The success of any group endeavor depends on the dedication of the partners. Primary partners to the RCD are Yolo County farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners. They open their land and minds to new ideas, technology, and management practices. By attracting significant state and federal funding, the RCD lends support to these experimental locals who share a challenging vision - to balance ag success, wildlife habitat, and resource conservation. Together, we work to install and refine cost-effective, innovative model practices that enhance agricultural operations as well as watershed resources, natural and man-made, local and imported.

What follows is a list of other formal and informal partners who share in the District's quest to make Yolo County a bright model of resource conservation and restoration that supports healthy farming. They are organized below by federal, state, county/city or local non-profit conservation partners.

Federal Partnerships

• USDA: Natural Resources Conservation Service
• USDA: Farm Services Agency
• USDA: Agricultural Research Service
• Bureau of Land Management
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• US Army Corps of Engineers

State Partnerships

• USDA: Natural Resources Conservation Service (California)
  
• California Association of Resource Conservation Districts
• California State Department of Conservation
• University of California – Davis:
  
• Agronomy and Range Science
• Land, Air, & Water Resources
• Landscape Architecture
• Plant Sciences
• University of California Cooperative Extension
• California Department of Fish and Game
• State Water Resources Control Board
• California Regional Water Quality Control Board – Region 5
• Department of Pesticide Regulations
• California Energy Commission
• California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
• California Farm Bureau Foundation – Ag in the Classroom
• Putah/Cache Creek Bioregion Group

County and City Partners

• Yolo County Board of Supervisors
• Yolo County Public Works
• Woodland Community Development Department
• Yolo County Parks and Recreation Department
• Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District
• City of Davis Parks and Recreation
• Yolo County Habitat Conservation Joint Powers Agency
  
• Colusa Basin Drainage District
• Reclamation District 108
• Water Resources Association of Yolo County
• Yolo County Farm Bureau
• Solano County Resource Conservation District
  

Local Non-Profit Conservation Partners

• Audubon California Landowner Stewardship Program
  
• Center for Land-based Learning
• Student and Landowner Education and Watershed Stewardship (SLEWS): The SLEWS Program provides Yolo, Sacramento and Solano County high school students with real-life, on-farm experience in year-long resortation projects on participating farmers' lands. This program is  managed by the Center for Land-based Learning in Winters, CA in partnership with the Yolo County  RCD and Audubon-California Landowner Stewardship Program (see above).
• Community Alliance with Family Farmers
• Yolo Land Trust
• Capay Valley Vision
  
• Yolo Basin Foundation
• Putah Creek Council
• Lower Putah Creek Coordinating Committee
• Cache Creek Conservancy
• Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture
• The Nature Conservancy
• Ducks Unlimited
• California Waterfowl Association
• American Farmland Trust
• California Native Grass Association
• Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area Conservation Partnership
  
• Sacramento River Watershed Program
• Solano Land Trust
  

Links to External Resources

• Almond Board - Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs): "provides guidelines... on how to minimize potential hazards during production and sources of potential contamination."

• WaterTox - University of California Integrated Pest Management allows users to "...evaluate the risk that pesticides will move with water and eroded soil or organic matter and affect nontarget organisms. It helps pesticide users consider the long-term hazard to humans and fish from leaching and runoff when they make pest management decisions that involve pesticides."