Session Coordinators:
Jay Stallman, Stillwater Sciences
Ann Willis, American Rivers, California Regional Director
 

Habitat restoration and conservation across working lands is a critical component to resilient, landscape-scale recovery of listed and at-risk anadromous salmonid populations. Working lands encompass a large percentage of critical habitat, which presents unique challenges and opportunities for scaling conservation work beyond isolated refuges within public lands and other high value protected areas. This session features large-scale, multifaceted, and interdisciplinary habitat restoration and conservation efforts on working lands from the semi-arid middle and upper Klamath basin to the heavily forested outer North Coast Ranges and temperate stream estuary ecotone in north coastal river valleys. Topics include emerging science; creative technical approaches to planning and design; avenues for stakeholder engagement; cooperative agreements between private landowners, tribes, and public agencies; and funding and permitting mechanisms unique to habitat restoration on working landscapes.