Session Coordinators: Carrie Monohan, Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians; Ben Cook, Trout Unlimited; and Karen Pope, Pacific Southwest Research Station USDA

 

Process Based Restoration (PBR) engages dynamic ecological processes and removes constraints to those processes to encourage ecosystems to thrive and recover from disturbance. The theory and application of PBR continues to evolve and grow from site-level to landscape-scale partnerships ready to tackle increasingly intense and variable disturbance regimes. As PBR seeks to work at effective spatial and temporal scales, the PBR community realizes the need to exchange information and collaborate with a broad contingent with expertise at implementing multi-generational ecological and cultural stewardship models at broad spatial scales. New, increasingly variable disturbance regimes require expansive multi-disciplinary and multi-generational collaborations to work at spatial and temporal watershed scales including: innovative techniques for working with onsite materials in low- and high-energy stream reaches to restore resilient hydrologic regimes; practices for working within forests and other upland areas such as beneficial fire; data fluencies and improved prioritization strategies for realizing multiple and multiplying benefits; and integrated scientific approaches for monitoring multivariate long-term responses to both disturbance and restoration. This session invites real-world examples of collaborations employing these toolsets to work across broad spatial and temporal scales to promote ecological uplift and resilience.