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Critical Linkages: The Bay Area and Beyond Symposiums
South and East Bay Linkages: June 26, 2012, 9:00 AM-3:00 PM Location: Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, 1661 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303
North Bay Linkages June 27, 2012, 9:00 AM-3:00 PM Location: Finley Community Center 2060 W. College Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
- The symposiums are free, lunch is provided, and a beer & wine social will follow both events.
The Critical Linkages: Bay Area And Beyond Project, working with regional scientists and incorporating the habitat and movement needs of over 60 species, has developed draft linkage designs for several priority landscape linkages associated with the San Francisco Bay Area, San Benito, Monterey, Mendocino and Lake Counties.
We need your help at these symposiums to:
- Receive input on the Draft Linkage Network developed for the region.
- Discuss implementation strategies and tools.
- Initiate implementation coalitions for each linkage.
Conservation practitioners, land managers, planners, regulators, landowners and interested citizens are encouraged to attend.
E-mail invitations will be sent in mid-May. Draft linkage maps and implementation strategies will be posted here for review at that time.
The Critical Linkages: The Bay Area and Beyond Project is developing focal species-based designs for several priority landscape linkages, implementation strategies, and a monitoring framework, and will also provide implementation tools to institutionalize support for a regional network of conserved lands. This comprehensive strategy is being developed by SC Wildlands through collaboration with scientists, planners, land and resource management agencies, wildlife agencies, transportation agencies, conservancies, and landowners.
Critical Linkages launched in 2010 with two habitat connectivity workshops where scientists, land managers and planners identified a suite of focal species to lay the biological foundation for linkage planning. The June symposiums will give interested stakeholders the opportunity to review and comment on the Draft Linkage Network.
The Critical Linkages project will fine tune the Conservation Lands Network to insure functional habitat connectivity both within the network and to regions north and south of the Bay Area. The linkages will added to the Conservation Lands Network Explorer in 2012.
For more information, visit the SC Wildlands website or contact Kristeen Penrod at (877) WILDLAND.
