Community & Youth Engagement

We host an annual meeting in partnership with the NRCS Lakeport Field Office to bring together local agencies, stakeholders, and landowners to discuss natural resource concerns and collectively identify solutions.

In partnership with the NRCS Lakeport Field Office, LCRCD hosts an annual Local Working Group meeting that convenes local agencies, stakeholders, private landowners, and members of the public to identify and prioritize local environmental and natural resource concerns. These meetings provide a direct platform for attendees to interface with local NRCS and LCRCD staff, who work together to provide a synthesis to NRCS leadership in California. The goal of these meetings is to elevate local voices and to collectively tailor and advance on-the-ground conservation work on behalf of the Lake County community.

We regularly offer coffee chats, project site strolls, and workshops on a variety of forest stewardship topics.

LCRCD brings together forest landowners, technical experts, and agency partners to host workshops focused on forested environments. These events are held on both private and public lands throughout Lake County and cover a variety of topics, including oak woodland and conifer forest stewardship, reforestation and post-fire tree establishment, and types of forested wildlife habitats in Lake County. Each workshop also highlights opportunities for private landowners to access technical and financial assistance programs to improve forest health on their property.

LCRCD strives to elevate local forest landowner and manager expertise whenever possible. If you are interested in hosting a workshop on your property or would like to request a specific workshop topic, please reach out.

We regularly offer workshops for farmers, farm managers, and farmworkers on a variety of topics, including soil health and irrigation efficiency.

LCRCD brings together producers, technical experts, and agency partners to host workshops focused on sharing hands-on tools and providing peer-to-peer learning opportunities for agricultural land managers and the broader community. These events provide opportunities to learn about conservation practices, funding programs, and local strategies for improving soil health, water use, habitat enhancement, and targeted grazing.

LCRCD strives to elevate the expertise of local farmers and ranchers whenever possible. If you are interested in hosting a workshop on your property or would like to request a specific workshop topic, please reach out.

We host three youth events annually in partnership with Lake County’s local elementary schools: Field Day in the Creek, Kids in the Creek, and Trout in the Classroom.

LCRCD hosts several youth events every year, all of which focus on classroom and/or field-based education.

Field Day in the Creek
This field-based event began in the mid-1990s as a project of the Upper Putah Creek Stewardship Council; it has since been carried on by LCRCD. Field Day in the Creek is hosted every April at Diamond D Ranch in Middletown with students from Middletown Unified School District. Its persistence is due to the coordination of LCRCD, hospitality of the owners and managers at Diamond D Ranch, and flexibility of the teachers and administrators at Middletown Unified School District.

More than 100 students typically attend and rotate through as many as eight streamside stations, which include short, interactive programs on forestry, geology, agriculture, hydrology, aquatic biology, and wildlife conservation. Students enjoy presentations from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Lake County Department of Agriculture, Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance, Redbud Audubon Society, U.S. Forest Service, and a local geological consultant, among others. Smokey Bear usually makes an appearance as well.