Environmental Awareness Award

Julie Rentner is President of the Chico-based, statewide restoration nonprofit River Partners, whose mission is to create wildlife habitat for the benefit of people and the environment.  She has led the design and construction of hundreds of millions of dollars of river restoration projects across the largest rivers in California. Julie has developed and led stakeholder processes supporting the integration of flood control and ecosystem enhancement at the regional level, resulting in the development of several on-the-ground multi-benefit projects, as well as the creation of the Mid San Joaquin River Regional Flood Management Plan. She joined River Partners in 2008 as a Restoration Ecologist based in the San Joaquin Valley. She completed the California Agricultural Leadership Program in 2015 and serves as President of Reclamation District 2092. She received her BS in Forestry at the University of California, Berkeley and MS from the University of Hawaii, Manoa in Natural Resources and Environmental Management.