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Friday, February 23, 2024

8:00am – 3:30pm

It Takes a Community – Ranchers, Land & Neighbors, too!

Tentative

8:00 DOORS OPEN FOR REGISTRATION, REFRESHMENTS

9:00 CONVENING by Bre Owens and Stephanie Larson, CRCC board members

STATUS of CONSERVED LANDS AND LAND CONVERSION

CONSERVATION ECONOMICS – Learning from Experiences with Conservation Easements

WHAT IS A STEWARDSHIP ECONOMY? How do we build them? Interview with Laurel Harkness, Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition and Staci Heaton, Rural County Representatives of California

RANCHING AND COMMUNITY

YOU JUST CAN’T SEE THEM FROM THE ROAD – Documentary trailer by California Rangeland Trust

LUNCH provided by SAN JOAQUIN STANISLAUS CATTLEWOMEN

INTRODUCING CalGLC – Alex Karol, Coordinator, California Grazing Land Coalition

CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES of CONSERVATION EASEMENTS, a panel

PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS, Point Blue Conservation Science

PATHWAYS TO STEWARDSHIP ECONOMICS – Linking education and empathy to empowering peoples, place and profits.

Jared Talley, Boise State University, Kris Hulvey, Working Lands Conservation, Nathan Sayre, UC Berkeley

We hope to see you at another event later this year!

Most presentations will be published on the website after this event.