The Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) seeks to “change the rules” with a focus on utilizing low-tech process-based restoration (LTPBR) techniques, such as “gully stuffing”, to restore hydrologic and ecologic processes to riverine systems. This webinar will introduce the OAEC’s Fuels to Flows Campaign, which advances climate-smart nature-based restoration solutions at the nexus of fire and water. This approach advocates for the reintegration of fire and “fuel” load management with the “flows” of the carbon, water and life cycles. Created in the west as a collaborative approach to the critical need to restore water to the landscape and improve forest resilience to fire, Brock Dolman will share ample project case studies to demonstrate how the Fuels to Flows principles can become a framework for creative low-tech, cost-effective, hands-on solutions to a wide variety of restoration projects around North America, regardless of the need for fire management.
Brock Dolman, Wildlife Biologist & Restoration Ecologist, Co-founder, LLC Intentional Community & Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC)
Brock Dolman is a wildlife biologist and is internationally recognized as a restoration ecologist and renowned innovator in watershed management and Permaculture design. Brock integrates wildlife biology, native California botany and watershed ecology with education about regenerative human settlement design, ethno-ecology, and ecological literacy to engender societal transformation. In 1994 Brock co-founded the Sowing Circle, LLC Intentional Community & Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) where he continues to reside and act as director of OAEC’s Permaculture/Resilient Community Design Program, Wildlands Program and WATER Institute. He has taught Permaculture courses and consulted on regenerative project design and implementation in 20 countries and widely in the U.S. He has been active in promoting the idea of Bringing Back Beaver in California since the late 1990’s, which in part, has resulting in the creation of California Department of Fish & Wildlife’s Beaver Restoration Program. His latest effort, based on over 35 years of direct experience is OAEC’s Fuels to Flows Campaign. Brock graduated in 1992 with honors from the University of California Santa Cruz in Agro-Ecology and Conservation Biology.
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