Training

See also: Central Coast Rangeland Coalition, Sustainable Human Systems

Twice a year, the Central Coast Rangelands Coalition (CCRC) meets to hear about late-breaking news and science affecting the sustainability of rangelands along California’s central coast.  These meeting present excellent and rare opportunities to learn from leading conservation and land management groups, ranchers, biological consultants, regulatory agencies, private land owners, businesspeople, and many others who are actively pursuing more sustainable rangeland stewardship.

The Coalition met on Thursday October 15, 2009 8:30-5:30 for their fall membership meeting at the Coyote Grange and in the afternoon for a field trip to the base of Coyote Ridge.  Agenda items included results of the CCRC's 2009 spring monitoring program, a presentation from a researcher on recent results of projects helping improve sustainable rangeland management, and a panel discussion on how to best face some of the emerging issues facing rangeland managers.  The field trip featured conservation lands managers including ranchers and public lands agency personnel discussing how they were working together to create real change on the ground.