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.
 

We will discuss the different factors for restoration on public and private lands, engineering and design considerations, integrating restoration with disaster mitigation and what it looks like to restore a watershed at scale.