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Congratulations to DPR's IPM Achievement Award Recipients!

March 12, 2025

DPR would like to congratulate the winners of our annual IPM Achievement Awards! These awards recognize organizations and individuals for their achievements in advancing safer, more sustainable IPM practices in California.

A recording of this year’s ceremony at CalEPA Headquarters can be watched on YouTube.

Congratulations to Pollinator Partnership! Watch their ceremony video here.

Congratulations to University of Santa Cruz – Grounds Services! Watch their ceremony video here.

Congratulations to the UC Master Gardeners of Ventura County! Watch their ceremony video here.

What is IPM?

Integrated pest management, or IPM, is a sustainable pest management strategy you can use everyday. IPM focuses on a variety of pest prevention and non-toxic or least-toxic pest management techniques to effectively solve pest problems. IPM strategies use practices that exclude pests so they can’t cause problems and use pesticides only as a last resort. By using integrated pest management practices, it’s possible to effectively, safely, and more sustainably manage pests at your school or child care center while protecting staff, children, and the environment. 

What is SPM?

Sustainable Pest Management (SPM) is a holistic, whole-system approach applicable in agricultural and other managed ecosystems and urban and rural communities that builds on the concept of integrated pest management (IPM) to include the wider context of the three sustainability pillars: Human Health & Social Equality, Environmental Protections, and Economic Vitality.

Questions? Contact Us:

Please contact the Department of Pesticide Regulation’s IPM Achievement Award Program by emailing achieve@cdpr.ca.gov. For additional information about the IPM Achievement Awards please visit DPR’s website.

Who We Are

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation protects human health and the environment by fostering safer and sustainable pest management practices and operating a robust regulatory system to monitor and manage the sale and use of pesticides across the state. DPR’s work includes registering all pesticides sold or used in California, conducting scientific evaluation of pesticides to assess and mitigate potential harm to human health or the environment, investing in innovative research to encourage the development and adoption of integrated pest management tools and practices, monitoring for pesticides in the air and water, conducting outreach to ensure pesticide workers, farmworkers and local communities have access to safety information, and enforcing pesticide regulations in coordination with 55 County Agricultural Commissioners and their 500 field inspectors.