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The Canyon Country Working Group will be hosting a 2nd annual gathering of regional restoration specialists and affiliated partners on February 23, 2022 in Moab, UT, after our necessary pause during the heart of the pandemic. We are very excited to bring everyone together for this free meeting to discuss restoration projects and provide space for networking.
The theme for the 2022 CCWG meeting will be RADical Restoration: Learning from Successes & Failures. Presenters will discuss restoration research and management efforts pertaining to four common focal areas: 1) Recreation and public land use 2) Overgrazing and rangeland degradation, 3) Woodland deterioration encompassing altered fire regimes and widespread invasive species, and 4) Reclamation on lands impacted by energy development. Speakers will highlight what can be learned from both their restoration successes and the occasional but inevitable restoration failures.
In breakout groups, there will be opportunities for everyone to share their own ideas and discuss new directions for restoration, including how the “RAD” (Resisting, Accepting, or Directing) decision-making framework can help us manage complex landscape challenges and inevitable ecosystem changes.
We would love to have you at the event! Please pass on the word to colleagues as well.
If you can make it, please help us plan by RSVPing and completing this very simple and brief Survey
Happy Holidays,
We’re really looking forward to seeing everyone in 2022!
Canyon Country Working Group organizers
Michala Phillips PostDoc Fellow with U.S. Geological Survey, Moab UT
Nichole Barger Professor in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dept. University of Colorado, Boulder CO
Erika Geiger Station Manager, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab UT
Kristina Young Extension Assistant Professor, Utah State University, Moab UT
Becky Mann Biologist with U.S. Geological Survey, Moab UT