Date: Saturday, March 5, 2022
Time: 10:00AM – 2:30PM
Instructor: Dr. Carla D’Antonio (Keynote)
Location: Virtual
After the Fires: Recovering California’s Wild Spaces
Registration required, no walk-ins.
General Admission: $25.00/ Students: Free with school ID
Visit the SB Botanic Garden website for more info and to register.
The Annual Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Conservation Symposium, established in 2012, is designed to address topics that are critical to environmental conservation in our region, as well as nationally and internationally. This year’s keynote speaker is Pritzlaff Conservation Awardee, Dr. Carla D’Antonio.
On March 5, 2022, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s annual Conservation Symposium will focus on what we can all do to help California wildlands recover after fire. Diverse native vegetation is essential for providing the slope stabilization, watershed protection, wildlife habitat, and other benefits that we rely on as humans – and we can all help by making sure that our wildlands don’t turn into big bare patches or a sea of weeds.
Get the scoop from eight regional experts on fire ecology, rare species recovery, weed control, and other habitat restoration work, as well as ways that we can all get engaged. Then get your questions answered in an all-speaker panel discussion. Join us as we present Dr. Carla D’Antonio with our Honorable John C. Pritzlaff Conservation Award for her top-notch science, inspiring teaching and mentorship, and dedicated conservation leadership. Our other speakers include Dr. Max Moritz, University of California Wildfire Specialist, and Dr. Nicole Molinari, Southern Province Ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service.