2025 Workshop Series
Join us for RiversEdge West's 2025 Workshop Series, where experts, practitioners, and community members come together to explore innovative approaches to riparian restoration. Each workshop offers a unique focus on the tools, technology, and partnerships driving successful restoration efforts across the Southwest.
Spring 2025: Biocontrol in Action
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Discover how tamarisk leaf beetles are being used as an effective tool for managing invasive plant species in riparian ecosystems. This hands-on workshop will delve into the science and strategies behind biocontrol, showcasing its role in promoting long-term habitat restoration.
Summer 2025: Riparian Restoration Technology
Format: Virtual
Explore cutting-edge technologies shaping the future of riparian restoration. This virtual workshop will feature insights into the use of GIS, satellite imaging, and other tools that enhance monitoring, planning, and decision-making for riparian ecosystems.
Fall 2025: Riparian Restoration on Private Lands
Location: Grand Junction, CO
Learn how partnerships with private landowners are transforming riparian restoration efforts. This workshop highlights collaborative approaches, best practices, and success stories from projects that improve habitat on private properties while balancing ecological and landowner goals.
Become a Sponsor
Support RiversEdge West’s 2025 Workshop Series and gain recognition for your commitment to environmental stewardship! Opportunities are available to sponsor the entire series or individual workshops.
Learn about sponsor benefits here or email Cara at ckukuraitis@riversedgewest.org.
More details coming soon! For Workshop Series updates, sign up for our monthly e-newsletter.
History of our Conferences & Workshops
Starting in 2023, RiversEdge West's conference switched to a biennial format, with the conference being hosted on even-numbered years. In the opposite years (odd-numbered), we host hands-on, local workshops that will be guided by the needs of our partners and the restoration community (you!).
Our biennial workshop series provide opportunities to reach new audiences with experiential local, regional, and state-driven workshops and training where it is needed most. Unlike our conference where we are committed to a central location with a large groundswell of support, these smaller workshops and webinars will have the ability to span a larger geography, focus on topics better tailored to a specific region, and reach a more diverse audience.
Previous Workshops
2023 Workshop Series
In 2023, RiversEdge West hosted in-person workshops at three locations across the Southwest that address the needs of a specific region. At each stop, we connected the people managing riparian lands with the techniques, scientific findings, and lessons learned that are vital to ensuring that restoration is successful.
These focused and place-based workshops provided a venue for education, collaboration, and training. Click below to learn more!
Schedule
- Albuquerque, NM - April 14, 2023 - Planting for the Future Along the Middle Rio Grande
- Rangely, CO - June 8, 2023 - Beetle Herding: A New Tool for Tamarisk Biocontrol on the White River
- Tucson, AZ - October 13, 2023 - Habitat for the Future: Exploring Climate Resilient Riparian Habitat
Thank you to our 2023 Sponsors:
River Champions ($5,000+)
Includes 6 workshop registrations and prominent promotion of sponsorship in all workshop materials
Cottonwood Sponsors ($2,500)
Includes 4 workshop registrations and promotion of sponsorship in workshop materials
Willow Sponsors ($1,000)
Includes 2 workshop registrations and promotion of sponsorship in workshop materials
Seedling Sponsors ($500)
Includes 1 workshop registration and promotion of sponsorship in workshop materials
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Testimonials
RiversEdge West puts together a topnotch conference that attracts a wide range of relevant restoration presenters who are doing important work. Having the opportunity to not only hear from the experts but to actually interact with them between sessions is invaluable. If you are involved in riparian restoration in any capacity you need to clear your calendar to make room to attend this conference!
The Riparian Restoration Conference is one of the most informative and useful conferences I have ever attended in my career in that it brings together scientists, resource managers, and practitioners with ample opportunity to share and discuss information, goals, and methods across a broad range of relevant topics.
It is just inspirational and invigorating being around so many people doing similar work. It was especially helpful meeting people who work in similar organizations but in different places.
[The Conference] provides a broad range of information and new research that is applicable to a variety of audiences including private landowners.
Getting a big picture view is critical when working in a small community. These contacts will provide a wealth of information and inspiration!
I am walking away with a sense of how to foster collaboration at a watershed scale.
It is just inspirational and invigorating being around so many people doing similar work. It was especially helpful for meeting people who work in similar organizations but in different places.
The attendees and presentations at the Riparian Restoration Conference provided thought-provoking new ways of thinking about things.
This was my first conference in the area and the variety of attendees was fantastic; representatives from commercial companies, non-profits, cooperatives, academics, and state/federal agencies were all present.
It is easy to get down these days in our field. I realized a lot of exciting things that were going on and that I need to push a bit harder.
My experience with the Riparian Restoration conference by far exceeded my expectations; the quality and depth of the science, the passion of the speakers and the location of the conference were all top-notch. I brought home many slices of information that I can immediately utilize in my workday and feel confident in the vetting process that proceeded it.
I live in a rural town where it is difficult to convene with so many experts/practitioners/scientists/agency representatives. The simple opportunity to meet and talk with people was hugely beneficial.
[The Conference] provides a broad range of information and new research that is applicable to a variety of audiences including private landowners.
Learning about the quantity of research on riparian restoration was the most valuable to me. It gave me some hope.
I got to learn about restoration strategies that they just do not teach in school.
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