Join us for the 4th California Chaparral Symposium! This event will held at Cal-poly San Luis Obispo, and it will be the same energizing blend of science, management, and conservation as our prior symposia.
This year’s topics include:
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Chaparral: the social and ecological background with Nicole Molinari & Hugh Safford
What is “Maritime Chaparral” and how does its management pose novel conservation challenges? with Mike Vasey
Prescribed burning of Venturan coastal sage with Frank Davis
WUI Typologies: A multi-dimensional land classification for balancing fire risk reduction with natural resource conservation? with Alex Syphard
The Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program: A path to resilience for human communities shrubland landscapes with Max Moritz
Balancing Fuel Management Goals and the Ecological Impacts of Fuel Modification with Robert Fitch
CAL VTP demystified with Len Nielson
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Frequent fire in northern California chaparral reduces post-fire shrub regeneration and native plant diversity with Ashley Grupenhoff
Impact of Short Fire Return Intervals on Shrub Resilience: How Short is Too Short? with Jon Keeley
Predicting the impacts of changing fire regimes on a rare chaparral shrub, Morro manzanita with Claudia Tyler
Using the EcoServe Tool to quantify the impacts of fire on chaparral biomass and other ecosystem services with Emma Underwood & Charlie Schrader
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Fuels, fear and fire-followers: balancing human and ecological risk at Pinnacles National Pak with Amelia Ryan
Fire Management in Chamise Chaparral with Dave Erickson & Luke Bourgault
To burn or not to burn, that is the question… with Jeremy Zagarella
Names without specificity: Hat and Chaparral. How being specific when discussing apparel or California shrub communities’ interaction with fire is key with Jared Childress
Things we thought we knew: reexamining the relationship between remaining twig diameter and fire intensity with Kate Wilkin
Crushing Manzanitas to Save Them in the Santa Cruz Sandhills with Tim Hyland
Quantifying the Value of Fuelbreak Networks in Chaparral Landscapes with Matt Sloggy
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Diverse approaches to a complex problem: restoring woody plant diversity to degraded chaparral with Carla D’Antonio
Trait-offs in strategies: Matching plant functional traits to microsite conditions to maximize restoration survival with Shane Dewees
Drought limitations in restoring chaparral and coastal sage scrub species: An ecophysiological case study with Anna Jacobsen & Brandon Pratt
Time since fire impacts chaparral post-fire restoration success and seed bank recovery with Meg Kargul
Developing a postfire restoration framework for shrublands with Emma Underwood & Nicole Molinari
A list of recommended hotels is available here.
Please contact us if you’d like to support the symposium. We strive to make the even free or nearly free for attendees.
Click here for more information (agenda, videos, etc.) from the previous chaparral symposium.
