[SCE] Newsom's budget ... First ever CDFW Beaver restoration Program!

Tue Jun 28 14:24:19 PDT 2022

This gives me hope and joy. Thanks tons to all who made it happen!

On 2022-06-28 08:01, Dee Swanhuyser wrote:
> WOWZERS! Congrats to Brock and Beavers!! Bravo to all who carried this
> all the way to the Guv!!! xoxo Dee
> 
>> On Jun 28, 2022, at 7:42 AM, Brock Dolman <brock at oaec.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> FYI - The Governor’s newly signed budget also includes permanent
>> funding for this exciting first-ever CDFW Beaver Restoration
>> Program! 🤗🦫
>> 
>> Brock
>> 
>> Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s WATER Institute Praises State
>> Leaders for Ushering in a New Era of Beaver Restoration in
>> California
>> 
>> SACRAMENTO (June 27, 2022) – At the urging of more than 100
>> conservation, agricultural, business, and tribal partners [1] –
>> with advocacy led by Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s (OAEC)
>> WATER (Watershed Advocacy Training Education & Research) Institute
>> – by June 30th Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal to launch a new
>> Beaver Restoration Program [2] at the California Department of Fish
>> and Wildlife will be enacted. When the state’s new fiscal year
>> begins on July 1, the Department will initiate new efforts to hire
>> the professional scientific staff needed to “truly support and
>> manage this native keystone species through the implementation of
>> nature-based solutions.”
>> 
>> “We couldn’t be more thrilled that this day is finally here,”
>> said the WATER Institute’s Kate Lundquist, who hailed the
>> legislature’s passage of AB [3]/SB [4] 154 earlier this month.
>> “We can’t wait for the Governor to sign it later this week.
>> After decades of missing out on opportunities that beavers provide
>> to create healthier ecosystems, we agree that ‘the Department must
>> take a proactive leap towards bringing beavers back onto the
>> landscape through a concerted effort to combine prioritized
>> restoration projects, partnerships with local, federal, and state
>> agencies and tribes, and updated policies and practices that support
>> beaver management and conservation throughout the State.’”
>> 
>> “Governor Newsom and the legislature have leaned in on beavers and
>> are ushering in a new era of restoration in California that creates
>> the opportunity for nature’s engineer to thrive again,” said
>> Brock Dolman, OAEC co-founder and WATER Institute co-director.
>> “Working in partnership with the state, we see so many
>> opportunities for beavers to create beneficial habitat, help fight
>> drought, wildfire, and climate change, increase abundance of
>> ecologically and significant plants and animals, and improve water
>> quality and flow. We can’t wait to pitch in and assist the
>> Department in any way we can.”
>> 
>> According to the Governor’s proposal [2], with $1.67 million in FY
>> 2022-23 and $1.44 million FY 2023-24 and ongoing, five new
>> environmental scientists will work to “revise beaver policies and
>> guidelines in development of a comprehensive beaver management
>> plan.” This team “will develop an integrated and proactive
>> approach to mitigate human-beaver conflict specific to reported
>> damage due to known beaver activity. The team will coordinate with
>> other agencies and departments to prioritize beaver restoration
>> projects.”
>> 
>> Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s WATER Institute thanks Governor
>> Newsom, state legislative budget leaders Senator Nancy Skinner,
>> Assemblymember Phil Ting, Senator Bob Wieckowski, and Assemblymember
>> Richard Bloom, California Natural Resources Agency Secretary Wade
>> Crowfoot, California Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck
>> Bonham and Deputy Director Chad Dibble, Jennifer Fearing with
>> Fearless Advocacy, and all our many partners across the state for
>> their strong support and advocacy for this new initiative.
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> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JSIU-sXdoad5vnT-CBllepcKn7X82-wS/view?usp=sharing
> [2] 
> https://esd.dof.ca.gov/Documents/bcp/2223/FY2223_ORG3600_BCP6018.pdf
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> https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB154
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> https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB154
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