News and Announcements Archive

The Wildlife Conservation Board today announced the release of its 2025–2030 Strategic Plan (PDF) that will guide the Board’s conservation and public access investments over the next five years.

Check out our News Release for more details.

The Wildlife Conservation Board awards $21.7 million in grants to 16 habitat conservation and restoration projects at its August 28 quarterly meeting.

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The Advisory Committee of the Lower American River Conservancy Program will meet on October 9, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. at CNRA’s headquarters, first floor auditorium, in downtown Sacramento. This meeting will also be available via Zoom.

All are welcome to join.

A final agenda will be available ten days prior to the meeting.

As of August 1, 2024, the Wildlife Conservation Board will be using a revised version of its General Grant Guidelines which were previously posted in January 2023. It is available on WCB’s Grant Opportunities page. These revisions are generally minor, the most substantive of which are summarized below:

• Information about requesting advance funding
• Updates for Amendments for Development Project Grants
• Clarification of differences between Acquisition and Development projects regarding Reporting and Monitoring
• Updated information about Signage and Other Acknowledgements

Future proposals submitted to the Wildlife Conservation Board must comply with these revised guidelines. For questions, please contact Shannon Lucas at Shannon.Lucas@wildlife.ca.gov.

Please join the Wildlife Conservation Board for the first Advisory Committee meeting of the year for the Lower American River Conservancy Program being held Thursday, April 18, 2024, in CNRA’s headquarters, first floor auditorium, in downtown Sacramento and also via Zoom. All are welcome to join. The meeting will be from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

View the Agenda (PDF) for meeting details.

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