Faculty
Humboldt State University/Samara Restoration
Eureka, California, United States
Craig Benson has 35 years of professional, scientific, and construction experience in a wide variety of watershed rehabilitation, ecological restoration, agro-ecological planning, forest improvement, erosion control, and stormwater management projects in the United States, West Africa, and South America. Regionally, Mr. Benson has contracted with federal, state and county agencies, municipalities, and special districts, as well as with private landowners and Tribes in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of more than 50 watershed-scale assessments & rehabilitation plans and over 350 site-scale ecological restoration and stormwater-related projects throughout the Inter-mountain West. Craig has assisted multiple clients through all phases of project planning and implementation, including funding searches and grant writing, preliminary and final design, preparation of environmental documentation and permits, facilitation of public meetings, interagency coordination, construction, and long-term monitoring. Projects have included watershed analysis, road network assessments, hydrologic restoration, Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER), vegetation management, riparian stream restoration, riparian buffer zone design, soil bioengineering, constructed wetlands, fisheries and wildlife habitat enhancement, erosion control planning, soil phytoremediation, agroforestry, and agroecological restoration. A portion of these projects have included all phases of stormwater management, TMDL implementation planning, and NPDES permit compliance, particularly the development of basin-scale Non-point Source Pollution and TMDL Compliance Plans, municipal Phase II MS4 stormwater management plans (SWMPs) and project-scale stormwater pollution prevention plans (SWPPPs).
Craig currently teaches in the Environmental Science & Management Dept at Humboldt State University and practices through Samara Restoration in McKinleyville, CA. He continues to organize, teach and present internationally at workshops and conferences on stormwater management, erosion and sediment control, ecological restoration and climate change. Lastly, he serves the Vice-President of the Global Development for the International Erosion Control Association, the Governor's CA Climate Change Council, and is an active member of the Society for Ecological Restoration.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022
10:20 AM – 11:20 AM
Friday, February 18, 2022
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM