California Society for Ecological Restoration May 2024 |
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In this newsletter, you will find: Join SERCAL Colorado River Project Thank you, Sponsoring Members! Post-Conference Wrap-Up Your Input is Essential: Surveys for GRASS Net and Native Seed Sourcing Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Salmon Restoration Here's Some Good News! WFH Poll Results Our Partner Organizations are the Best! Check Out These Job Opportunities |
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California has agreed to make lasting cuts to the amount of water it uses from the Colorado River. This comes after strong efforts were made by a variety of tribes and other organizations to fight against the drought being caused by California's use of the river's resources.
"The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the seven states in the Colorado River Basin, as well as 30 tribes and Mexico, are negotiating a plan to protect the river after a decades-long megadrought depleted flows and left key reservoirs Lake Mead and Lake Powell in danger of running dry."
"Under the Lower Basin states’ proposal, which would take effect after 2026 and potentially last decades, California would forfeit about 10% of its allocation in most conditions, with Nevada giving up 17% and Arizona 27%. Mexico, if it agreed, would reduce its use by 17%. The reductions would apply when a range of reservoirs along the river are between 38% and 58% full. They would conserve a total of about 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year."
For more information on replacement alternatives and other bureaucratic issues, read more at this link
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Thank you, 2024 Sponsoring Members!
With your support of SERCAL, you are facilitating the growth and sustainability of a collaborative, knowledge-based, forward-thinking industry that is leading the effort to create and sustain a robust California native landscape for wildlife, plants, and people. We greatly appreciate the support and camaraderie of the following organizations and invite your organization to join in this important effort!
Valley Oak Sponsors
Arroyo Willow Sponsors
Sustaining Business Members Sustaining Individual Members Scott Dreher | Lisa Paterson | Emily Zefferman Our Cadre of Torchbearers for the Next Generation And the continued and generous support of Victor Schaff |
Post-Conference Wrap-Up!
Keep an eye out for our special post-conference wrap-up message! We'll go over the highlights and anything else you won't want to miss about the SERCAL 2024 conference. |
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Restoration |
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California has awarded $50 million in grants to a variety of projects to support salmon populations and habitat restorations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and statewide.
"The grants from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will support 15 projects as part of the $200 million it is distributing for restoration, including $100 million for protecting salmon against drought and climate change, the department said in a press statement. "
"These new investments are a key component to how we will restore California's salmon population for the long-term, and we're doing it in partnership with the local communities and tribes who have been dealing with these issues for generations," Newsom said in a prepared statement."
"Timing is everything and we have an opportunity to address the unrelenting threat of extreme climate and weather patterns through supporting these projects," said CDFW Director Chuck Bonham in a statement. "This support and collaboration from the restoration community is ensuring the long-term sustainability of our natural resources for generations to come."
Read more here
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One year ago, the California Wildlife Conservation Board awarded Point Blue two block grants totaling $50 million to restore ecosystems on California’s working lands and Sierra meadows.This work is to be completed over the next four years.
Over the past year, Point Blue has "built new partnerships, dramatically increased the availability of funding for groups historically left out of restoration funding, broken ground on new projects, and so much more."
"Through a $26 million dollar investment in our community-based restoration efforts on working landscapes, WCB funding allowed us to launch the Roots Program. And through a $24.7 million investment in our leadership of the Sierra Meadows Partnership, the WCB is supporting our work to restore degraded mountain meadows across the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades of California."
"In San Luis Obispo we’re supporting a multi-collaborator restoration effort on an open space preserve with partners including a local tribe to restore a permanently-conserved working lands property through installing process-based beaver-dam analogs and planting upland trees."
Point Blue has achieved a wide swath of restoration successes over the past year.
Read more here
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The difference between where you’re working now and where you’d prefer to work seems pretty close, but... if you compare the totals of workplace and in the field work (how it used to be) and compare it to the totals from home and "wherever my laptop is" (how we had to negotiate work through Covid), there seems to be more weight on moving back to a more traditional work/field setting. What do you think?
If you haven’t taken the survey yet, it’s still up here! This link will show you how the conversation continues.
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Our Partner Organizations are the Best CNGA leads the popular Grasslands session at our conferences. Our organizations also offer a joint membership discount as well as discounted registrations to each other's events. Visit the California Native Grassland Association website for the latest updates!
Cal-IPC (the California Invasive Plant Council) is another important partner in restoring our native California landscapes. We offer discounts to each other's annual gatherings.
Cal-ERBA (the California Ecological Restoration Business Association) is a 501c6 organization that represents a growing sector of state businesses that specialize in delivery of high impact environmental outcomes.
California Association of Resource Conservation Districts is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to serving as a strong advocate, technical resource, and partner to the state's 96 RCDs so that they can be Relevant, Excellent, and Visible “go-to” hubs for conservation in their communities.
The Ecological Workforce Initiative is working to meet the workforce needs of the growing ecological restoration industry by training workers for living-wage careers that support both the economic vitality of our communities and the health of our environment.The UC Davis Graduate Program on Environmental Policy and Management provides advanced training in applying environmental science to real-world environmental policy and management issues focusing on building quantitative skills for practice-oriented careers in environmental policy and management.
Members of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) are able to earn CERP credits towards certification through SERCAL's annual conference.
The University of Wisconsin Press offers SERCAL members discounted subscriptions to Ecological Restoration and Native Plants Journal.
Are we missing a potential partner? Let us know! |
Post a Job | Find a Job
It's easy and it's free! Find a great job or an amazing new member of your team. Here are some of the most recent jobs posted to our website: - Senior Environmental Scientist (Specialist): Botanist - Sacramento/Northern California. CA State Parks. Application Filing Deadline: 05/06/2024.
- Soil Conservation Scientist I - Petaluma, CA. Point Blue Conservation Science. Application Filing Deadline: 05/10/2024.
- Senior Restoration Practitioner - Sacramento, San Francisco, or Remote within Northern CA. ICF. Application Filing Deadline: 05/13/2024.
- Senior Landscape Architect/Ecological Restoration Practitioner - Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Sacramento, CA, San Diego, CA, Remote, or Hybrid. ICF. Application Filing Deadline: 05/13/2024.
- Senior Coastal Adaptation Ecologist - Coastal California. Point Blue Conservation Science. Application Filing Deadline: 05/15/2024.
Find or post a job, a volunteer opportunity, or a Request for Proposals! |
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