What if you organized a Symposium on resiliency and everyone actually showed up? The Andersen Valley Resilient Lands Symposium was a great success. With over 130 participants from all walks of work and life in and around the Navarro River Watershed put their thinking caps on and “thought like a watershed” while being provoked by an amazing list of presenters and presentations. The big question, of course, was what does “resiliency” mean to Anderson Valley and how we, as a local community, can define and build our own best management practices to conserve the watershed resources and the rural lifestyle that makes Anderson Valley so unique.
Thanks to our supporting partner The Mendocino Land Trust, the Symposium was streamed live so you can watch and listen to the entire proceedings or only those presentations / panel sessions that are of interest to you. Just click on these URL's:
Speaker Biographies: You can view and download short biographies for each speaker at the Symposium here;
Purpose and Goals: Additional background information about the Symposium may be found here.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Below is an overview of the program with links so you can watch/listen to the presentations at your convenience.
Welcome from Congressman Jarred Huffman, US House District XX video here.
Welcome from the Organizing Committee (video coming soon)
Yoriko Kishimoto, President, Anderson Valley Land Trust
Sarah Wuethrich, President, Anderson Valley Winegrowers Association
Linda MacElwee, Navarro River Resource Center / Mendocino County Resource Conservation District
Invocation: Ronald W. Lincoln. Sr. Round Valley Pomo (video coming soon)
Keynote Speakers
Obi Kaufmann, Conservationist, Author, and Artist (slides here) (video coming soon)
Brock Dolman, Senior Biologist at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (video coming soon)
A Young Voice and Perspective: Ananda Mayne (video here)
A “Flyover Watershed Perspective” of Anderson Valley: its soils, water, carbon, forests, vineyards, orchards, housing, and general plan and zoning designations). Patrick Miller, FASLA (slides here) (video coming soon)
Panel Session #1: State of the Valley - Our Watershed: Valley Hydrology, Salmon, Biodiversity (video coming soon)
Chair and Presenter: Linda MacElwee (slides here)
Panelists and topics:
Mike Jones, Ph.D, UCCE Forest advisor: Healthy and resilient forests (slides here)
Adina Merenlender, Ph.D, Professor of Cooperative Extension in Conservation Science at UC Berkeley: Biodiversity and wildlife corridors (slides here)
Monty Schmitt, Senior Project Director with The Nature Conservancy: Salmon recovery and collaborative water management (slides here)
Christopher Woltemade, Ph.D,Prunuske Chatham, Inc: State of the Navarro River and hydrology (slides here)
Panel Session #2: Anderson Valley 2035 - Strategies for Sustainability, including strategies for sustainable water demand and supply (video coming soon)
Chair: Barbara Goodell
Panelists and topics:
Kyle Farmer, Magruder Ranch: Climate resilient ranching
Mary Mayeda, North Coast Forester for NCRS: Climate resilient forests
Emily Winfield, North Coast Regional Soil Hub Coordinator: Climate beneficial/regenerative farming
Steve Wood, Architect, AIA: Sustainable community
Panel #3 Session: Stories from Anderson Valley and Nearby: Coming Home to Place - Taking steps individually and as an Anderson Valley community (video coming soon)
Chair: Nancy Hornor
Panelists and topics:
· Norman Kobler: Vineyard Manager/Owner, Philo Vineyard Solutions - evolving practices and adaptations for vineyards
· Tim Bates, Owner/Manager, The Apple Farm, Philo: evolving practices and adaptations on a three-generation family-run organic apple farm
· Corine Pearce, Native California basketweaver - Traditional cultural knowledge and practices; Keeping native habitats healthy and keeping cultural traditions alive
· Andres Avila, Chief, Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department: Trends in local fire conditions and preparations/good fire and prescribed burn associations (slides here)
Closing
Closing Speaker: Brock Dolman, Senior Biologist at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center