Rene Henery

Dr. Rene Henery is a deep ecologist, artist, writer, and speaker based in Northern California. His work embraces water, diversity, reconciliation, and equity as pathways to resilient ecosystems, coherent communities, and a personal experience of belonging. Rene holds a joint position as California Science Director for Trout Unlimited, the US’s oldest and largest Salmon conservation organization, and research faculty for the University of Nevada, Reno, Global Water Center.

Over the last decade, Rene’s work in the western US has focused on cultivating spaces for collaborative engagement around freshwater systems and the diverse life and communities that they connect. He works extensively in California’s Central Valley on the science and policy of river and floodplain restoration and in the Sierras and Cascades on the restoration of mountain meadows. Rene is a member of the Water Solutions Network and a co-founder of both the Central Valley Salmon Habitat Partnership and the Sierra Meadows Partnership. Rene’s work outside the US includes United for Lake Atitlán (Unidos por Lago Atitlán), a multi-national effort to build capacity for the long-term health and resilience of Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan Watershed, and participation in the conservation of Mongolia’s Eg River and its population of Hucho Taimen, the world’s largest salmon. Common to all of Rene’s work is an orientation towards systemic health and healing, and the application of science and emergent strategy to support a transition from oppositional politics and polarization to coherence and connection.

Contact and website:
Renehenery@gmail.com | https://www.renehenery.com/