2017 North American Rewilding Conference

The annual North American Rewilding Conference is a social networking opportunity as well as a think tank of some of the nation’s most inspiring rewilders and rewilding projects. It is a marriage of conservation rewilding and human rewilding as a social and environmental movement away from civilization and the restoration of the wild and the human place therein. Here you will find individuals and grassroots organizations collaborating on a range of rewilding-related fields including ancestral technology, wildlands restoration, ethnobiology, reintroduction of species, traditional ecological knowledge, and much more.

2017 Theme: "Restoration to What?"
We talk a lot about "restoration" but what are we trying to restore to? What are our actual goals? A certain time in history? A specific ecotone from a specific era? If the world has changed (with elements like the introduction of invasive species and climate change), what do we mean by restoration? What does it look like? What exactly are we restoring? This theme was inspired by the advanced permaculture course titled Social Forestry with Hazel (Tom Ward) at Siskiyou Permaculture.

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