Mark your calendars! The Sierra Fund is pleased to announce our fourth biennial conference, Reclaiming the Sierra 2017: Headwaters Resiliency, to be held May 8-9 at California State University, Sacramento. The conference will provide a forum for leaders in science and policy to collaborate on a vision of headwaters management to promote the resiliency of natural and human resources in California’s altered landscapes and beyond.
A call for abstracts will open September 7, 2017. Consideration will be given to abstracts that address strategies for headwaters resiliency through cutting edge science, forward thinking policy and state of the art technology. Themes include the following:
- Headwaters Contaminant Source Reduction
- Mercury Exposure Abatement Strategies
- Management Actions for Multiple Ecosystem Benefits
- Policies to Promote Responsible Land Use
Click here for a more detailed description of each theme.
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