Past Webcasts

Fuels to Flows: Bringing nature-based stewardship to the headwaters

(11am CT, 10am MT, 9am PT)

What might it take to “change the rules” and focus on utilizing low-tech process-based restoration (LTPBR) techniques, such as “gully stuffing,” to better steward hydrologic and ecologic processes for upland systems? Join us for this episode to learn about the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center and their Fuels to Flows Campaign, which advances climate-smart, nature-based restoration solutions at the nexus of fire and water. OAEC’s approach advocates for the reintegration of fire and “fuel” load management with the “flows” of the carbon, water and life cycles. Created in California as a collaborative approach to the critical need to restore water to the landscape and improve forest resilience to fire, Brock Dolman will share project case studies and 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, regardless of the need for fire management.

Guest

Brock Dolman

Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

WATER, RCD/Permaculture & Wildlands Program Director

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 act as co-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.