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2024-2025

regions & Communities

2024-2025 grizzlycorps Projects

Click on the individual links below to learn more about GrizzlyCorps' projects for the 2024-2025 service year.

Bay Area

Blue Oak Ranch Reserve

UC Berkeley Natural Reserve System

Land Stewardship, Fire Resiliency & Oak Tree Monitoring at Blue Oak Ranch Reserve

University of California Cooperative Extension Santa Clara County: Small Farms & Specialty Crops

Supporting Small-Scale BIPOC Farmers in Healthy Soil, Conservation, and IPM Practices

University of California Cooperative Extension Santa Clara County: Urban Agriculture & Food System Program

Urban Farm Technician and Sustainable Food System Research & Extension Support

Marin County Fire Department- F.I.R.E. Foundry

Training and Outreach Coordinator for FIRE Foundry

 

Marin Water 

Forest Health and Watershed Resiliency through Community Engagement and Stewardship on Mt Tamalpais Watershed 

East Bay Regional Parks District 

Stewardship Habitat Restoration Program

North Coast
(Sonoma, lake, Mendocino, Humboldt, & trinity)

sierra nevada, San Joaquin & sacramento valleys

Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF)

Ecological Farming Outreach and Extension: Enhancing the accessibility and implementation of soil health and ecological pest management

 

Lost Sierra Food Project

Regenerative Agricultural Education in Rural Mountain Communities

 

UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources: California Institute for Water Resources

Addressing Disparities in Drinking Water Access in California Through Extension

Western Shasta Resource Conservation District

WSRCD Climate Stewardship Coordinator


Resource Conservation District of Tehama County

Advancing Forest Health via Field Operations, Modern Technologies, and Community Engagement

Shasta Valley Resource Conservation District

Restoring Fire-Adapted Forests and Watershed Stewardship in the Greater Klamath-Cascade

Coarsegold Resource Conservation District

Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Priority Pipeline Coordinator

Eastern Madera Fire Safe Council

Eastern Madera Planning Collaborative Lead and Assistant Database Developer

Blodgett Forest Research Station (Berkeley Forests)

Research to Extension Continuum: Building Forest Resilience on Private Lands

Butte County Resource Conservation District

Forest Resilience Specialist

central coast & southern ca

Hastings Natural History Reservation

UC Berkeley Natural Reserve System

Land management, research and community engagement at Hastings Reserve

Wild Farm Alliance

Building Wild and Resilient Farms in California

Sustainable Conservation

Outreach and Engagement: Supporting Technical Assistance Providers in Cover Crops and SGMA Implementation 

Pie Ranch

Pie Ranch Youth Corps Coordinator

Upper Salinas - Las Tablas Resource Conservation District

Central Coast California Sustainable Land Initiative: Farmer Outreach and Network Building

White Buffalo Land Trust  

Watershed Restoration Outreach and Engagement

Watershed Restoration on Regeneratively Farmed Land

Santa Monica Mountains Regional Fire Safe Council

Community Wildfire Mitigation in the Santa Monica Mountains

Resource Conservation of Greater San Diego County

Increasing Capacity for Wildfire Resilience and Regenerative Agriculture in San Diego County

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Land Acknowledgement

xučyun, Verona Band, Alameda County

For over five hundred years, indigenous communities across the Americas have demonstrated immense resilience and resistance in the face of violent efforts to separate them from their land, culture, and each other. They remain at the forefront of movements to protect the earth and the life it sustains. GrizzlyCorps acknowledges that public recognition and collaboration are necessary steps towards honoring these regions - beginning with careful reflection of the type of service GrizzlyCorps hopes to encapsulate. As we work to bring awareness of and give a platform to other voices, we remember that tribal territories have long fought to have their voices not only heard, but included in the creation of this society. 

GrizzlyCorps recognizes that the University of California, Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun, the traditional ancestral homeland of the Chochenyo Speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. We celebrate the continued vitality of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and members of the flourishing community who persist today. Establishing new traditions with an obligation towards remembrance is critical to sharing these voices, histories, and legacies of all the places in which we serve. GrizzlyCorps moves forward in advocacy for the healing of these lands and waters, while demonstrating our commitment to creating a real relationship with the local Ohlone and Indigenous communities across the state. 

​The fellows of GrizzlyCorps live and work on the ancestral, contemporary, and unceded territory of Indigenous people across the state, encompassing what is now known as California. For our  current members, these lands include those of the Graton Rancheria, Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk, Mountain Maidu, Patwin, Chumash, Yana, Winnimem Wintu, Paskenta Band of Nomlaki, Tachi Yokuts, Nisenan, Yurok, Popeloutchom (Amah Mutsun), Awaswas, and Pomo peoples. We honor the land and those who have been the original stewards of these regions since time immemorial, and commit to forming deeper partnerships to address past and ongoing land-based injustices through our work.

We come together to acknowledge what our service means, to be humble and listen to the voices that speak, to hear the Ohlone and countless others on this land who speak. Imbuing this thinking in how we partner with different communities and organizations all over the state is critical in defining respectable allyship. This acknowledgement, brief and in no way complete, aims to celebrate the traditional stewardship practices on these lands from generations past.  Nothing will remedy the historical traumas of these lived experiences, but it is with intent and meaning that we pay homage to a better future.

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