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Youth Stewards Initiative
This initiative is geared toward providing high school students, our decisionmakers of the future, with an opportunity to implement a restoration project and learn about working agricultural lands.
Clean Water Initiative
The Napa Countywide Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program and the Napa County RCD are partnering to help kids Keep Napa Clean through providing in-class and experiential education about our water, watersheds, and pollution prevention. This program is for students of...
Workshops
Join us for workshops on useful topics.
Movie Nights
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Vineyard Plan Resource Binder
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Vineyard Plan Template
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History and Quick Facts
RCD’s demonstration of a practical, economically viable agricultural system that is both compatible with, and a part of, sustainable natural hydrologic and biotic systems.
Rutherford Reach Restoration
This rehabilitation of local riparian and aquatic habitats on the 4.5 mile Rutherford Reach of the Napa River is an exceptional example of public-private cooperation.
Scott Creek Restoration
The project was completed in 2009, preventing approximately 5,500 cubic yards of fine sediment from entering the creek system. Fine sediments can degrade the quality of aquatic habitat by building up in creekbeds and eliminating otherwise ideal spawning conditions.
Napa River Footpath
Replacing the Napa River Footpath will open almost 15 miles of habitat to threatened steelhead The concrete footpath that crosses the Napa River in the City of Calistoga provides treasured access to the river and a convenient pathway within the City. The structure is...
Heath Creek
Two miles of habitat made available by the removal of 4 fish passage barriers Just west of the City of St. Helena, the Heath Canyon watershed has beautiful habitat than can support significant numbers of steelhead trout. However, access to the habitat was restricted...
Zinfandel Lane Bridge
Construction resulted in renewed access for steelhead and salmon to over 56 miles of streams, including some of the highest quality streams in the valley.
Heath Canyon Roads
Unpaved roads can have unanticipated effects upon the watersheds. They can concentrate runoff, increase erosion, and potentially deliver excess sediment into streams.
Carneros Creek Roads
Storm-proofing of Carneros Creek roads improves aquatic habitat.
Sulphur Creek Roads
This initiative helped protect an important subwatershed of the Napa River that supports steelhead and provides year-round flows to the Napa River system.
Wing Canyon
A defunct flashboard dam that partially obstructed nearly 0.8 miles of ideal steelhead spawning and rearing habitat was removed.