June 20, 2018
Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/20/2018
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Location
Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation & Open Space District
Categories
Sonoma County Ag + Open Space, North Coast Resource Partnership, California Natural Resources Agency, California Air Resources Board, California Department of Food and Agriculture, and California Environmental Protection Agency invite you to participate in a regional public meeting on the development of California’s Natural and Working Lands Climate Change Implementation Plan in Santa Rosa, CA.
Background
The 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan Update commits the State to finalizing a goal for carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions on natural and working lands by September 2018. The 2030 Natural and Working Lands Climate Change Implementation Plan (NWL Plan) will further describe this GHG goal and provide a blueprint to achieve it through state-funded conservation, restoration, and management activities.
The NWL Plan will detail regional targets for a variety of state-funded conservation, restoration, and management practices that sequester carbon, such as wetland and meadow restoration, fuel reduction and improved management in forests, soil conservation on rangelands, and avoiding land use conversion from development. These acreage targets will be run through California-developed carbon models to project cumulative GHG benefits of these activities by 2030, by region and statewide.
Purpose
Regional meetings are intended to help state agencies gain feedback on opportunities and priorities and refine draft acreage targets for conservation, management, and restoration practices to be modeled and included in the final NWL Plan. These workshops seek engagement with landowners and stakeholders from Resource Conservation Districts, land trusts, nonprofits, academic institutions, NGOs, and local, regional, federal, and tribal governments, with the goals of:
- Ensuring that draft regional acreage targets for resource management are inclusive of significant local plans, goals, and programs, particularly regional multi-partner or landscape-scale plans; and
- Better understanding local priorities and stakeholder needs for successful regional implementation of the NWL Plan through 2030.
We ask that you please bring information on existing plans for conservation, restoration, and management priorities and targets as described above to inform our discussion. After the workshop, we will continue to solicit this information before regional targets are finalized for the Plan.
RSVP
This event is FREE, but we do require an RSVP for planning purposes. Click here to register >>
For more detailed information, please follow the link to the NWL Plan Concept Paper. If you have questions or comments regarding this workshop, please contact Emma Johnston at emma.johnston@resources.ca.gov or 916-651-7591.