CURRENTLY ACCEPTING PROJECT PROPOSALS

ARCD has funding available to design, install, and monitor monarch and pollinator habitat restoration projects on working lands in Amador County.

Selected projects will receive technical support to design a pollinator habitat installation, incorporating a minimum of one of the following habitat designs:

• Hedgerows
• Rangeland Planting
• Riparian Habitat Restoration 
• Tree/Shrub Establishment

Grant funding will provide:

• Technical Assistance
• Planning of Habitat Design 
• Installation Materials (plants, seed, irrigation, fencing)
• Maintenance and Monitoring Support (selected projects may be monitored over a 10 year period)

Project objectives include:

• Demonstrating successful management of monarch and pollinator habitat on working lands
• Enchancing pollinator habitat alongside county wildfire recovery and mitigation efforts
• Habitat monitoring
• Community education
• Direct and/or Indirect Benefit to Disadvantaged Communities

Project selection is on an ongoing basis until funds expire. Priorities for project selection includes:

• Project alignment with funding objectives
• Site location 
• Funding capacity

If interested, please submit your information here: Monarch & Pollinator Habitat on Working and Private Lands General Interest Form

You may be contacted for a site visit if your site is determined to fit current or future project criteria. Filling out this interest form is not a guarantee of funding or assistance. Depending on interest and/or demand the ARCD may not have the capacity to provide technical assistance to all interest form submissions at this time.

Funding made available through Climate Resilience through Habitat Restoration on California Lands Grant from the California Wildlife Conservation Board and California Association of Resource Conservation Districts.