California’s
RREA program takes an integrated approach to educational outreach.
Outreach groups include range and forest landowners, government agencies, interest
groups, and policy makers. The most critical environmental issues targeted by
this program include:
• Conservation and enhancement of wetlands/riparian resources
• Endangered species/biodiversity
• Atmospheric pollution/global climate change
• Erosion/nonpoint source pollution
• Water quality/quantity
These issues require integrative approaches from diverse perspectives and
innovative solutions.
Through the limited federal funds allocated to RREA, we leverage the research
results using our Cooperative Extension delivery network.
Cooperative Extension, the principal outreach arm of the Division of Agriculture
and Natural Resources, includes more than 250 specialists on the Berkeley,
Davis and Riverside campuses, as well as 200 county academic appointees, or
advisors, in the state’s communities.
The results of this delivery system, featured on this Web site in the stories
of California’s landowners, demonstrate the continued success of the
original vision for the public university system “on behalf of the people.”
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