What We Do

Protecting the Putah Creek and Cache Creek Region

The Putah-Cache region is home to the bald eagles, otters, mountain lions, and black bears that draw people to the wildlands. It is also the home of Swainson's Hawks, robins, and meadowlarks found in both agricultural and urban regions. Streams and riparian corridors provide important biological linkages and thousands of acres of oak woodlands, chaparral, and native grasslands in the interior Coastal Range mountains, and seasonal wetlands and vernal pools host dozens of sensitive plant and wildlife species.

Programs for Recreation

The Capay Valley Hiking Club (yolohiker.org) has been a longstanding Tuleyome Program. The club provides guided outings to the backcountry of the Putah and Cache Creek Watersheds. When you sign up to be a Yolo Hiker you will receive regular invitations via email on all guided hikes in the area.

Opportunities for our Youth

The Putah-Cache region offers tremendous opportunities for both passive and active environmental recreation, from birding in the Yolo Bypass State Wildlife Area, to rafting on the Cache Creek State Wild & Scenic River. Many under-served youth throughout Yolo County are unaware of these opportunities or unable to participate due to financial constraints. Working in conjuction with the Colling's West Sacramento Teen Center, Tuleyome offers Yolo County teens a summer outdoor program that will integrate and build on the center's existing programs teaching social skills and providing youth with alternatives to drugs and crime. We are building self-esteem, instilling leadership qualities and developing an appreciation for the environment in which we live.

Vision Statement

Living sustainably in the Putah/Cache Bioregion requires a balance between the human and natural uses of the regional landscape. Our interests are to protect, restore and enhance the aquatic, riparian, and terrestrial environmental values in this bioregion, while maintaining a sustainable human landscape involving agriculture and other traditional uses. The needs of all of the residents in the bioregion are important. Policy decisions in this region must address the needs of both the human and the non-human occupants in these watersheds.

With good science and data, publicly developed and shared, and sensitivity to the varied viewpoints of the region's stakeholders, we can address our goals for maintaining the viability of the ecological and economic systems that sustain our people.

Tuleyome Vision for the Cache Creek Basin(PDF)