Latest Coastal Conservancy News
The State Coastal Conservancy, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), is pleased to issue a call for proposals focused on the Bay Area’s Priority Conservation Areas (PCA) designated under Plan Bay Area 2040. Information on the program is available at: https://abag.ca.gov/priority/conservation/index.html, and the grant guidelines are here: https://abag.ca.gov/priority/conservation/pdfs/2019_PCA_Guidelines.pdf […]
Coastal Conservancy Awards of $18.5 million in Grants for Coastal Protection and Restoration Morro Bay – This week, the Board of the California State Coastal Conservancy awarded $3.8 million for 12 projects in the Conservancy’s Climate Ready grant program, which supports projects to increase the resilience of coastal resources and communities to the impacts of […]
Douglas Bosco (Public Member), Chair Sara Ramirez Giroux (Public Member) Ann Notthoff (Public Member) John Laird, Secretary for Natural Resources; Bryan Cash (Designated) Dayna Bochco, Coastal Commission Chair; Susan Hansch (Designated) Michael Cohen, Director, Department of Finance; Karen Finn (Designated) Senate Representatives Benjamin Allen (District 26) Anthony Cannella (District 12) Jerry Hill (District 13) Assembly […]
Chula Vista – Today (10/18/18), the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project released its new Regional Strategy 2018, a science-based guide for the long-term restoration and expansion of Southern California’s coastal wetlands. The Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project (WRP), a consortium of federal and state agencies, has been collaborating on wetlands preservation and restoration from Santa Barbara to […]
The slides and recording from the October 10, 2018 webinar on the USACE Continuing Authorities Program can be found below: Slides: CAP Overview_CA Coastal Conservancy Oct 2018_Final Recording can be found here.
Based on a chapter in Dr. Jefferson’s forthcoming book with the working title Leisure’s Race, Power and Place in Los Angeles and California Dreams in the Jim Crow Era to be published by the University of Nebraska Press, in this presentation she will briefly discuss the history and public memory of the African American experience […]
September 10, 2018 – Last week, the Board of the State Coastal Conservancy approved 17 grants totaling over $17.5 million for restoration, protection and public access projects along the California coast. Notably, among those was an authorization of $9.75 million to the Wildlands Conservancy for the acquisition of approximately 1,390 acres along the Santa Margarita River, […]
200 Reef Structures will become habitat for native Olympia Oysters and Pacific Herring September 7, 2018 – This week, 200 oyster reef elements were placed at 4-acre submerged site at the former Red Rocks Warehouse at Point San Pablo in the City of Richmond to create a living shoreline. The State Coastal Conservancy is […]
Meeting Notice Douglas Bosco (Public Member), Chair Sara Ramirez Giroux (Public Member) Ann Notthoff (Public Member) John Laird, Secretary for Natural Resources; Bryan Cash (Designated) Dayna Bochco, Coastal Commission Chair; Susan Hansch (Designated) Michael Cohen, Director, Department of Finance; Karen Finn (Designated) Senate Representatives Assembly Representatives Benjamin Allen (District 26) Mark Stone (District 29) Anthony […]
Bringing Together Research, Large-Scale Investment, Community Resilience Policy, and Public Education Wednesday, September 12, 2018 ¬ 6:00–8:30 p.m. Free, RSVP required. Email reserve@exploratorium.edu, or call 415.528.4444, and choose option 5. An interdisciplinary panel of Bay Area experts will share approaches to climate change adaptation and engagement that are helping to create a better future for […]
