Butte County Resource Conservation District

Prescribed Burn Association

"Neighbors helping neighbors put good fire on the ground": that's what the Butte Prescribed Burn Association is all about! When we learn to use fire in a good way, we build community and heal from the wildfire traumas of our past.

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Butte Forests Plan is Complete!

The Butte Forested Watersheds Plan ("Butte Forests Plan" for short) is our local forest health community's collaborative vision for "the next forest." Summarizing the three years of forest health collaboration since the Camp Fire, it was compiled by BCRCD from the input of 40+ partners/stakeholders/…

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Reforestation Guidelines For The Ridge

Better than anyone, Paradise residents know that simply putting the forest back the way it was before the fire is not "recovery". In 2018-19, BCRCD's Forest Health Watershed Coordinators worked with CAL FIRE, the Town of Paradise, UCD climate scientists, local gardening experts, and local registered…

Reforesting Butte County

How Many Trees Are We Planting? On top of the human toll, the Camp Fire and North Complex fires also killed as many as three million trees. We will not replace every tree that burned because Butte County's "next forest" needs to be less dense. But, we will replant several hundred thousand trees in a fire…

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Butte County RCD is here to help farmers and ranchers use water more efficiently. That promotes plant health and lowers costs too. Click here to find financial assistance to improve irrigation…

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Sacramento Valley Durable Collaboration

The Butte County Resource Conservation District is working on a durable collaboration effort with the Sacramento Valley Region of Resource Conservation Districts. The goal is to develop an agreement…

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Butte County Trails Plan Is Here!

Trails-based recreation keeps us healthy, it drives local economic development, and it's a Butte County way of life. For these reasons, the 2030 Butte County General Plan called for the development of…

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BCRCD works with many partners in identifying solutions to local resource problems.

Beautiful Butte County

Butte County is a place of natural beauty with countless opportunities for recreation in both rural and urban environments. Many Butte County residents live in one of the five incorporated towns or…

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