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LOCAL:

  • City of Santa Cruz:
    The City of Santa Cruz's home page contains limited information on the various departments and programs available in regards to watershed management at this time.
  • Santa Cruz County:
    The County of Santa Cruz's home page provides links to various County departments and agencies (i.e. Planning Department; Public Works Department, etc.)
  • Santa Cruz Port District:
    The Port District home page contains information about the Port District and what one can do and see here.
  • Santa Cruz County Resource Conservation District:
    Set up to help people protect, conserve, and restore natural resources through information, education, and technical assistance programs, this agency has been vital to the Arana Gulch Watershed.
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STATE:

  • California Association of Resource Conservation Districts
    CARCD promotes the cooperation of federal, state, county, and municipal bodies with individual resource conservation districts. CARCD is a voluntary association whose primary purpose is to provide a unified means for California Resource Conservation Districts (RCDs) to meet major conservation goals
  • California Environmental Protection Agency:
    The mission of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) is to improve environmental quality in order to protect public health, the welfare of our citizens, and California's natural resources.
  • California Department of Fish and Game (DF&G):
    The Department of Fish and Game manages California's diverse fish, wildlife, and plant resources, and the habitats upon which they depend, for their ecological values and for their use and enjoyment by the public. This site provides links to its Habitat Conservation, Threatened and Endangered Species and Wildlife Programs.
  • California Coastal Conservancy:
    The CCC works to preserve, improve, and restore public access and natural resources along the California coast and on San Francisco Bay.
  • California State Lands Commission:
    The SLC manages and protects important natural and cultural resources on public lands within the state and the public's rights to access to such lands.
  • RCD Watershed Information Sharing Project (RCD-WISP)
    Resource Conservation Districts (RCDs), once known as Soil Conservation Districts, are "special districts" of the state of California, set up under California law to be locally governed agencies with their own locally appointed, independent boards of directors. Although RCDs are established locally by the rules of a county's Local Agency Formation Committee (LAFCO), and they often have close ties to county government, they are not county government entities.

    Resource Conservation Districts are grassroots conservation agencies working extensively with private landowners whose cooperation is essential to solve watershed problems. RCDs are the leading edge of locally-led watershed and land stewardship efforts. The WISP shares what conservation districts are doing in critical watersheds: their field projects, educational outreach, technical assistance for landowners and localenvironmental partnerships. See what's happening in Santa Cruz.

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FEDERAL:

  • National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
    NMFS administers NOAA's programs which support the domestic and international conservation and management of living marine resources. NMFS provides services and products to support domestic and international fisheries management operations, fisheries development, trade and industry assistance activities, enforcement, protected species and habitat conservation operations, and the scientific and technical aspects of NOAA's marine fisheries program.
  • Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Arana Gulch Watershed Alliance
345-D LakeAve., Santa Cruz, CA. 95060
Phone: 831-475-2379    E-mail: rjhaver@pacbell.net