WHO DIRECTS AND IMPLEMENTS THE FISH FRIENDLY FARMING PROGRAM?
 
The California Land Stewardship Institute (CLSI) is a non profit organization dedicated to planning   and implementing environmental stewardship, restoration and enhancement programs and projects including educational activities, scientific studies, promotion of beneficial stewardship practices and resource conservation activities on private and public lands and waterways. CLSI also supports and supplies marketing and promotion on behalf of certified members of the Fish Friendly Farming Environmental Certification program.
CLSI operates the Fish Friendly Farming Environmental Certification Program in Sonoma, Mendocino, Napa and Solano Counties.   Laurel Marcus is the Executive Director of CLSI and the principal author and program manager for the Fish Friendly Farming Program.
 
Circuit Rider Productions, Inc. (CRP) is a non-profit organization founded in 1976 dedicated to the enhancement of natural ecosystems.   CRP provides revegetation designs, grows native plants in their nursery and implements native plantings on Fish Friendly Farming sites that need ecological restoration of the creek corridor.
http://www.crpinc.org
 
Resource Conservation Districts (RCDs) were established after the Dust Bowl to aid farmers and ranchers in their soil conservation efforts.   The Napa County RCD provides technical assistance, landowner outreach and assists in the implementation of projects for the FFF program in Napa County.
http://www.naparcd.org

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