Proposition 84 included $54 million for the conservancy to provide grants over a 3-year period to eligible organizations for the protection and restoration of rivers, lakes and streams, their watersheds, and other natural resources. This year’s $17 million allocation constitutes the first major source of project funding for distribution by the SNC. At Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting, Board Chair Louis Boitano, who also sits on the Sierra Nevada Conservancy Board, said he was pleased with Amador County’s share of the grant funding, which was distributed to groups from Lassen County in the north all the way down to Kern County in the south. The Sierra Nevada Conservancy was created in 2004. The agency covers an area of 25 million acres over 22 CaliforniaSierra Nevada counties and was established to support efforts that improve the environmental, economic and social well-being of the region and its communities.
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Grants Awarded From The Sierra Nevada Conservancy Board
Two Amador
County groups have been
awarded grants from the Sierra Nevada Conservancy Board for watershed
protection projects in the
county. The Amador Fire Safe Council received 2 grants of $50,000 each for
Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Pine Grove and Pioneer/Volcano areas.
The Amador County Watershed Stewardship project received over $173,000 in grant
funding. The funding for the grants comes from Proposition 84, the Safe
Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coast
Protection Bond Act passed by California
voters in November 2006.
