Building Wildlife-Friendly Resilience in Working Landscapes - Roots 179

The project, titled Building Wildlife-Friendly Resilience in Working Landscapes - Roots 179, aims to enhance ecological connectivity and support biodiversity on a 3.04-acre private property in Yolo County, California, situated within an intensively managed agricultural landscape dominated by vineyards and cropland. It includes the establishment of a 3,180-foot native hedgerow designed to serve as a pesticide-free refuge for beneficial arthropods such as native bees and to provide habitat for birds and other vertebrate wildlife. The hedgerow is strategically buffered from adjacent chemical applications by roads and connected through irrigation channels to existing habitat threads, promoting species movement and resilience. In addition, three barn owl nest boxes and four small songbird nest boxes for species like bluebirds and tree swallows will be installed to expand nesting opportunities in an area previously lacking suitable habitat. The project qualifies for a categorical exemption under California Code of Regulations Section 15333 as a small habitat restoration initiative under five acres, and its implementation is authorized under relevant sections of the Public Resources Code. The Wildlife Conservation Board, a division of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, is the lead agency overseeing the project, with Rebecca Fris, Deputy Executive Director, serving as the primary point of contact. The work is conducted on a specific parcel with APN 043-210-001-000 near Clarksburg, and acceptance of the deliverables occurs on-site under the authority of the Wildlife Conservation Board. No formal contract type, pricing, solicitation number, or federal acquisition clauses such as those under FAR are included, as the initiative is funded and managed through state-level environmental funding and exemption procedures rather than a competitive federal procurement process. No delivery dates, invoicing methods, payment details, or contractor specifications are provided, indicating this is internally administered as a direct state-led conservation effort without external contracting.