At the 2018 California Association of Resource Conservation Districts (CARCD) Conference in San Diego, IERCD Programs Manager Susie Kirschner and NRCS District Conservationist Tomas Aguilar-Campos accepted the Association's annual Conservation Innovators Award presented to the Inland Empire Resource Conservation District and the Redlands NRCS office.  This award celebrated the District's work in greatly accelerating the local capacity to complete forest restoration by developing unique partnerships.