Restoration Policy, Planning, and Partnering

Target Audience:

Anyone interested in planning, designing, or implementing habitat restoration.

Summary and Objectives:

This course provides restoration practitioners a foundation in restoration policy and planning by covering the federal authorities for restoration; compliance requirements, including the National Environmental Policy Act; general principles of restoration science; and the steps involved in developing a restoration plan within the context of landscape-scale conservation and climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

Learn more about climate change . Case studies will exemplify building partnerships and other key concepts of the course.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe federal authorities supporting habitat restoration.
• Explain fundamental concepts of restoration ecology.
• Develop successful partnerships and communicate effectively with partners and stakeholders.
• Prepare a framework for a restoration plan, developing alternatives in a landscape context.
• Illustrate the iterative and adaptive nature of restoration planning given a watershed exercise.

Competencies Addressed: 

Landscape Ecology - Basic, Planning and Evaluating - Basic, Restoration Ecology - Basic, Partnering - Basic