Imperial Valley Community Foundation, 1000 Broadway, El Centro, CA 92243
(760) 336-0055
For reference, here are the grantee reports from the initial grant cycle of IVCF's BUOW Stewardship & Education Fund. Thank you to our grantees for allowing their efforts and reports and to be shared:
In January 2013, IVCF established the Burrowing Owl Stewardship and Education Fund, in conjunction with 8minutenergy Renewables and Sierra Club. This fund is designed to give financial support to initiatives that protect the burrowing owl population in Imperial Valley, where more than half of North America's burrowing owls live.
The fund will be advised by a committee of science, conservation, and agricultural experts to make recommendations of where funding should go. The activities that contribute to burrowing owl preservation are broad, and can include acquiring land for habitat, constructing or restoring burrows, educating farmers and construction crews on how to avoid burrowing owls without negatively affecting their own practices, and other activities.
Would an Imperial Valley Conservation Plan for Burrowing Owls be Helpful? Panel Discussion, by Graham Chisholm.
We would like to thank 8minutenergy and AES Solar for their early contributions, which were vital in starting the fund.
Graham Chisholm, Sarah Friedman, Lynne Trulio, Paul Cameron, Bruce Wilcox, Stephanie Dashiell, Kelly Bishop, Connie Valenzuela.
