Tuleyome was founded in 2002 as a volunteer advocacy-oriented nonprofit organization that is focused on protecting both the wild and agricultural heritages of the Inner Coastal Range and the Western Sacramento Valley for current and future generations.  These areas include all or parts of Yolo, Lake, Napa, Colusa, Glen, Mendocino and Solano counties in northwestern California. Tuleyome has worked to these ends by:

• Spearheading formal Wild and Scenic River designation for upper Cache Creek
• Working with Congressman Mike Thompson to successfully designate Cedar Roughs and Cache Creek Wilderness Areas and additions to Snow Mountain Wilderness, adding them to the National Wilderness Preservation System.
• Acquiring ecologically key properties at Ireland Ranch, Cold Canyon and Goat Mountain and the Berryessa Peak trail easement to help open lands to public use.
• Building and continuing to maintain public trails at Cold Canyon, Berryessa Peak, and Valley Vista.
• Eradicating invasive Arundo and tamarisk weeds along the wilderness run of Cache Creek with a team of volunteers.

What We Do

Working Towards Permanent Protection of the Berryessa Snow Mountain Region

Tuleyome is working to protect over 321,000 acres of public lands spanning from the lowlands of Putah Creek below Lake Berryessa across remote stretches of Cache Creek and up to the peaks of Goat and Snow Mountains.  A National Conservation Area designation will acknowledge the region’s conservation value and will provide landscape-level management and coordination among the federal land managers, and provide a recreational, ecological, and economic resource for our region

Youth Program 

With our Home Place Adventures Program Tuleyome partners’ with local youth organizations to provide deserving youth a year-round program to introduce them to the outdoors and instill in them a sense of stewardship of the land while building self-esteem, instilling leadership qualities and developing an appreciation for the environment in which we live.  Our Youth Outdoor Exploration Program takes kids on trips include kayaking on Cache Creek; hiking, fishing, trail building, camping and outdoor education.  

Another aspect of our youth program is Nature’s Theater.  Nature’s Theater’s mission is to connect kids, our next generation of sustainable caretakers for the earth, to the joys of being outside: we strive to inspire children using interactive stories in the outdoors, facilitated by teenagers, adults or seniors, to foster responsibility, appreciation and care for the natural world, build community, and participate in learning in a fun, inspiring way.

Land Stewardship Projects and Tuleyome Trails

Tuleyome maintains an online outdoor recreation information guide providing comprehensive descriptions of outdoor trails and activities in the Berryessa Snow Mountain Region.  Through our Tuleyome Trails program (formerly Yolohiker) we lead hikes, build and maintain trails.

Other land stewardship projects that we engage on is working with the BLM on developing a management plan for the Bear Creek Unit, invasive species eradication, mercury mine remediation, and land preservation projects.

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