Ventura County
Ventura County
Through Prop 68, the California Department of Conservation awarded funding to the Ventura County RCD for its Working Lands and Riparian Corridors Program, supporting the protection, restoration, and enhancement of working lands and riparian corridors through conservation easements and habitat restoration.
VCRCD partnered with King & King Ranch— a private landowner in Ventura County— to plant two 0.25-acres agricultural hedgerows. This project will purchase a well filter, a variable frequency drive, and a soil moisture sensor system that will complement ongoing and planned efforts, specifically the current planting of a native plant windrow and an ongoing 32-acre conversion of row crops to organic avocado.
To learn more, visit our Department of Conservation page.
VCRCD partnered with King & King Ranch to restore oak woodlands in two drainage areas of the parcel’s upland zone and remove invasive reed, Arundo donax, from 3 acres within the parcels’ riparian zone. The land-use designation for the two parcels included in this project is “agriculture,” specifically irrigated orchards and row crops.
To learn more, visit our Department of Conservation page.
VCRCD partnered with Atmore & Sons— a private landowner in Ventura County— to plant and monitor 400 Quercus agrifolia (Coast Live Oaks) and Platanus racemosa (Western Sycamore) for the next 25 years. This restoration project spans approximately 15 acres of actively grazed ranchland, broken into five distinct tree planting sites. The sites are all contiguous with open, foothill lands north of San Buenaventura (Ventura) and the adjacent Los Padres National Forest, which offers open space and wildlife corridor access for local species.
To learn more, visit our Department of Conservation page.