Join us for the sixth year of the Rural Resilience Webinar Series, where we’re growing our ranching and rural community’s financial, ecological, and social resilience with experienced speakers and actionable insights.
This free, four-part series will tackle key topics designed to support ranchers and rural residents:
February 19 – Ranch Water: Low-Tech, High-Impact Restoration
Sometimes the simplest solutions have the biggest impact. Paul Jones with Tomichi Creek Ecosystem Services will explore Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration, a hands-on approach to rebuilding natural water systems. Learn how mimicking beaver dams can improve water retention, restore riparian function, and boost drought resilience using minimal materials and practical techniques that bring lasting benefits to your land and livestock.
More about Paul: He started his career with the Colorado Division of Wildlife in July 1992 as a District Wildlife Manager (Game Warden). His first District the Littleton District, where he worked until the spring of 1995, when he transferred to the Gunnison East District. There as part of his biological duties, he was assigned as the CDOW representative on the Gunnison Sage Grouse Working Group, the first collaborative sage-grouse working group in the west. In 2001, he lateraled into the Habitat Biologist Position for Area 16, which morphed into the Conservation Biologist position when the Habitat Section ceased to exist. In that role, he negotiated and acquired eight CDOW conservation easements, five State Wildlife Areas, and assisted with multiple third-party conservation easements permanently protecting over 15,000 acres of important habitat for the Gunnison sage-grouse in the Gunnison and North Fork Basins. He also helped develop the template language for the umbrella Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances (CCAA) for the Gunnison sage-grouse, which helped protect habitat for the species on 40 private ranches. In 2006, took the Aquatic Conservation Biologist position for the Southwest Region. In that position, he worked with the Three Species (round tail chub flannel mouth and bluehead suckers), Rio Grande sucker and chub, and boreal toads until he retired In 2018. Since that time, he has started his own consulting company, Tomich Creek Ecosystem Services, and focuses his work on wet meadow restoration, and those gullied systems that Dave Rosgen once said were too flashy to restore.
Each session includes a 60-minute presentation followed by a 30-minute Q&A, allowing you to engage directly with our expert speakers.
Cost: FREE!
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain practical knowledge and connect with others dedicated to building resilient ranching and rural communities.
Pre-registration is required—Zoom link will be emailed upon registration.
The Zoom link is the same for all four webinars.
(PLEASE NOTE: You will be registering for the entire series. It is not necessary to register for each webinar separately.)