The CDFA Healthy Soils Program tool is a custom module of RePlan, developed for the California Strategic Growth Council with the goal of providing quality, up-to-date maps and data for use across state agencies for their conservation decisions.

Conservation Biology Institute specializes in harnessing the power of spatial data for conservation planning and decision-making. We create tools in close collaboration with state agencies that help them achieve their missions. Recently we’ve had the opportunity to work with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). 

The CDFA Healthy Soils Program promotes the development of healthy soils on California’s farmlands and ranch lands by providing financial incentives to California growers and ranchers to implement agricultural management practices that sequester carbon, reduce atmospheric GHGs and improve soil health.  

Conservation Biology Institute created the CDFA Healthy Soils Program tool, an online tool to streamline the submission process for proposals to the Healthy Soils Program. This tool, a custom module of RePlan, allows a grant recipient to locate and map proposed conservation practices, view and select from recommended species for planting, and conform with multiple project eligibility requirements.  All project components are then summarized in a proposal report for upload to the CDFA Healthy Soils Program project submission website.

*Find the tool here: https://sitecheck.opr.ca.gov/

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