Caltrans Erosion Control Workshops: Fall 2007

Workshop Agenda: Improving Vegetation Establishment and Erosion Control With Compost-Based Specifications

The agenda for this series of workshops held in four cities is in the original workshop brochure, which also contains session descriptions, speaker bios, and registration information.

• Workshop Dates and Brochures
• Presentations

Workshop Dates and Brochures

Below are dates for each workshop and also links to brochures containing agendas specific to each city.

• San Luis Obispo, August 21 | Brochure (Adobe PDF, 241 KB)
• Chino, August 23 | Brochure (Adobe PDF, 242 KB)
• Redding, September 25 | Brochure (Adobe PDF, 243 KB)
• Tahoe, September 27 | Brochure (Adobe PDF, 243 KB)

Presentations

Several presentations were repeated at all the workshops but were adapted to reflect the needs of each of the regions in which they were presented.

• San Luis Obispo and Chino Presentations
• Redding Presentations
• Tahoe Presentations

San Luis Obispo and Chino

• Compost Use in Caltrans District 8 (Adobe PDF, 1.1 MB)—Cathi Jochai, Caltrans
• Compost: Completing the Cycle (Adobe PDF, 5.4 MB)—Scott McCoy, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
• Compost Use for Landscape and Environmental Enhancement (Adobe PDF, 1.3 MB)—Janet Hartin, U.C. Riverside Extension
• Prunedale Improvement Project (Adobe PDF, 5.3 MB)—Scott Dowlan, Caltrans
• Research Update on Compost BMPs used for ES&P Control (Adobe PDF, 2.9 MB)—Dan Noble, Association of Compost Producers
• Soils, Vegetation, Erosion, Stormwater Runoff and Compost (Adobe PDF, 3.2 MB)—Greg Balzer, Caltrans
• The US Composting Council’s Seal of Testing Assurance Program (Adobe PDF, 1.2 MB)—Matthew Cotton, United States Composting Council
• Using Compost to Establish Sustainable Vegetation (Adobe PDF, 493 KB)—Dr. Brent Hallock, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
• What is Compost? Composting Biology and Core Principals (Adobe PDF, 2.2 MB)—Dr. David Crohn, UC Riverside Cooperative Extension

Redding

• Case Study--PLA 267 Brockway Summit (Adobe PDF, 2.8 MB)—Monica Finn, Caltrans
• Compost: Completing the Cycle (Adobe PDF, 5.4 MB)—Scott McCoy, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
• Compost Use for Landscape and Environmental Enhancement (Adobe PDF, 1.3 MB)—Janet Hartin, U.C. Riverside Cooperative Extension
• Soils, Vegetation, Erosion, Stormwater Runoff and Compost (Adobe PDF, 3.3 MB)—Greg Balzer, Caltrans
• The US Composting Council’s Seal of Testing Assurance Program (Adobe PDF, 1.2 MB)—Matthew Cotton, United States Composting Council
• Use of Yardwaste Composts to Improve Revegetation Growth on Drastically Disturbed Substrates (Adobe PDF, 900 KB)—Dr. Vic Claassen, UC Davis; Doug Brown and Monica Finn, Caltrans
• What is Compost? Composting Biology and Core Principals (Adobe PDF, 2.2 MB)—Dr. David Crohn, UC Riverside Cooperative Extension

Tahoe

• Case Study--PLA 267 Brockway Summit (Adobe PDF, 2.6 MB)—Monica Finn, Caltrans
• Compost: Completing the Cycle (Adobe PDF, 5.4 MB)—Scott McCoy, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
• Compost Use for Landscape and Environmental Enhancement (Adobe PDF, 2.2 MB)—Janet Hartin, U.C. Riverside Cooperative Extension
• Soils, Vegetation, Erosion, Stormwater Runoff and Compost (Adobe PDF, 4.2 MB)—Greg Balzer, Caltrans
• The US Composting Council’s Seal of Testing Assurance Program (Adobe PDF, 1.2 MB)—Matthew Cotton, United States Composting Council
• Use of Yardwaste Composts to Improve Revegetation Growth on Drastically Disturbed Substrates (Adobe PDF, 7.8 MB)—Dr. Vic Claassen, UC Davis; Doug Brown, Dennis Cadd, and Monica Finn, Caltrans
• Using Compost to Establish Sustainable Vegetation (Adobe PDF, 493 KB)—Dr. Brent Hallock, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
• What is Compost? Composting Biology and Core Principals (Adobe PDF, 2.2 MB)—Dr. David Crohn, UC Riverside Cooperative Extension

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