Natural Resources Conservation Service

California

United States Department of Agriculture

Plantings Aim to Help Monarch Butterflies

With the Western monarch butterfly population dropping, conservation groups encourage farmers, ranchers and home gardeners to plant more of the native milkweed that monarchs need to survive—and are working on seed mixes and other incentives to speed the rescue effort...

NRCS, UC Davis Announce Release of SoilWeb 2.0 App Update

The update now has a cleaner, more modern interface and GPS-based links to NRCS-published, digitizled soil survey data (SSURGO) for most of the US.

Organic Farmers— Experienced or Brand New—Are All Welcome at NRCS

Organic Farmers JOHN Teixeira from Lone Willow Ranch near Firebaugh, California, first started working with conservationists from United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) when he was already an...

The ABCs of Pollinators

The ABCs of Pollinators will walk you through some of the amazing facts about pollinators' role in supporting life on this planet, and what we can do to help pollinators thrive.

California Dairy Family Provides Habitat for 25,000 Imperiled Birds

A Merced dairy family is playing a key role in protecting imperiled Tricolored Blackbirds, a California-native species federally listed as a Bird of Conservation Concern and as a State of California Threatened Species.

A large colony of the birds has been nesting at Diamond...