加州农业厅与自然资源厅在UC Merced合办草原峰会 970万英亩草原成焦点
Merced——加州食品与农业厅（California Department of Food and Agriculture，CDFA）与加州自然资源厅（California Natural Resources Agency）10月16日在加州大学 Merced 分校（UC Merced）联合主办2026年草原自然解决方案峰会，共同主办方还包括加州牧场信托（California Rangeland Trust）、奥杜邦加州（Audubon California）与 Point Blue 保护科学研究所。峰会汇集从业者、政策制定者、倡导者、技术援助提供者与学者，讨论草原自然解决方案的进展，并寻找扩大实施的机会。
加州草原面积约970万英亩，占全州约9%，提供野生动物栖息地、水过滤与蓄水、休闲、牲畜放牧与碳储存等关键功能，但正面临退化、气候变化与开发转用等日益严峻的威胁。保护、计划放牧与生态修复等自然解决方案，有助于维系这些生态系统及其为加州人提供的服务。
农业厅厅长 Karen Ross 表示：「草原占加州牧场主饲养牛和其他牲畜所用土地的大部分，但这片土地还提供栖息地、水过滤、碳封存等许多其他益处。」她说，保护和恢复这些土地至关重要，既关乎兴旺的粮食系统，也关乎支撑全体加州人的其他生态系统服务。
2020年10月，州长纽森发布 N-82-20 号行政令，确立在全州扩大自然解决方案的综合议程，以恢复自然系统、实现气候与生物多样性目标，同时支持公共健康、社区安全与加州食物和水供应的安全。
（来源：加州食品与农业厅）
CDFA and Natural Resources Agency Co-Host Grasslands Summit at UC Merced
MERCED — The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and the California Natural Resources Agency, together with UC Merced, the California Rangeland Trust, Audubon California and Point Blue Conservation Science, co-hosted the 2026 Grasslands Nature-Based Solutions Summit at UC Merced on October 16, bringing together practitioners, policymakers, advocates, technical assistance providers and academics to discuss progress on nature-based solutions for grasslands and identify opportunities to scale up implementation.
Grasslands cover 9.7 million acres — about 9 percent of California — and provide critical benefits including wildlife habitat, water filtration and storage, recreation, livestock grazing and carbon storage. These landscapes face growing threats from degradation, climate change and conversion to development; nature-based solutions such as conservation, prescribed grazing and restoration can help sustain these ecosystems and the services they provide.
"Grasslands make up the bulk of the land that California's ranchers use to raise cattle and other livestock, but that land provides so many other benefits in terms of habitat, water filtration, carbon sequestration, and more," said CDFA Secretary Karen Ross. "It is critical that we protect and restore these lands to ensure the continuation of a thriving food system as well as the other ecosystem services that support all of California."
In October 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-82-20, establishing a comprehensive agenda to expand nature-based solutions across the state. (GSM, from a CDFA press release via EIN Presswire, Oct. 16)
来源：加州食品与农业厅
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图片来源：图：UC Merced 校园草原上的牛群。本届草原峰会在该校举行（来源：Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 4.0）。
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