Latest Project News
The Santa Ana River Parkway & Open Space Plan (SARP&OSP) is being developed by the California Coastal Conservancy’s Santa Ana River Conservancy Program to help jurisdictions along the river corridor collaborate on a shared vision for the Santa Ana River Parkway. Click here to view proposed Parkway projects, add your own project ideas, and share […]
LOS ANGELES – The Board of the State Coastal Conservancy, the State agency responsible for the protection and restoration of California’s coast and waterways, has authorized the disbursement of up to $2 million to the City of Los Angeles to develop the Implementation Plan for the Taylor Yard River Park on the Los Angeles River. […]
0.0-Cover-TOC-Acronyms.pdf 2.0-Project-Description.pdf 3.0 Analysis Overview.pdf 3.01 Aesthetics.pdf 3.02 Agriculture.pdf 3.03 Air Quality.pdf 3.04 Biological Resources.pdf 3.05 Cultural Resources.pdf 3.06 Geology and Soils.pdf 3.07 Greenhouse Gas Emissions.pdf 3.08 Hazards and Hazardous Materials.pdf 3.09 Hydrology and Water Quality.pdf 3.10 Land Use 3.11 Noise.pdf 3.12 Public Services and Utilities.pdf 3.13 Recreation.pdf 3.14 Transportation.pdf 3.15 Tribal Cultural Resources.pdf 3.16 […]
The Cedars supports some of the most unique and extremely unusual botanical, geological and aquatic resources on the planet. Peridotite mantle rock that normally rests 3 to 70 miles below the earth’s surface and serpentine soils make this ultra-basic environment home to at least eight endemic plant species. In 2011, the Conservancy partnered with the […]
The Coastal Conservancy hosted a webinar with Sustainable Conservation on March 28, 2016, to provide information on using programmatic permits and authorizations for voluntary restoration and water quality projects to accelerate this environmentally beneficial work. Use of these “simplified” permits can help project proponents and agencies save time and money so greater resources can be […]
January, 2016 Ten projects to protect and restore coastal habitats and coastal watersheds up and down the State of California will be recommended to the board of the State Coastal Conservancy as part of the first round of funding from the Water Quality, Supply and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 (Proposition 1). These projects, detailed […]
We are pleased to announce that the initial 100 year storm results from the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) are now available for download for the Los Angeles region. The Coastal Conservancy funded this project to provide the most complete information on the likely impacts of storms, combined with other factors such as tides, […]
In May 2015 the Conservancy and its partners completed a conceptual plan to restore native oyster habitat, and create a living shoreline, in San Diego Bay. The Conservancy worked with the San Diego Unified Port District, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Coastal Program, California State University Fullerton and the Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association to […]
Check out this great video about the California Coastal Trail by KCET, featuring San Diego County Supervisor Greg Cox and some fabulous footage of the California coast. For more information, visit the KCET web site here.
The California State Coastal Conservancy (Conservancy) is considering the adoption of a Mitigated Negative Declaration for the White Slough Restoration Project, which would restore tidal marsh habitat on diked former tidelands to enhance native wildlife habitat, protect existing transportation infrastructure and beneficially reuse sediment on the White Slough Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife […]
