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PROGRAMS - Conserve the Tuolumne Corridor Program Updates - Trust receives grant to expand River education program The Trust and its partners received a $200,000 grant from the Bay Delta Authority for environmental education and restoration efforts along the lower Tuolumne River. As a result, this grant will bring even more school kids to the Big Bend restoration site and other locations along the River. Students will use the Trekking the Tuolumne curriculum to learn about conservation of the Tuolumne River. This grant partners the Trust with key environment and education groups in the Central Valley, including: the Great Valley Museum, Modesto City Schools, Stanislaus County of Education, City of Modesto, California Regional Environmental Education Community, and East Stanislaus Resource Conservation District. These organizations will contribute teaching materials, teachers, chaperones, curriculum, and over 8,000 participants to the program. Fall will be the big kick-off for the Trekking program. We are looking for volunteers to help out, so if you’re inclined towards education, hiking, paddling, or just have some ideas for new Trust activities, please call Elizabeth Holtz at (209) 236-0330 or email her at elizabeth@tuolumne.org. Conserve the Tuolumne Corridor Program The Trust works with private landowners to maintain agricultural lands and increase conserved floodplain areas. The goal is to protect and restore one of the great natural floodplains remaining in California's Central Valley to benefit wild salmon and other wildlife. The Tuolumne floodplain, still relatively undisturbed, can be a national model of nonstructural flood management and how a functioning floodplain restores habitat. We are restoring Big Bend, a 250-acre project, as an outdoor classroom. The Trust advocates higher flows to protect the river's health and improve habitat conditions and functions for native fish as well as wintering waterfowl, sandhill cranes, and other shorebirds. We work with the Tuolumne River Technical Advisory Committee to monitor the restoration projects and flows required by the 1995 license for Don Pedro Dam. The Trust also works with the Tuolumne River Coalition to create the Lower Tuolumne River Parkway to improve habitat and recreation on the river. All of these efforts restore two of the most at-risk habitats in California: wetlands and riparian woodlands. Comments
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