Dear Colleagues,
The California Natural Resources Agency, California Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and California Strategic Growth Council will be hosting regional public meetings on the development of California's Natural and Working Lands Climate Change Implementation Plan. Meetings will be held across the state beginning June 8 to June 28.
The 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan Update commits the State to finalizing a goal for carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions on natural and working lands by September 2018. The 2030 Natural and Working Lands Climate Change Implementation Plan (NWL Plan) will further describe this GHG goal and provide a blueprint to achieve it through state-funded conservation, restoration, and management activities.
The NWL Plan will detail regional targets for a variety of state-funded conservation, restoration, and management practices that sequester carbon, such as wetland and meadow restoration, fuel reduction and improved management in forests, soil conservation on rangelands, and avoiding land use conversion from development. These acreage targets will be run through California-developed carbon models to project cumulative GHG benefits of these activities by 2030, by region and statewide.
Regional meetings are intended to help state agencies gain feedback on opportunities and priorities and refine draft acreage targets for conservation, management, and restoration practices to be modeled and included in the final NWL Plan. These workshops seek engagement with landowners and stakeholders from Resource Conservation Districts, land trusts, nonprofits, academic institutions, NGOs, and local, regional, federal, and tribal governments, with the goals of:
1. Ensuring that draft regional acreage targets for resource management are inclusive of significant local plans, goals, and programs, particularly regional multi-partner or landscape-scale plans; and
2. Better understanding local priorities and stakeholder needs for successful regional implementation of the NWL Plan through 2030.
Participants are invited to share information on existing plans for conservation, restoration, and management priorities and targets as described above to inform the meeting's discussion.
Those interested in participating are requested to RSVP for in-person or remote attendance using the links below.
Sierra Nevada & Eastside June 8, 2018; 10am-12pm San Francisco Bay Area Tentative: June 18, 2018; 1pm-3pm * North Coast June 20, 2018; 10am-12pm South Coast & Mountains June 21, 2018; 10am-12pm | Klamath Cascade June 22, 2018; 10am-12pm Sacramento Valley & Delta Tentative; June 26, 2018; 1-3pm * Central Coast Tentative: June 27, 2018; 10am-12pm * San Joaquin Valley June 28, 2018; 2-4pm |
*Final meeting dates and times for tentative workshops will be posted as soon as they become available.
If you have questions or comments regarding this email or workshops, please contact Emma Johnston at the Natural Resources Agency at emma.johnston@resources.ca.gov or 916-651-7591.
Thank you.
Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)