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Add your ideas to help guide the CBN in the next few years by clicking on the "+" under the column/category where you want to add an idea. on the appropriate card. If you have a new idea you want to add or scenario you think is worth exploring, you can create a new card. Give your card a subject/header and then describe your idea a bit in the text block below. Click "Publish" when you're done!

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What are you looking for from communities of practice?

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How can working groups help provide info, plans & data?

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What workshops, trainings, collaborations are you looking for across the network?

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I'm hosting a Bioregional Resilience for Contra Costa County! It's free and open for all

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Bioregional Disaster Resilience & Biocultural Restoration Call to Action

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identify/invite 30-40 local leaders and catalyze relationships that address food security, disaster preparedness, and resource awareness

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What does the Systematic conservation planning roundtable do? I'd love to learn more!

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Is the CBN addressing the concern that visitor use in protected areas is a major threat to wildlife. It would seem that few of the protected lands managers recognize that in California.

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THANK YOU 30X30 ! Love from Southern California in the Coachella Valley Riverside County!

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The Chuckwalla National Monument proposal would protect approximately 660,000 acres just south of Joshua Tree National Park. The proposal is named for the Chuckwalla lizard, one of the species found in the region. Establishing the monument would help ensure more equitable access to nature for local

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Would be great to discuss how to integrate municiple jurisdictions into the wildlife/nature corridor efforts so that there are designated corridors that offer connectivity for wildlife including plants, birds and pollinators.

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We just released the California Doughnut Economics Snapshot and are developing coalition!

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We just released the California Doughnut Economics Snapshot and are developing coalition!

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https://caldec.org/ca-dougnut-snapshot/

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California Doughnut Economics Coalition - CalDEC

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CA Dougnut Snapshot - California Doughnut Economics Coalition

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The California Doughnut Snapshot If considered as an independent nation, California would be the world’s 5th largest economy - but is it meeting the needs of all its people within the limits of the planet? The California Doughnut looks at 42 social and ecological indicators to provide a concise visual assessment of our economy’s performance.

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What role do members from the private sector play in the CNB network? It's a bit easier to understand what an NGO or academic may do, but I'd love to hear from someone in the private sector!

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Is the CBN working with social science to better understand where there might be opportunities for achieving the 30x30 initiative?

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(Preface: I haven't been closely involved in CBN to date). Very interested in knowing more about:

The current thinking on 30x30 indicators and metrics

Guidance on how best to assess functional ecological connectivity (e.g., indicators and metrics)

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I'm on the board of SERCAL -- Society for Ecological Restoration, California -- we would love to help more with CBN and connect our networks. We'd love to have you at our annual conference! https://sercal.org/sercal2025

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SERCAL 2025 — California Society for Ecological Restoration

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SERCAL is dedicated to facilitating the recovery of damaged California ecosystems, empowering our members — through conferences and other networking/educational opportunities — to best address the diverse aspects involved in restoring native California habitats.

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Which roundtable does the biodiversity assessment fall under?

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Which roundtable does the biodiversity assessment fall under?

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Interested to see how Sentinel Site Roundtable, Systematic Planning Roundtable, Stewardship Roundtable and Community Science/Bioinformatics Roundtable might work together to refine data collection and application strategies for CBN and 30 x 30 as a whole.

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Incorporating Equity and Environmental Justice

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Incorporating Equity and Environmental Justice

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While 30x30 is primarily a biodiversity goal, many conservation actions advance environmental justice outcomes such as clean air and water etc. Supporting cross-network discussion and planning may allow for additional innovative ideas and for improving equitable outcomes across all conservation projects.

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Do we need a roundtable that has a focus on urban communities?

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Do we need a roundtable that has a focus on urban communities?

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Seconding opportunities around corridors and connectivity

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Seconding opportunities around corridors and connectivity

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Seems like an intersection of roundtables-Systematic Planning, Sentinel Sites and perhaps Stewardship are most central?

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Wondering about examination of systemic obstacles and potential solutions that can increase tree canopy and biodiversity in urban environments to integrate cities into nature.

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Wildlife Connectivity and Sentential Site Networks

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Wildlife Connectivity and Sentential Site Networks

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Can we set up a working group out of the Sentential Site Network Roundtable that discusses biodiversity changes as wildlife connectivity barriers are remediated throughout the state?

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More on the CDFW sentinel site network

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Climate-Biodiversity Sentinel Site Network

Long-term monitoring (spanning decades) is crucial to understanding how ecosystems change over time at local, regional, and state-wide scales, which informs management strategies and actions aimed at conserving California's biodiversity for future generations.

The California Climate-Biodiversity Sentinel Site Network is a collection of long-term climate and biodiversity monitoring sites statewide. Each site is an individual property where survey plots are being established to systematically monitor climate and biodiversity across the diverse ecosystems of California over time.

This network is being developed through a statewide, multi-jurisdictional partnership and community of practice for science-informed management, in collaboration with the California Biodiversity Network(opens in new tab) .

CDFW Sentinel Sites

The CDFW Science Institute, Lands, and Wildlife Diversity Programs have worked together to establish sentinel sites on select Wildlife Areas and Ecological Reserves across the state. These sites were chosen to reflect the wide range of climate conditions and ecosystem types in California (e.g., coastal, deserts, high-elevation mountain sites, valleys, foothills, etc.).

Each CDFW sentinel site hosts at least one weather station with a variety of sensors for climate monitoring, wildlife cameras and acoustic sensors (for birds and bats), permanent vegetation monitoring plots, and Motus telemetry stations (to capture animal movements) for biodiversity monitoring.

Access the current map of CDFW planned sentinel sites (PDF)(opens in new tab) . This map will be updated as additional sites are added to the network.

Exploring the Data

Climate Data: Each weather station measures the following variables: air temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, photosynthetically active solar radiation, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, soil moisture and temperature, and fuel moisture (a measure of wildfire risk). Data collected by each weather station are publicly accessible on Dendra., Science a data platform developed and managed by UC Berkeley. Dendra includes climate data from CDFW as well as other organizations within the statewide sentinel site network.

Biodiversity Data: Currently, biodiversity monitoring includes the use of wildlife cameras for recording the presence of small to large animals and acoustic sensors for birds and bats. Data will be stored on a variety of different data management and analysis platforms, such as Wildlife Insights. For detailed information on monitoring methodologies, check out these storybooks for field methodology protocols(opens in new tab) and data processing protocols(opens in new tab) .

Biodiversity monitoring at sentinel sites also includes Motus telemetry stations to capture animal movements. Data collected by Motus stations is available at motus.org. The Motus network permits researchers to understand the movements of tagged animals regardless of the ownership or management of the station. This system benefits the Department by increasing the research potential of migratory species and species like bats and butterflies where until recently, assessments of their movement patterns were not possible. It also benefits research partners by providing an infrastructure for the study of animal movements at the continental scale. Visit CDFW's Motus system web page for more information on how Motus is being used to track wildlife movement.

Benefits

These datasets on climate and biodiversity allow scientists to evaluate potential links between climate change and effects on local species and ecosystems. This information helps land managers to understand climate change-related effects and risks to biodiversity and practice adaptive management.

Additionally, by establishing records of ecosystem conditions before, during, and after extreme events such as drought, floods, and wildfires, scientists can identify locations on the landscape that act as potential climate refugia (areas that are relatively buffered from the impacts of climate change), and conversely highlight areas where climate impacts are more substantial.

Understanding the effects of climate change at multiple spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scales can inform land-management decisions and long-term conservation goals and strategies for California's biodiversity.

Working Together

CDFW is coordinating with multiple external collaborators on the California Climate-Biodiversity Sentinel Site Network, including UC Natural Reserve System, UC Berkeley, Pepperwood Preserve, the Nature Conservancy, USGS, and the broader California Biodiversity Network Sentinel Site Roundtable(opens in new tab) .

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Science: Climate and Biodiversity Monitoring

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The Department of Fish and Wildlife manages California’s diverse fish, wildlife, and plant resources, and the habitats upon which they depend, for their ecological values and for their use and enjoyment by the public.

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This seems like a great network with a lot of potential that I'm sure other regions might want to emulate. I'm curious if there's a repository of the work that has been accomplished through/with the help of the network?

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As we expand and consider broadening our tent, we should consider translation of materials into additional languages as well as considering more accessible and inclusive tools and language, especially when including non-traditional practitioners and/or community members. More examples could include having visual descriptions or enabling captions as a default for meetings.

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Articulate/ document ecosystem "services"

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How/is storytelling (heart-centered) marketing being funded/supported ?

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How/is storytelling (heart-centered) marketing being funded/supported ?

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Tie fully to Calif State K-12 Curriculum

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Tie fully to Calif State K-12 Curriculum

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I worry about where the impassioned ecologically minded professionals will come from in 20 years. New enviro professionals have to counter huge tides of expensive costs of living, distractions, and a national philosophy of place DIS-connection. How do we create an integration of 30x30 values to move all California students forward with support of State Educational systems?

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Q: is there any attention to diseases, either threats to wildlife directly (e.g., chytrid impact on amphibians) or even human potentially (e.g. avian flu) which are throughout the state?

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Q: is there any attention to diseases, either threats to wildlife directly (e.g., chytrid impact on amphibians) or even human potentially (e.g. avian flu) which are throughout the state?

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And which RTables?

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I think it would be great if CBN could start framing the focus for after we meet 30x30 -- I know the Stewardship RT is starting to think about this given the stewardship needs out there.

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I think it would be great if CBN could start framing the focus for after we meet 30x30 -- I know the Stewardship RT is starting to think about this given the stewardship needs out there.

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Are there good resources for forming and nurturing partnerships that encompass listening at their heart, that recognize past conservation racism and biases, and that also balance the need to move with speed? Readings, examples, experts, etc? 

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Are there good resources for forming and nurturing partnerships that encompass listening at their heart, that recognize past conservation racism and biases, and that also balance the need to move with speed? Readings, examples, experts, etc? 

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As wildlands recover from the fires monitoring/ adaptive management is needed to ensure they don't type-convert to nonnative annual grasslands (which will be even more fire-prone).

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Prioritize uplifting CA Tribal Nations by bringing speakers, presenters, and experts from the 100+ Tribes in the state of

CA. Promote traditional ecological knowledge focused workshops and presentations. Include workshops on how colonial settler violence has impacted environments and biodiversity in CA.