Training

See also: Central Coast Rangeland Coalition, Sustainable Human Systems

California is home to a unique combination of working landscapes and open spaces.  This combination of features can put livestock and carnivores in conflict.  The upcoming CCRC workshop seeks to generate tools for mitigating these conflicts by focusing on non-lethal preventative strategies for successfully raising livestock alongside carnivores.  We will be hearing from livestock operators, agency personnel, and biologists, who will give us insight into carnivore natural history and practical solutions for avoiding conflict.  We hope you will bring your own questions and constructive strategies to share with the group.   

Objectives

·   Increase understanding of carnivore natural history and the broader context for livestock-carnivore conflict.

·   Explore new approaches to existing tools.  

·   Discuss the nuts and bolts of applying preventative strategies to your own unique situation.

Topics To Discuss

·   Puma and coyote natural history

·   Livestock guarding animals

·   Electric fences and turbo-fladry

·   Flexible stocking management approaches

·   Grazing agreements and compensation programs

·   California Department of Fish and Wildlife tools for carnivore losses

Important Registration Notes:

Please note -you can pre-register via this website, but your registration will not be finalized until we receive your registration fee of $30. Payment can be either in the form of a credit card or a check made payable to the Elkhorn Slough Foundation and sent to:

Elkhorn Slough Foundation

ATTN: Grey Hayes

1700 Elkhorn Road

Watsonville, CA 95076

Deadline for payment is 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, 2015.  If we have not received your payment at that time, your place may be forfeit to someone on our waiting list.  Cancellations prior to that date will receive a refund of payment minus a $10 processing fee.  We cannot refund any money if you cancel after March 24.  We reserve the right to cancel the workshop prior to March 26, 2015; in that event, we will give full refunds.

We do not allow third party registration- register only yourself!  Registration is email sensitive; registering others frequently results in cancellation, missed communication, and other issues.

We also do not allow registration 'trading,' even to persons within the same organization. 

Please let us know as soon as you know if you have registered and cannot attend as there is usually an extensive waiting list for our trainings and we use substantial funds to subsidize workshop expenses, helping to make them more affordable.