Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition

Join us for the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition Annual Meeting at Fallen Leaf Lake, CA / Tahoe, October 16-18. Still spots available, and few more days to register. Excited to hold space with colleagues and partners who care deeply for rural communities of the West and value the interdependencies of these communities with healthy and resilient landscapes. We'll be exploring the vision for rural western communities rooted in the stewardship economy. Register by October 8th to secure your spot! https://lnkd.in/ev65U49

Registration for RVCC's Annual Meeting closes on?Tuesday, October 8th! Join us October 16-18 for the RVCC?Annual Meeting at the lovely?Stanford Sierra Conference Center?at Fallen Leaf Lake (near South Lake Tahoe) for?timely policy insights, inspiring examples?of place-based innovation, and rural perspectives from across the West. RVCC's?Annual Meeting?provides an opportunity for attendees to connect, engage, inspire, and develop solutions with partners working on community-based resource management?and rural economic development across the West. https://lnkd.in/ev65U49

Housing is critical in advancing stewardship economies in rural communities across the west. This week, U.S. Senator John Barrasso, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), and Senators King and Daines, chairman and ranking member of the Subcommittee on National Parks respectively, introduced S. 5125, the?Land Manager Housing and Workforce Improvement Act. We thank the Senators for their leadership on this bipartisan housing bill. RVCC supports this bill, and we look forward to continued collaboration on attainable housing solutions in rural communities. https://lnkd.in/gDhcPZGw

Whether for complex wildfire, forest, water, or climate concerns, all-lands work is attracting non-traditional funding sources to place-based and collaborative efforts. This October, come learn about the innovative ways communities and organizations are building sustained funding models with new all-lands stewardship partners at our 20th Annual Meeting in South Lake Tahoe. ---> Our Annual Meeting agenda is now live! https://lnkd.in/dFxxYGQ5

Join us this Thursday for a #CXLFireChallenge webinar: The Fire Crisis & Challenge Themes! Discover how innovators can tackle the critical challenges of the fire crisis. In the first webinar of the series, we’ll explore the stewardship and management issues faced by rural and Tribal communities, and examine how Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and FireTech can drive impactful solutions. You’ll also gain valuable insights into the types of innovations we are seeking, and how your ideas can contribute to the Challenge. Featuring: - Shefali Juneja Lakhina, Founder, FireUp; Co-Founder, Wonder Labs - Saraya Hamidi, Indigenous Partnerships Manager,?Blue Forest; Cherokee Nation Citizen - Cole Jenson, Program Manager, Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition Moderated by: - Liam Torpy - Fire Grand Challenge Manager, Conservation X Labs - Caressa Nguyen - Community Outreach Lead, Conservation X Labs; Member of the Ione Band of Miwok Indians ??: Thursday, September 19, 2024 ?: 11:00 am. PT / 2:00 pm. ET ??: https://lnkd.in/e7iAvmfH Don't miss this chance to be part of the solution!

This year it feels more important than ever to bring together rural practitioners and decision makers for robust discussions, knowledge-sharing, and strategic planning. We are excited to connect communities in this live space to help shape the future of our rural stewardship economies. Reserve your spot today --> OCT 16-18 2024 Fallen Leaf Lake South Lake Tahoe, CA https://lnkd.in/ev65U49

Join us tomorrow, Thursday 9/12, 1-2p PT, as RVCC hosts another monthly call centered around the Stewardship Economy - an economy shaped by the need, and responsibility, to manage for the sustainability of both land and communities. It’s an informal discussion, all are welcome. Please bring insights and questions to share! We are holding space in the agenda to share stories of place?- we'd love to hear?what challenges and opportunities you?are seeing related to the?stewardship?economy?in the rural West. We’ll also explore: How is the Stewardship Economy framework distinct in relation to other economic frameworks? Diving into economic frameworks: values vs assets, capacity vs capital. How does the outdoor recreation economy fit within the Stewardship Economy context? Measuring "Sense of Place”: socioeconomic indicators Useful data resources Register for the Zoom meeting series here: https://lnkd.in/g9x7ypZh

By sharing your stories of collaboration, success, and lessons learned, we are able to better advocate for effective natural resource policies and support a robust stewardship economy. This October, we will convene in South Lake Tahoe and connect practitioners from all across the West for our 20th Annual Meeting. This 3-day knowledge sharing and strategizing event will help shape the future of our rural stewardship economies. We hope you'll join us and share some of your stories! --> https://lnkd.in/dFxxYGQ5

The preliminary agenda is LIVE for our upcoming 20th Annual Meeting, October 16-18! Join the conversation in our session discussions, policy round tables, panel discussions, and more. We are excited to gather for these three days of robust knowledge-sharing and strategizing with thought-leaders from around the West! https://lnkd.in/ev65U49

I woke up to wildfire smoke filled skies in Northern California, another headline about a rural sawmill closure in the West, plus more headlines about non-renewals of home insurance policies. Constant reminders of how urgently we need more wood utilization capacity in rural communities to support climate adaptation. In order to improve forest health and decrease the risk of catastrophic wildfire, proactive forest management is necessary which requires reduction of fuel loads and the removal of small diameter wood from Western forests. It’s time to get serious and strategic about creating an integrated infrastructure of community-scale sawmills. Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition flew into Washington DC a few weeks ago to meet with USFS Chief Moore and other USFS leadership for a conversation about rural communities, small-scale sawmill facilities, climate adaptation, and wildfire. We look forward to working with our federal agency and Congressional partners toward solutions that support both land stewardship and community well-being across the West. We also dropped in on the offices of Sen. King, Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez, Rep. Hoyle, and Sen. Hyde-Smith, who are all strong supporters of working lands and wood utilization solutions for rural communities. We also checked in with the House Transportation & Infrastructure committee staff, USDA Rural Development, the White House CEQ and shared our vision for community-scale sawmill facilities. What if small sawmills were as common in rural forested communities as any other public-benefit facility - libraries, farmers markets, recycling centers, community gardens, landfills, pickle ball courts? A network of these community-scale small-diameter wood mills across the rural west could help solve several big gnarly problems related to climate, sustainable forestry, wildfire resilience and recovery, rural development, and housing. Sometimes the bigger the problem the smaller the solution. (The wall hung quilt is in Senator King’s office)