This working session of the Alliance’s Habitat Resources Priority Issue Team (HRT) will provide further opportunities to discuss findings and implications of the HRT-relevant Gulf Conference oral sessions, following the prior Living Shorelines, Habitat Assessment, and Regional Sediment Management Working Group sessions.  This session will also provide time for attendees to discuss the relevance of conference presentations to the goals of the Alliance’s Integrated Planning and Human Benefits of Nature Cross-team Initiatives, with which the HRT has coordinated.  Since the Alliance will discontinue those initiatives as stand-alone efforts in the future, discussions during this session will also explore interest in incorporating initiative topics into the HRT’s 2026-2031 work plan.  The HRT encourages all conference attendees interested in these topics to attend and contribute to this conversation.