A group of mountain landowners hope to train a new generation of stewards to protect the forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network announced Wednesday that they are launching their second Spotlight Stewardship course. The group will train up to 20 people about timber and forest health management; fire prevention and management; water quality and supply; sensitive species, wildlife corridors and working lands; agricultural, ranching and environmental resources; responsible recreation and public access; and cannabis cultivation during the five-day course.
“Spotlight Stewardship is a way to communicate the complex realities of land stewardship”, Dylan
Skybrook, manager of the Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network, wrote in the news release, “and the need for collaboration between members of the Network to address those complexities. It’s really useful to have community leaders come out and spend some time on the land to understand stewardship issues and to see how the cooperation of Network Members is essential to the effort to care for the land.”
Get more information about the Santa Cruz Mountain Stewardship Network and the Spotlight Stewardship course at www.scmsn.net.
