The Annual Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Conservation Symposium, established in 2012, is designed to address conservation topics that are critical in our region and beyond. This year’s keynote speaker is Pritzlaff Conservation Awardee, Dr. Carla D’Antonio.  Join us on March 5, 2022, from 10 am to 2:30 pm for the 9th Annual Conservation Symposium, After the Fires: Recovering California’s Wild Spaces. We will explore how to help western wildlands recover after fire and hear from seven other regional experts on fire ecology, rare species recovery, weed control and other habitat restoration work, followed by an engaging panel discussion.

Dr. Carla D’Antonio (keynote) | When and why would we need post-fire restoration?

Dr. Nicole Molinari | Development of a post-fire restoration framework for southern California shrublands

Mauricio Gomez | Post-fire impacts on steelhead trout habitat and strategies for recovery

Dr. Aaron Ramirez and Michelle Wolfgang | Ecophysiological responses to fire and drought underlie climate resilience of bigcone douglas-fir

Mark Mendelsohn | Native and invasive plant responses to the 2018 Woolsey Fire (and what we did about it)

Dr. Josie Lesage | Post-fire mapping on the South Coast to inform habitat restoration

Stephanie Ma and Shane DeWees | Creating an ecological framework for chaparral restoration

Dr. Max Moritz | Building resilience to fire through the Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program

About Dr. Carla D’Antonio

Dr. Carla D’Antonio’s forward-thinking approach to ecology has simultaneously integrated theory with practical and on-the-ground conservation, habitat management, and restoration, and her ground-breaking work has been published in top journals like Science, Nature, and Ecology.

For more information and to register, visit http://www.sbbg.org/symposium2022