This seminar, featuring weekly guest speakers, covers the resources of Putah Creek: which are critical and why. It also teaches about the physical processes of the flowing water, land inundation, and river channel dynamics interact with the ecological processes, the vegetation, and the wildlife. The course covers fundamental processes that sustain the critical resources; what can be done to protect, conserve and restore the vital processes; and the resources that depend on them. The speakers come from the fields of academia, management, planning, hydrology, ecology, and fine art.