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Native Revegetation: The Sustainable Erosion Control BMP
October 25th, 26th & 27th, 2009

The Western Chapter - International Erosion Control Association invites you to attend a Technology Transfer Training Workshop that will be addressing native revegetation technologies that are demonstrating promise for successfully re-establishing native plant growth on drastically disturbed soils located in a variety of climates and topography throughout the moisture-challenged American West. We intend to encourage Workshop presenters and attendees alike to challenge the merits of these more recent seeding/planting technologies, as well as conventional seeding technologies, in an effort to gain a more in-depth understanding as to where any one of these technologies and practices might be successfully implemented on a particular project site.

Never has there been a time when sound native plant establishment technologies and implementation expertise were more critically required to maximize the investment of our scarce restoration funds. Accordingly, pursuant to our Chapter mandate to provide quality training opportunities to our members and associated professionals, and in light of the current challenging economic times, WC-IECA is both underwriting and subsidizing this state-of-the-art Technology Transfer Training Workshop in the hope that as many members as possible are able to attend.

Attendees (drawn from both the ranks of those who attended the June San Diego and December Woodland Workshops, as well as welcome new arrivals) are encouraged to come armed with your questions, challenges, biases and with whatever pearls of enlightenment you are prepared to share. Even better, if you have questions as a result of what you heard during the previous Workshops, please email and we will do our best to incorporate such questions into the Agenda.

Who Should Attend
This Training Workshop is geared to accommodating individuals who already possess a reasonably advanced understanding of the challenges that typically face anyone embarking on re-establishing native plant growth in harsh environments. Our prime objective is to consolidate and build upon the knowledge that was presented at the San Diego & Woodland Technology Transfer Workshops, by continuing to both (a) lay the scientific foundation for what technologies are showing promise in the field; as well as (b) encouraging an interactive format between attendees and presenters in a good faith effort to promote greater depth of understanding as to why so many native revegetation efforts, initiated with great promise, fall short of anticipated goals.

Target audience includes project engineers, designers, academics, consultants and contractors with federal and state agency crossover.

Native Revegetation: Flyer and Registration Form Download the complete flyer and registration form in Acrobat® PDF format.
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