Winter News and Updates from the California Central Coast Joint Venture |
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The C3JV is working to build inclusive partnerships that steward healthy and resilient habitats for birds, other wildlife and people. This newsletter highlights some of these efforts as we continue to build the foundation for a durable, impactful, and visionary collaborative. |
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The Granary Tree, used and built over generations by a communal descent of Acorn Woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus), is an iconic symbol of California’s rich oak woodland community. This unique system of storage captures the bounty of one season to disperse across moments of dearth in others. It is a mark of abundance, cooperation and communalism among a beautiful, raucous and accessible bird. It speaks to the nature of collaboration, community building, intergenerational commitments, and a responsibility to other beings… indeed everything. The granary tree is a fitting allegory for our intentions with the California Central Coast Joint Venture, and a fitting title for our newsletter. |
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2022 was an important year for the C3JV. With the release of our Implementation plan, procurement of capacity funding and the building of our board among other accomplishments, below is a recap of our efforts to solidify the C3JV as an active, engaged and strategic voice in conservation on the Central Coast. |
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Release of our 2022 Implementation Plan |
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While some time in the making, we are pleased to release our 2022 C3JV Implementation Plan, laying the foundation for our conservation approach. The Implementation Plan is an important step on the road to official United States Fish and Wildlife Service recognition as a habitat joint venture, joining the ranks of 25 habitat and species joint ventures across Canada, United States and Mexico. Together, joint ventures are working to ensure North America's bird community remains a vibrant reflection of the habitats, ecosystems and cultures that embody this diverse continent. You can see the Plan Executive Summary at left, or read the full plan below. |
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In addition to being wet, 2023 is shaping up to be a productive and busy year! Among other activities, the C3JV will be working over the next 11 months to: 1)Advance habitat restoration for the Western Monarch, a candidate species, with numerous partners across the Central Coast; 2) Support the revitalization of a long-standing MAPS station to continue a 16-year dataset on resident coastal sage scrub birds; 3) Continue to support the recovery needs of the Marbled Murrelet; 4)Advocate for USFWS Joint Venture Recognition; 5) Refine and communicate our Commitments to Indigenous partners in the Central Coast; and 6) launch the KITE Committee (see below). Take a look at our 2023 work plan overview to learn more about the year's activities! |
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The Knowledge Integration and Technical Exchange (KITE) Committee is a voluntary, standing committee representing actively engaged knowledge holders across diverse fields including avian conservation, biology and ecology, social justice, community health and wellbeing among others. The purpose of the KITE Committee is at least two-fold: 1) to advise the C3JV Management Board and Staff guiding, designing and indeed implementing conservation initiatives that are responsive to bird, other wildlife and community |
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needs and thus furthering our implementation plan benchmark goals and objectives; and 2) to provide a forum for information and knowledge exchange, partner sharing, community-building and collective problem solving among participants of the C3JV. We are working to launch the KITE Committee in 2023, and am looking for engagement and expressions of interest to participate. If this sounds of interest, please follow the link below to sign up for further communications. |
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