Defining and Delineating Maritime Chaparral on California's Central Coast

This workshop will focus on defining the threatened maritime chaparral community, which is protected by many coastal counties and the California Coastal Commission. There has been some confusion about what constitues maritime chaparral, and how best to delineate it. We hope that this workshop will help.

On June 12th, the Coastal Training Program will convene some of the leading authorities on this subject in a workshop that is designed... [MORE]

See also: Maritime Chaparral, Habitat Restoration

CONTACT:
Grey Hayes
grey@elkhornslough.org
(831) 274-8700

SPONSORED BY:

Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program

DESCRIPTION

This workshop will focus on defining the threatened maritime chaparral community, which is protected by many coastal counties and the California Coastal Commission. There has been some confusion about what constitues maritime chaparral, and how best to delineate it. We hope that this workshop will help.

On June 12th, the Coastal Training Program will convene some of the leading authorities on this subject in a workshop that is designed so that attendees will leave with a better understanding of:

1) the distribution of maritime vs. more inland chaparral
2) the current science defining maritime chaparral habitat
3) plant species indicative of maritime chaparral
4) rare and narrowly endemic species found in maritime chaparral habitat
5) ways to best delineate maritime chaparral
6) how agencies such as the California Coastal Commission, California Fish and Game, and coastal counties protect maritime chaparral

We will have presentations by:

Todd Keeler-Wolf,Senior Vegetation Ecologist, Wildlife and Habitat Data
Analysis Branch,California Department of Fish and Game

Mike Vasey, manzanita authority and teacher at San Francisco State. Mike is now working on his doctorate at UC Santa Cruz on maritime chaparral distribution and ecology

Jonna Engel, Ecologist, California Coastal Commission

Deborah Hillyard, Environmental Scientist, California Department of Fish and Game

Jeff Main, Senior Planner, Monterey County Planning Department

With luck, vegetation ecologist John Sawyer, professor at Humboldt State University will also join us.

We are also currently working with a few private consultants who are familiar the difficult issues in defining and delineating maritime chaparral.

The vision is for a small workshop that is conducive to a both learning and
a discussion.

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Submit a question on this subject and we'll provide an answer. grey@elkhornslough.org