Field Tour Coordinator: Jarrad Fisher, San Mateo Resource Conservation District

 

Field tour participants will see examples of a range of restoration projects in the lower Pescadero watershed, including floodplain restoration, off-stream farm water storage, instream riparian habitat enhancement, and a dredge project that restored a stream channel and fish passage. We will visit a relatively unconstrained site owned by a conservation landowner as well as a highly-constrained site spanning dozens of private landowners. We will discuss how we navigate trade-offs, balance permit and funding requirements, reconcile diverse partner and landowner needs and concerns, and the role of engineering, risk management... and reality.