Did you miss the Carbon Sequestration on Monterey County Rangelands: Ranching is part of the climate change solution! workshop? If so, not to worry. We recorded the workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNb3bZXi69U&t=11029s.
The workshop was held on September 22 in Salinas. We had some fantastic speakers, including Toby O'Geen and Frank Mitloehner from UC Davis, Lynn Huntsinger from UC Berkeley, and a rancher panel, among others. The primary purpose of the workshop was to help inform the Monterey County Climate Action Plan, but there was so much great information shared, I think it had value far beyond just the climate action plan.
Below is the workshop agenda. The video is quite long: about 4.5 hours. However, if you want to watch a specific talk, you can just click on the start time in the agenda below and it will take you to the video at the beginning of that person's talk.
Meeting Agenda
Time Stamp and Speaker
7:10 to 11:40 - Supervisor Chris Lopez, Monterey County Board of Supervisors District 3, Brief intro to Climate Action Plan
13:00 to 17:15 - Virginia Jameson, Deputy Secretary Climate and Working Land, California Dept. of Food & Ag, Intro to Healthy Soils Program
18:30 to 36:15- Jazmine Mejia-Muñoz, Ca. Marine Sanctuary Foundation and Justin Luong, UC Santa Cruz Compost addition and rangeland seeding a Healthy Soils demonstration project in Monterey County
38:05 to 1:17:40 – Toby O'Geen, UC Davis, Carbon dynamics in rangeland soils
1:19:30 to 1:54:25 – Lynn Huntsinger, UC Berkeley, Keeping it in the (carbon) bank: working rangelands
1:56:55 to 2:13:05 - Ari DeLara, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Overview 8 carbon sequestration practices
2:13:49 to 2:21:30 –Devii Rao, UC Cooperative Extension, Deeper dive into prescribed grazing
2:22:00 to 2:34:35 - Royce Larsen, UC Cooperative Extension, Results from range seeding and oak planting experiments
2:35:30 to 2:43:00 - Ari DeLara, NRCS, How to work with NRCS, how much NRCS matches for certain practices
2:43:45 to 2:55:30 - Ashley Paulsworth, County of Monterey, Monterey County Climate Action Plan Overview
2:55:45 to 3:40:55 - Frank Mitloehner, UC Davis, Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock/methane cycle
3:43:05 to 4:36:42- Rancher Panel – Successes and challenges implementing carbon sequestration practices
• Rodrigo Sierra Corona, Santa Lucia Conservancy
• Jeff Mundell, Gabilan Ranch
• Rich Casey, Redtail Ranch
• Steve Dorrance, Dorrance Family Ranches
Author - San Benito County Director and Area Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor