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Learning by Doing: 2025-26 Fall Teen Conservation Intern Reflections
Last October, Napa RCD proudly welcomed three Fall 2025 Teen Conservation Interns to the team. Throughout their internship, these extremely passionate students built valuable career skills while leading meaningful environmental projects close to home. They played an...
We’re hiring! Forest Health Project Manager
Are you passionate about conservation and eager to help communities protect and restore natural resources? The Napa County Resource Conservation District (Napa RCD) is seeking a Forest Health Project Manager to help shape the future of our forests and watersheds....
Exploring Biochar and Compost Synergies: Building Soil Health in Napa Vineyards
Long before anyone used words like carbon sequestration or soil microbiome, Indigenous farmers in the Amazon discovered how to turn poor, red clay into rich, black earth that still feeds crops today. They mixed charcoal from cooking fires with food scraps, bones, and...
Tending Life-Long Connections to the Land in Napa
At Napa RCD, we believe the future of our watershed begins with the people who call it home—especially the young people who will one day inherit the responsibility of caring for this land. Every day, we create opportunities for youth, families, and community members...
Regenerative Agriculture: Caring for Napa’s Working Lands
In Napa County, daily life is shaped by the land. Vineyards stretch across hillsides, ranches hug the valley, and generations of farmers rise with the sun to tend the soil that sustains us all. Here, thriving farms and healthy ecosystems are partners. And at Napa...
Stewarding Napa’s Forests for a Greener Tomorrow
Forests are more than trees—they are the backbone of healthy communities, resilient ecosystems, and a thriving watershed. At Napa RCD, our forestry program focuses on protecting and restoring these landscapes across Napa County. When our forests are healthy, they do...
Giving Tuesday: Investing in a Healthier Napa River Watershed
Giving Tuesday is here—a worldwide celebration of community and a day of charitable donation. This Giving Tuesday, we’re thrilled to once again participate in the Napa Valley CanDo Give!Guide, a campaign that makes it easy to support grassroots organizations working...
Request for Cost Proposal: Broom Removal and Vegetation Management – Westwood Hills French Broom Removal Project
The Westwood Hills Broom Removal Project is being implemented by the Napa County Resource Conservation District with funding provided by the North Coast Wildfire Resilience Planning & Implementation Grant Program through the California State Coastal Conservancy. ...
Kicking Off the 2025-26 School Year Outdoors!
Each year, Napa RCD provides free environmental education programs that connect Napa County students to the natural world around them and grows our overall community of conservation and future environmental stewards. This year, we are able to provide the programming...
Soil Science at Pueblo Vista Elementary’s Career Day
Napa RCD’s youth education program strives to connect kids to nature, starting them on a lifelong journey of stewardship. Recently, we had the chance to connect kids to the nature hidden in our soils. This year at Pueblo Vista Elementary’s Career Day, Miguel Garcia,...
Meet the 2025 Fall Teen Conservation Interns!
Recently, Napa RCD welcomed three 2025 Fall Teen Conservation Interns. The Teen Conservation Internship empowers high school students to develop valuable career skills and lead impactful environmental projects in their communities. As interns, these teens will...
Request for Proposals for Grant Management and Bookkeeping Consultant
Napa RCD is seeking an experienced consultant to provide as-needed professional invoicing, grant management, and financial process improvement support. We require a specialized partner to help streamline our growing financial operations, which involve managing funds...
Wildfire Preparedness
Napa RCD and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) are offering free consultation and site visits to those impacted by wildfires. How we can help you: Technical Assistance – We can come to your property and advise you on best practices moving forward to...
Igniting Change with the Napa Prescribed Burn Association
Active Prescribed FireThere is generally a lot of excitement about using prescribed fire to manage landscapes and ecosystems – and for good reasons. Fire has always been a part of California’s history and environment. Whether this fire started from natural ignition or...
Rooted in Action Week (July 7-12) – Semana de Raíces en Acción (Julio 7 a 12)
Rooted in Action Week: A Celebration of Sustainability! (siga leyendo para español) Join Napa RCD & the City of Napa for a week of fun, hands-on activities all about living more sustainably and caring for our local environment. From reducing food waste to...
Reel Science: Fish Monitoring Demo Day
Join Napa RCD for Reel Science, a behind the scenes look at our Fish Monitoring program! The event will take place at our Rotary Screw Trap field site. Napa RCD's Environmental Scientist, Martin Perales, will be on-site to talk about all things fish in the Napa River....
Restoring Land through the Healthy Soils Program: A Look at Karen Rippey’s Property
Tucked in the rolling hills of southern Napa County, Karen Rippey’s 716-acre property is a powerful example of what land management and restoration can achieve. Before Karen began her journey with California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Healthy Soils Program...
Napa RCD & the 2021 Healthy Soils Program: Three Years of Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices
Napa RCD & HSP Program Participant K. Rippey assessing a growing seedling, 2025.For the past three years, Napa RCD has been working with California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Healthy Soils Program (HSP) to help local farmers adopt sustainable...