beekeeping and bee forage farm; mead production facility Total Budget: $366,277.77 Implementation Period: October 2024 to December 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes removal of invasive plant species, specifically poison hemlock; planting of a 720-ft native plant hedgerow, and installing 1.5 acres of pollinator plantings that will transition from the upland zone to the riparian zone adjacent to the existing creek on the property.

Land Use: school Total Budget: $376,423.75 Implementation Period: September 2024 to TBD Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The primary mission of the project is to create wildlife and insect habitat using low/no maintenance native plants and trees within a space that would typically be designed using maintenance intensive non-native ornamental plantings. The project will install native trees and shrubs to provide habitat for wildlife and pollinators and provide an educational space for students within an area previously landscaped with non-native species.

Land Use: School campus Total Budget: $113,492 Implementation Period: January 2024 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The project is located on a school campus and includes implementation of a hedgerow and pollinator planting, and Monarch butterfly planting installation with approximately 300 students and community volunteers.

Land Use: School campus Total Budget: $170,303 Implementation Period: Winter 2025 to December 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project will restore native plant species cover, habitat function and resilience to climate change throughout the project area through the removal of key invasive species cover (Rubus armeniacus, Vinca major) and installation of native understory species.  In addition, this project will authentically engage the local community by providing students from the school site with place-based education and opportunities for enhancing the ecological health of their campus through hands-on habitat restoration work days.

Land Use: Cropland Total Budget: $107,731.30 Implementation Period: December 2024 to Fall 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project is working with the Solano Resource Conservation District to install hedgerows, a native plant garden, and pollinator meadow to support pollinators and other wildlife. The hedgerows will be prepped and planted in part through volunteer workdays. These workdays will include workshops addressing topics such as tending and harvesting native plants, along with how and what to plant in home gardens to support Monarchs and other pollinators.

Land Use: Mixed use Total Budget: $28,384.88 Implementation Period: Winter 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project will plant 300 feet of native plant hedgerow, ~60 plants and enhance wildlife habitat with the construction of browsing prevention cages to enhance natural regeneration in a post fire riparian area.

Land Use: Cropland, organic almond orchard Total Budget: $58,362.58 Implementation Period: February 2025 to Fall 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project is on a 42-acre organic almond orchard near the Putah Creek watershed. This project will plant 5,856 feet of native plant hedgerow and install three song bird and Wood duck nest boxes.

Land Use: Cropland Total Budget: $149,592 Implementation Period: November 2024 to December 2024 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: This project is located on an organic walnut orchard near Winters, CA. The site has been in production agriculture for decades. The project would install approximately 1800 feet of hedgerow (approx. 400 plants), 160 native plants near an existing pond as well as owl and songbird boxes near the pond. The objectives of the project are to improve habitat for pollinators and other beneficial wildlife.

Land Use: Unused lot Total Budget: $99,956.85 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project aims to establish a neighborhood native plant garden that demonstrates Native American land restoration methods and ecological practices. This garden will serve as an educational hub and a cultural resource for the local community.

Land Use: vineyard, homesites, business office Total Budget: $14,817.75 Implementation Period: October 2024 to May 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project will enhance riparian wildlife habitats and improve water quality along an existing slough that is a highly developed tributary of the Mokelumne River north of Lodi. Specifically, the project will removal 2,000 sq. ft. of invasive species (annual grasses and weedy plants) and replant the area with native pollinator plantings; install 105 riparian trees and shrubs within a 2 acre area along the slough; and install 1 barn owl box and 4 song bird boxes. 

Land Use: Non-industrial timberlands Total Budget: $21,953 Implementation Period: January 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: This project is a small scale (1 acre) oak regeneration project. Project components include oak planting and caging, installation of pollinator plants in three pollinator patches, and installation of native grass plugs.

Land Use: unimproved land, burned over recent forest fires Total Budget: $118,314 Implementation Period: TBD Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project is on two properties in Alpine County in non-industrial forestland that have burned at least once in the last 10 years. Most of the project area (and surrounding landscape) has converted to shrub dominated habitat. The goal of this project is two-fold, to increase diversity of habitats by planting native trees which have difficulty establishing in a shrub dominated landscape on their own, and to increase resiliency of the habitat diversity to future fires by breaking up fuel structure (through the site preparation for tree planting areas). This project will be innovative in that it will not involve the use of herbicides but manual labor will be used to maintain tree plantings in the scope of this project and beyond. Tree establishment will be planned to improve wildlife habitat and not for the production of timber, planning for future climate scenarios when less trees may be expected on the landscape and tree establishment sites may be dependent on north facing slopes or favorable soil conditions.

Land Use: Livestock grazing Total Budget: $97,879 Implementation Period: Fall 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This is a 0.5-acre riparian restoration project on a blue line creek in Tuolumne County. Project will include removal of invasive Himalayan blackberries from riparian area and follow up plantings with a variety of native plants.

Land Use: native, cropland, livestock Total Budget: $12,259 Implementation Period: November 2024 to Spring 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: Project includes 0.5 acres of young valley oak thinning to support growth of some oaks to maturity and wildlife brush pile establishment and removal of hazardous barb wire fence along 5,000 ft of the creek.

Land Use: working farm Total Budget: $150,968.39 Implementation Period: November 2024 to Spring 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: Project site is 1.6 miles of riparian restoration on privately owned cropland adjacent to the Pick-Anderson Bypass of the San Joaquin River in what is called "the Grasslands", a mosaic of wetlands and agricultural lands. Project is divided into two areas: Zone 2 & Zone 4. Zone 2 involves 3,640 ft of hedgerow installation using native plants along with installation of wildlife structures such as brush piles and nest boxes. Zone 4 includes 3.6 acres of native plant seeding using a seed drill in addition to  4,900 ft hedgerow and 20 wildlife structures (bluebird boxes, owl boxes, bat boxes) and 4 wildlife brush piles. 

Land Use: mixed use: livestock, research, education, public service, stewardship, conservation Total Budget: $207,000.00 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to December 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project seeks to accomplish the following goals and objectives:  1) repair and restore more natural hydrologic conditions in watersheds cutoff from natural flows due to constructed levees to support the restoration and recovery of several special status species at up to three stock ponds, 2) decrease perennial hydroperiods of ponds to levels more suitable for California Tiger Salamander (CTS) breeding and less suitable for non-native species, such as western mosquito fish and American bullfrog via pond drainage. The project will install gate values at three pond locations to improve breeding habitat for CTS. The disturbed areas will be revegetated with native grass plantings. 

Land Use: Livestock, Monarch habitat, Ecosystem services Total Budget: $21,505 Implementation Period: November 2024 to February 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project involves installing two wildlife guzzler enhancements on the property to provide a reliable source of water for wildlife. The project will also install 520 linear feet of wildlife-friendly fencing around the guzzlers. The project will benefit wildlife by creating a reliable water source for wildlife that use the property.

Land Use: Forestry, Rangeland, Wildlife Total Budget: $359,309.13 Implementation Period: August 2024 to May 2026 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project involves riparian restoration and creates habitat for wildlife while also cultivating culturally significant plants. The project includes removal of 4.5 acres of invasive species, establishment of 4.5 acres of native plants including 600 woody plants, plugs for forbs and willow staking, and installation of protective fencing around the planting area.

Land Use: forestry, rangeland, wildlife Total Budget: $396,509.06 Implementation Period: May 2024 to December 2024 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project involves oak woodland and riparian habitat restoration on 226 acre preserve through: 1)removal of invasive plants (primarily Himalayan blackberry, rose and black locust) on 3 acres with targeted goat grazing, mechanical cutting, and cut material pile burning; 2) planting on 4 acres of native pollinator plant species based on suitable habitat requirements and guidance by indigenous partners; and  3) removal of 250 feet of hazardous cross fencing and repair/replacement of 2,427 feet of field fencing to protect restoration area plantings from livestock grazing. 

Land Use: Livestock grazing Total Budget: $67,652 Implementation Period: January 2025 to April 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: This project will entail fencing in a recently documented population of Mariposa Lupine (Lupinus citrinus var. deflexus) to protect it from further degradation by feral pigs and to allow for controlled, rather than continuous, grazing by cattle.

Land Use: cropland; diversified organic vegetables Total Budget: $475,001 Implementation Period: June 2024 to Spring 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes installation of two hedgerows and riparian habitat, the landowner's goals are to stabilize the adjacent streambank, increase predation of insect and rodent pests by native raptors, songbirds, and beneficial insects, and improve pollinator habitat.

Land Use: organic olive orchard Total Budget: $195,940 Implementation Period: April 2024 to December 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project will restore native plant species to provide habitat for pollinators by installing a 140 linear ft hedgerow and 0.78 acre pollinator planting area. The project partners with the San Benito RCD, which is providing a cost-share.

Land Use: annual and perennial row crops, livestock, orchard, mixed use Total Budget: $47,050.00 Implementation Period: February 2024 to April 2024 Implementation Status: Complete Project Summary: The project includes planting of two pollinator hedgerows totaling 400 feet. Overall the project will restore native plant species to provide habitat for pollinators.

Land Use: Education, Rangeland, Conservation Total Budget: $92,166 Implementation Period: Winter 2025 to November 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: Circle J-Norris Ranch is a 620-acre ranch in the foothills of the Southern Sierra Nevada owned and operated by the Tulare County Office of Education with a conservation easement that Sequoia Riverlands Trust manages for education, wildlife habitat, and cattle grazing. It is actively grazed by cattle. Circle J hosts around 3,000 students a year and another 1,500 adults coming for field trips as well as public events. The project’s goal will be to establish and maintain native trees and plants to provide wildlife habitat, sequester carbon, and improve rangeland health. Wildlife structures will be installed to improve the habitat for a wide variety of birds, insects, turtles and provide nesting sites to mitigate the effects of dead oak removal on Circle J and neighboring ranches.

Land Use: Livestock, public access/recreation, wildlife habitat Total Budget: $144,317.81 Implementation Period: Winter 2025 to Winter 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: The Homer Ranch Avian Habitat Enhancement Project aims to enhance avian habitat at Homer Ranch Preserve by manually removing invasive species such as Common fig (Ficus carica) and replacing them with planted and protected natural regenerating native riparian species such as willows, cottonwoods, mulefat and increase the health of the rare sycamore alluvial habitat. Project will create wildlife brush piles and plant upland twining shrub species found in the area such as Lonicera interrupta, Marah horrida, and Clematis iasiantha to enhance the woody material and increase shrub and tree recruitment by creating habitat for scrub jays.

Land Use: Mixed use Total Budget: $162,500.75 Implementation Period: Winter 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project is on an active 230-acre cattle ranch that prioritizes environmental stewardship adjacent to the Sequoia National Forest. The health and well-being of wildlife is a priority for the landowner, and this project will increase native plant habitats and address significant erosion issues that have degraded water quality and reduced water levels in pond and stream, negatively impacting riparian and upland areas of the ranch.

Land Use: Alkali Scrub habitat restoration project Total Budget: $111,527 Implementation Period: TBD Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: Capinero Creek Restoration is an alkali scrub habitat restoration project, focused on removing irrigated farmland from production and returning the 465-acres to its natural native state to encouraging and extending habitat use from the adjoining Pixley Wildlife Refuge. Current site work includes wildlife friendly fencing that will allow for grazing, and the adaptation/installation of solar well pump and livestock troughs. The installation of native plants is broken out in three phases. Phase one of 160 acres will include three test plots on 80 acres seeded with different seed mixes and transplants made up of fifteen species, each test plot will receive varying water applications to aid in establishment, with the goal being to identify the seed mix, transplant and watering method that produces the most success at the lowest level of cost. Overall goals of the project include 20-30% native grass and forb cover, and 15-20% native shrub cover along with increasing habitat usage of the kangaroo rat, blunt-nosed leopard lizard and San Joaquin kit fox. Roots funding will aid in the design and installation of phase one materials and labor cost.

Land Use: Livestock, public open space Total Budget: $251,996.00 Implementation Period: October 2024 to December 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes design and installation of 30 beaver dam analogs (BDAs) along 3,150 feet of stream channel, planting 260 riparian plants within the 5.7-acre riparian corridor, and restoration of approximately 10 acres of grassland. Overall, the project will restore a permanently conserved working lands property utilizing process-based BDAs, upland tree planting, and grassland restoration to provide habitat for wildlife and fish, reconnect tribal restoration and stewardship with ancestral lands, and build local partnerships and community engagement to grow local technical capacity.

Land Use: livestock, vineyard and orchard and is also an active demonstration hub for regenerative land stewardship, ecological monitoring and research, education, training, and enterprise development Total Budget: $498,260.80 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to December 2026 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project will focus on enhancing wildlife habitat through increasing the water, food and shelter available for wildlife. The project will demonstrate and communicate how restoration activities can benefit wildlife in rangeland environments. The objectives of this project will be achieved through keyline pond construction, keyline pasture seeding, tree and shrub establishment, riparian buffer planting with rock structures for erosion control, and outreach and education.

Land Use: cropland and forest land Total Budget: $15,985.00 Implementation Period: Spring 2025 to December 2025 Implementation Status: Pending Project Summary: This project will create a wildlife habitat planting to provide habitat for native pollinators and beneficial insects while engaging community members and student volunteers from LAUSD. The project is located on a farm that specializes in growing microgreens, mushrooms, and heritage row crops. The non-cropped areas of the farm are mostly chaparral dominated by California Buckwheat, and the highest elevation of the property transitions into conifer forest. The wildlife habitat planting will include locally appropriate native shrubs, wildflowers, and bunch grasses to support a variety of invertebrate species and other wildlife.

Land Use: cropland Total Budget: $19,382.01 Implementation Period: October 2024 to Spring 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: The project includes planting a 2,500 foot native plant hedgerow. Overall the project will restore native plant species to provide habitat for pollinators.

Land Use: urban farm/cropland Total Budget: $15,145 Implementation Period: June 2024 to December 2025 Implementation Status: In progress Project Summary: This project will provide habitat for pollinators and wildlife by replacing invasive plants with native flora. This project will also create artificial wildlife roosting and nesting habitat. Additional benefits of the native planting are improved soil heath and crop pollination services.