Winters, CA – The Yocha-De-He Community Fund recently awarded $5,000 to Audubon California’s Landowner Stewardship Program to support its habitat restoration work on private lands in Yolo County.

The grant will support an ambitious new program with a long-range goal of reconnecting native bird and wildlife habitat areas the Coast Range foothills with the Sacramento Valley floor.

“We are excited to partner with the Yocha-De-He Community Fund to protect wildlife habitats in working landscapes,” said Vance Russell, director of the Landowner Stewardship Program. “Yolo County farmers and ranchers have taken the lead in making wildlife habitat a part of their successful farming operations, and the tribe’s support will help them take this important work to the next level.”

The Landowner Stewardship Program, based in Winters, works with agricultural landowners to restore riparian habitat for the benefit variety of birds and other wildlife. Over the past decade, the program has worked with dozens of landowners to restore rangeland and creek habitat in the county.

“The Tribe is impressed with Audubon California’s dedication and commitment to restoring native wildlife habitat on farms and ranches in Yolo County,” said Rumsey Tribal Chairman Marshall McKay.

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About the Yocha-De-He Community Fund

The Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians owns and operates Cache Creek Casino Resort in Brooks, California. The Yocha-De-He Community Fund, established in October 2000, is the philanthropic branch of the Tribal Government. The fund provides more than $1 million annually to non-profit organizations to strengthen regional programs and services in Yolo County and surrounding areas with a focus on education, community health, arts and humanities, environment, community development, and social services. To date, the Yocha-De-He Community Fund contributes to more than 260 local organizations and exceeds $12 million, supporting causes, projects and programs that are important to the Tribe and its members. For more information or an application please contact Karen Charney, executive director of the Yocha-De-He Community Fund at (530) 757-7636 or visit http://fund.rumseyrancheria.org.