Join the Cross-Watershed Network (XWN) for our first peer-to-peer Riparian Restoration Workshop, hosted by the Verde Watershed Restoration Coalition in Cottonwood, AZ! The workshop is free. Participants will experience two days (September 10th & 11th) in the classroom and the field along the beautiful Verde River, focusing on peer-to-peer information exchange and training in the […]
Join two panels of foresters, ecologists, and alternative energy specialists in exploring: •The High Park Fire: ecology, restoration, & effects on the Foothills watershed, •Homeowners efforts creating energy efficient/renewable energy living in these peaks to plains areas, •How these factors influence restoration and sustainable decision-making in our communities! The High Park Fire Tour scheduled […]
Society for Ecological Restoration Fifth World Conference on Ecological Restoration Abstract submission deadline: May 1, 2013 Early-bird registration deadline: July 15, 2013 For more information: www.ser2013.org
Management of forests in the West is occurring in the face of changing climate and shifting disturbance factors like bark beetles and fire. In some locations, aspen stands are declining and bark beetles are causing large-scale conifer mortality. The 2013 Restoring the West Conference will bring scientists, landowners, and managers together to focus on using […]
Please join us for the M.S. defense of CeRSER Scholarship Awardee Stephanie Barr on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 8am Colorado State University, Natural Resources building room 100 Optimal seed mixtures and seeding rates for restoration of surface disturbances on Colorado Shortgrass Steppe The discovery of oil and gas resources over the last decade has […]
The Colorado State University School of Global Environmental Sustainability presents a panel discussion: Planetary restoration: is there a road map for restoration of sustainable ecosystems? Panelists: Mark Paschke, CSU Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Chuck Rhoades, US Forest Service Michael Gooseff, CSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Moderated by John Calderazzo, SoGES […]
The Role of Fire in Shortgrass Rangelands On November 21 at 1pm MST, Dr David Augustine, Landscape Ecologist with the USDA-ARS, will be discussing shortgrass fire ecology history, and effects on habitat, grazing patterns, and restoration. This webinar is being co-sponsored by the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network, the Great Plains Fire Science Exchange, and […]
The Environmental Education Media Project will be present a film screening of What If We Change Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 2 pm Rawlins Library, Ryals Room (4th Floor) in Pueblo, Colorado Discussion to follow screening with John D. Liu, Environmental Education Media Project director/filmmaker/soil scientist
The next Central Rockies SER chapter meeting will be Wednesday Dec 4 from 12 to 1pm. There will be 3 different ways to participate: 1) call-in option (970-491-2607), 2) in-person at CSU, or 3) in-person at Great Ecology in Denver. Lots of important and exciting things to discuss. In fact it’s SOOO important we’re having two […]
Mark your calendars! The next Central Rockies chapter meeting will be held on January 23 from 12 pm to 1 pm at Colorado State University (Forestry building room 114). If you can't make it in person, please join by phone (970.491.2609). Tentative meeting agenda: 1) Secretary report (approval of past minutes) 2) Treasure report 3) […]
Please join us on January 30, 2014, as the Central Rockies chapter of SER hosts Ecology and Hydrology of Fires and Floods: Applied Science in a Changing Landscape featuring Steven Yochum, State Hydrologist and Jonas Feinstein, State Forester of the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) at New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins.
Mark your calendars for the next free pub talk sponsored by the Central Rockies chapter of SER. Wildfire in the Colorado Front Range: Using tree rings to reconstruct fire history and lessons learned from the Fourmile Canyon Fire Meredith Gartner, CU-Boulder Join us March 5th at The Lazy Dog Tavern (1346 Pearl Street, […]
