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Blue Ridge-Berryessa Partnership hosts 'State of the Region' Jan. 29
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – The Blue Ridge-Berryessa Partnership, a group of regional stakeholders working together to conserve and steward the Blue Ridge-Berryessa Natural Area, will hold a “State of the Region” panel discussion in Napa on Wednesday, Jan. 29.
The panel discussion, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at the Napa County Library, 580 Coombs St.
Panelists will provide an update on programs and policies affecting the region and reflect on conservation trends and the future of resource management and planning in the region.
The panel consists of staff from local, state and federal resource and land management agencies, including Joshua Bush, wildlife biologist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife; John Woodbury, general manager, Napa County Regional Parks and Open Space District; Jeffery Laird, parks manager; Peggie Brooks, chief of the Recreation Resources Division, Bureau of Reclamation; Richard Burns, field office manager, Bureau of Land Management Ukiah Field Office; Jim Wright, north operations division chief, and Mike Wilson, Sonoma-Lake-Napa division chief of pre-fire planning and vegetation management program, Cal Fire.
Founded in 1997, the partnership provides a forum for the public and private land managers to meet and discuss stewardship activities, interests, and challenges.
The group has since grown to more than 100 members, including federal and state agencies, counties and other public entities, local businesses, nonprofit organizations and conservation-minded landowners – all with the common goal of supporting collaborative stewardship of the natural and working landscape of the Blue Ridge-Berryessa Natural Area.
The Blue Ridge-Berryessa Natural Area is approximately 785,000 acres of the upper Putah and Cache Creek watersheds, both tributaries to the Sacramento River basin.
The area is bounded on the east at the base of the Blue Ridge by the Capay and Sacramento valleys, on the west by the Clear Lake basin and the Napa watershed, on the north by the Mendocino National Forest, and extends south to Interstate 80 in Solano County.
It encompasses portions of Lake, Colusa, Yolo, Napa and Solano counties and is part of the Coast Range ecological zone that extends north into Oregon.