Restoring Natural Areas
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Agenda
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Monday, May 5, 2025
8:30 am – 4:30 pm CDT
Agenda:
Presented by John Giordanengo, M.S.
Restoring Natural Areas in Urban and Rural Landscapes
- Ecosystem structure and functions
- What is ecological restoration?
- Benefits of restoring natural areas in urban and rural landscapes
Site Evaluation and Stakeholder Engagement
- Permitting and regulatory compliance – (overview, with focus on waters of the US)
- Evaluating project sites (desktop and field analysis)
- Balancing and setting restoration goals
- Stakeholder engagement and multi-objective decision analysis (MODA)
Restoring Ecological Processes
- Understanding disturbance
- Restoring ecological processes (succession, productivity, and diversity – managing disturbance)
- Soils (testing, restoring, and integrating with vegetation planning)
- Hydrology (hydrologic point of reference)
- Vegetation (understanding hydroseres and integrated revegetation strategies)
- Erosion control (erosion processes and treatment thresholds)
- Soil surface protection
Project Design for Ecological Restoration
- Establishing design objectives (and design criteria)
- Design process for ecological restoration
- Design integration of vegetation, soils, hydrology, and soil surface protection
- Design language (across ecological, architectural, and engineering disciplines)
- Bioengineering (as time allows)
Implementing Ecological Restoration Plans
- Materials sourcing processes and guidelines (beyond getting the right rocks)
- Addressing wildlife mitigation/protection during construction (the Hippocratic Oath of restoration)
- The golden rule of construction (minimize material import/export/movement)
- Construction process and construction oversight (critical path planning)
- Implementation monitoring (value engineering and as-builts)
Adaptive Management
- Understanding and addressing ecological risks/threats
- Long-term project management cycle
- Monitoring criteria and techniques
- Common adaptive management practices (pitfalls and hurdles)
Restoration Project Case Studies (as time allows)
- Post-fire restoration (plant community responses to High Park Fire restoration, Ft. Collins, CO)
- Post-flood restoration (Big Thompson River, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO)
- Mineland restoration in Glitter Gulch (Boulder, Colorado)
- Natural habitat buffer zone (disaster in the making)
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Credits
Engineers
7.0 PDHs
Architects
7.0 HSW CE Hours
AIA - American Institute of Architects
7.0 HSW LUs
Landscape Architects
7.0 HSW CE Hours
LACES - Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System
7.0 HSW PDHs
APA/AICP - American Planning Association/American Institute of Certified Planners
7.0 CM
Continuing Education Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 7.0 PDHs for professional engineers, 7.0 HSW continuing education hours for licensed architects, and 7.0 HSW continuing education hours for landscape architects in all states that allow this learning method. Please refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider License No: CEA362), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00049300) and North Carolina (S-0130). HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York engineers and architects via its registration with the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System (Regulations of the Commissioner §68.14(i)(2) and §69.6(i)(2)). Other states do not preapprove continuing education providers or courses.
The American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System has approved this course for 7.0 HSW LUs (Sponsor No. J885). Only full participation is reportable to the AIA/CES.
The Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System has approved this course for 7.0 HSW PDHs. Only full participation is reportable to the LA CES.
HalfMoon Education is an approved CM Provider with the American Planning Association. This course is registered for CM | 7 for Certified Planners.
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*On-Demand Credits*
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7.0 HSW LUs (AIA)
7.0 HSW PDHs (LA CES)
Speakers
John Giordanengo, MS
Principal/Owner, Economic Restoration Services and Founder, Economic Restoration InstituteMr. Giordanengo’s drive to improve the science and practice of ecological restoration grows out of a passion for conserving natural resources. Since 1996 he has provided a broad range of services to local, state, and federal agencies, as well as private clients to restore riparian, wetland, and upland habitats from the peaks to the prairies. With 32 years of experience, and over 250 restoration-related projects completed, his knowledge spans the Western US, with experience in Ecuador, Mexico, El Salvador, and elsewhere. This includes dozens of stream and riparian restoration projects, wildfire hazard mitigation and restoration, wetland and pond restoration, and a wide range of upland restoration and erosion control projects. In the process, he has amassed a lexicon necessary for ecologists, architects, and engineers to co-design and implement highly complex restoration projects. Mr. Giordanengo’s experience includes watershed, river, and ecological health assessments, restoration design, permitting and regulatory compliance, seed mixes and plant palettes, bioengineering, erosion control, and restoration curricula development. He enjoys managing complex stakeholder engagement processes across public, private, and non-profit constituents in support of watershed and regional planning efforts. In 2016, he led a team of over 30 federal, state, and local entities to develop Living Streambanks, a Manual to Bioengineering Treatments for Colorado Streams for the Colorado Water Conservation Board. For ten years Mr. Giordanengo has been developing a design system for restoration hydroseres (establishment zones) within riparian and wetland systems, and he continues to refine a revegetation matrix for Colorado that enhances the ability to deliver the highest quality revegetation designs. His experience in ecological, conservation, business, and economics has recently been wrapped into Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies (To a Sustainable State), 2nd Edition. This book follows systems thinking approaches to apply ecological restoration processes to our economies.
AIA Info
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AIA continuing education credit has been reviewed and approved by AIA/CES. Learners must complete the entire learning program to receive continuing education credit. AIA continuing education Learning Units earned upon completion of this course will be reported to AIA/CES for AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and non-AIA members are available upon request.
Course Title: Restoring Natural Areas
Delivery Method: Live Online
Course Description: This seven-hour course examines best practices for restoring natural areas in urban and rural landscapes, focusing on ecological processes, site evaluation, project design and implementation. The course will explore ecosystem structure and function, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder engagement strategies. The course also covers restoration design, construction oversight, adaptive management, and case studies focusing on post-fire, post-flood, and mineland restoration projects.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objective 1: Learners will be able to analyze ecosystem structure and functions to develop restoration strategies for urban and rural landscapes.
Learning Objective 2: Learners will be able to identify sources of ecological disturbances and develop strategies to restore ecological processes.
Learning Objective 3: Learners will be able to utilize soil testing, hydrologic principles, and vegetation to control erosion and protect surface soils.
Learning Objective 4: Learners will be able to discuss the pitfalls and hurdles of common adaptive management practices and develop a long-term project management cycle.
LUs: 7.0
LU Type: LU|HSWs
Prerequisites: None
Advance Preparation: None
Program Level: Intermediate
Course Expiration Date: 03/11/2028
Complaint Resolution Policy:
Complaints regarding this course can be emailed to fchapman@halfmoonseminars.org or by calling (715) 835-5900. A HalfMoon Education representative will respond within 72 hours to resolve the complaint, which will include, but not limited to, access to another CE activity at no or reduced cost or a full or partial refund. Each instance will be resolved on a case-by-case situation.
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