New Workshop – California Desert Summit

WORKSHOP

New Defend the Desert Event, California Desert Summit: Experts Discuss Today’s Critical Issues

Date: TBD
Register to attend: info@desertcoalition.org

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Join the California Desert Coalition and the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment for the California Desert Summit, a hybrid presentation, to learn about strategies to protect desert wildlife and plants from the threat of California’s new climate change planning that focuses on industrial scale renewable energy development. Non-profit leaders will help forum participants develop strong advocacy strategies to protect the places we love and shape the outcome of land use decisions.

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Join the California Desert Coalition and the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment for the California Desert Summit, a hybrid presentation, to learn about strategies to protect desert wildlife and plants from the threat of California’s new climate change planning that focuses on industrial scale renewable energy development. Non-profit leaders will help forum participants develop strong advocacy strategies to protect the places we love and shape the outcome of land use decisions.

**Don’t miss keynote speaker Kristeen Penrod of SC Wildlands, prominent author of wildlife connectivity mapping, i.e., “California Desert Connectivity Project.” http://www.scwildlands.org/reports/ALinkageNetworkForTheCaliforniaDeserts.pdf

Presenters:

• Dr. Tim Krantz, Environmental Scientist, Professor Emeritus, and retired planning commissioner will review CEQA, a powerful tool for citizen advocacy.
• Kristeen Penrod, Director, Director of SC Wildlands will present on the importance of Wildlife Corridors and their role in desert focus areas (DFAs), zones designated for renewable energy development.
• Moises Cisneros, Sierra Club will speak about California 30×30 vision and the ad-hoc coalition he leads, the Inland Desert Working Group that is developing a desert view of that planning.
• Frazier Haney, Executive Director, The Wildlands Conservancy will give a short update on the Joshua Tree legislation, an alternative to the State’s threatened listing decision and also a report on the BLM’s modifications of the Desert Renewable Energy and Conservation Plan (DRECP)

This event will address the absence of public information about current planning and decision-making efforts regarding climate change land use in the desert. Curated experts will report on these planning efforts especially regarding renewable energy decisions being quietly made. The intent of the summit is to prepare and empower citizens to participate in the shaping of these decisions that impact their communities and the guarding of the future integrity of the desert.

The Summit is free of charge, but consider supporting programs like this one. GIVE today.