Session Coordinators:
Carrie Monohan PhD., The Sierra Fund
Karen Pope PhD, Pacific Southwest Research Station USDA
Damion Ciotti, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Kate Lundquist, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Kevin Swift, Swiftwater Design
Garrett Costello, Symbiotic Restoration

The Cal-PBR network is a diverse collaborative of natural resource professionals that promote process-based restoration approaches to increase the capacity of degraded river and stream ecosystems to self-heal. These projects prioritize channel evolution and dynamism over stabilization measures and allow present day natural processes and climate conditions to create and maintain the restored habitat. Common goals focus on water and sediment retention, biodiversity and vegetation productivity, fire resiliency, and climate change adaption. This session will focus on projects that look at designing, permitting and implementing process based restoration projects to restore incised and degraded streams, forest health and remove system constraints to increase ecosystem resiliency in a changing climate.