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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:

• Balancing fire risk and environmental impacts

  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

• Effects of changing fire regimes in chaparral

  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

• Strategies & goals for stewarding chaparral: Case-studies from the field

  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

• Chaparral restoration: approaches and lessons learned

  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

Click on the image below to view a PDF of the poster.

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Below, you can find a one-page summary of the Chaparral Symposium, which includes key takeaways and insights from the four sessions and the field trip.

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Click here for a map of the conference location and venue.

A list of recommended hotels is available here.

Parking is available in the lot adjacent to the Swanson Center and will be complimentary for registered attendees. We will provide a code for free parking closer to the symposium date.

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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.