Join the Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition in Spring 2023 for the Southeast Alaska Watershed Workshop: Collaboration for the Future. This multi-part event will feature a series of 4 webinars, culminating in a 3-day workshop in Juneau Alaska.

Tune-in to work with agency officials, restoration practitioners, and tribal groups to build collaboration for the future.

In-person event will be held at the Juneau Yacht Club. The Yacht Club is walking distance from downtown and a shuttle service will be available. We encourage carpooling.

Webinar topics subject to change!

Workshop Events will focus on 5 major thematic areas:

1.) Assessment, Project development, and Stewardship – With an influx of money, new staff, and new partnerships into the region, there is the opportunity to do a lot of good work. But a good restoration practitioner knows that the “devil is in the details.” The goal of this thematic area is to help new practitioners (new tribal work crew/forest partnerships, new agency staff, and new NGO’s) learn how to prioritize and carry out their work and let those with experience showcase their work and share a few secret tips.

2.) Collaboration for the future – A successful project has many components, and this includes the project’s broader impact in the arena and Co-stewardship and Community collaboration. The goal of this session is to showcase examples that can bolster collaborative and co-stewardship efforts and lift up our tribal and community leaders.

3.) Forests For the Future- Decades of timber management in our region have left hundreds of thousands of acres of forest in a young-growth, even-aged, and biologically simplified condition. Understanding and altering these conditions sets the stage for recovery of lost ecological functions and values.

4.) Restoration in a changing climate - Climate change is accelerating and has the potential to affect the success of restoration efforts - at both local and regional scales. The goal of this session is to discuss how the changing climate is/should/could affect restoration actions, what data and tools currently exist to support decision-making, and what more is needed to conduct climate-smart restoration in SEAK.

5.) Infrastructure, access, and resource stewardship- Engaging engineering groups with partnering resource stewardship, infrastructure, and resiliency.

Experts from agencies, NGOs, and tribal organizations will present on these thematic areas. In discussing these themes, the goals of the workshop are:

• Connect Tribal, Community, and Agency practitioners involved in watershed stewardship, restoration, and co-stewardship.

• Build capacity of community and tribal groups, particularly new tribally run Forest Partnerships and community-led watershed efforts.

• Encourage collaboration between the climate & aquatic resource scientists, silviculture, and restoration practitioners.

• Create new venues, programs, and connections that will result in continued action.

Register today to save your spot for the conference event! Travel stipends are available - contact khrystl@sawcak.org for more info.

The conference will be streamed via Zoom at this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87159459283

Full Agenda below! Hard copies will be available at the event.