Conservation practices are a tool to help build resilience in our ecosystems ability to adapt and mitigate against the worst effects of climate change. By diversifying habitat, capturing carbon, improving water infiltration and soil water carrying capacity, farmers, ranchers, forest landowners, and backyard gardeners can all play a role in improving climate resilience.
Climate technical assistance can help you with:
- Improving soil health
- Improving irrigation systems and methods
- Improving and increasing pollinator and wildlife habitat
For climate technical assistance, please contact:
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Brian Pimentel
Agriculture Program Manager
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Allison Erny
Forestry Project Manager, Registered Professional Forester No. 3081
Placer RCD Climate News
- We’re Hiring a Forestry Project Manager
- What are Working Lands?
- Placer RCD Releases “Rx Fire Field Guide” with CAL FIRE Funding
- Placer RCD Awarded $450,000 by Wildlife Conservation Board to Create Pollinator Habitat and Sequester Carbon
Placer RCD Climate Projects
- ਕੈਲੀਫੋਰਨੀਆ ਦੀਆਂ ਜ਼ਮੀਨਾਂ ‘ਤੇ ਰਿਹਾਇਸ਼ੀ ਬਹਾਲੀ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਜਲਵਾਯੂ ਲਚਕਤਾ Provides financial assistance
- Rx Fire Field Guide
- Doyle Ranch Park Pollinator Hedgerow
- Landowner Technical Assistance Provides financial assistance
- Hillview Farms Pollinator Hedgerow
- Climate Resilience Through Habitat Restoration on California Lands Provides financial assistance
- Placer Prescribed Burn Association (Placer PBA) Provides financial assistance
- CDFA Healthy Soils Program (2021) Provides financial assistance
- Prescribed Burning on Private Lands Provides financial assistance
- Carbon Cycle Institute: Carbon Farming past project
Climate Media
- Landowner Technical Assistance Agreement (LTAA) Flier
- Placer RCD and Auburn Area Recreation and Park District Respond to Wildfire at Atwood Preserve – Press Release
- Recommended Plants for Pollinators & Beneficial Insects for California Sierra Foothills Region (Xerces Society)
- 2021 Healthy Soils Program Presentation
- CDFA Workshop Flyer
- Doyle Ranch Park Pollinator Hedgerow Map
- Hillview Farms Pollinator Hedgerow Planting Map
- Placer RCD Final Report for CCI
- Forestland Steward Issue 65: Lightening the Fuel Load