Acknowledgements
This website is based on the 2017 book, SoCal Yard Transformation: A Step-by-Step to Get the Yard You Want, that was financed and made possible by the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality, and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 84) administered by the State of California, Department of Water Resources and by the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA). SAWPA member agencies include Eastern Municipal Water District, Inland Empire Utilities Agency, Orange County Water District, San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District, and Western Municipal Water District.
The following people are gratefully acknowledged:
AUTHORS
Water Chapter: Mark Norton, Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority
Planning Chapter: Bob Perry, Perry & Associates Collaborative
Soils Chapter: Dennis Pittenger, University of California Cooperative Extension; Pam Pavela, Western Municipal Water District
Plants Chapter: Dennis Pittenger, University of California Cooperative Extension; Pam Pavela, Western Municipal Water District
Native Plants Chapter: Lisa Novick, Theodore Payne Foundation; April Garbat, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Irrigation Chapter: Anita Matlock, Rain Bird Corporation; Dennis Pittenger and Janet Hartin, University of California Cooperative Extension; Pam Pavela, Western Municipal Water District
Sustainability Chapter: Drew Ready, Chino Basin Water Conservation District; Janet Hartin, University of California Cooperative Extension
FUNDING PARTNERS
California Department of Water Resources – Prop. 84 grant
Western Municipal Water District
Western Riverside Council of Governments
Chino Basin Water Conservation District
This website was designed by Studio L and Western Municipal Water District, and is maintained by Western Municipal Water District.
Special recognition goes to the University of California Cooperative Extension for allowing the use of excerpts from the California Master Gardener Handbook, 2nd Edition; D. Pittinger et al. UC ANR Publication #3382; ISBN #978-1-60107-857-5. Copyright 2015 The Regents of the University of California. Used with permission.
The excerpts can be found in the Soil and Plants chapters.