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Wednesday afternoon, March 16, 4:00–6:05 Session 127 • Napoleon A1/A2 (3rd floor) • 4-hour Workshop (continued from Session 108) Listening Session on a National Park Service Cultural Resources Challenge See under Session 108 for abstract.
Partnerships Chair: TBD
Karen Taylor-Goodrich, Superintendent, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Three Rivers, CA Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks is into year four of a five-year “Sister Park” agreement with the Royal Government of Cambodia to provide professional development expertise at Samlaut Protected Area; the Agreement will be re-negotiated in January 2011. The Maddox-Jolie-Pitt Foundation (MJP) provides on-site coordination and financial support for the agreement. Samlaut shares a border with Thailand on Cambodia’s northwest territory; MJP is facilitating negotiations on the potential establishment of a Thai-Cambodian “peace park”; and, Thai national park staff will be participating in NPS-sponsored training at Samlaut for the first time this year. This proposed paper/case study will focus on the use and promotion of innovative international partnerships to support new and existing protected areas, and achieve local and global ecological and social benefits.
Thomas Fish, National Coordinator, CESU Network, Washington, DC Neil Moisey, Professor of Wildland Recreation Management, Department of Society and Conservation, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT The U.S. government has responsibility for protection and management of approximately one third of the lands and waters in the United States. Innovative approaches that transcend disciplinary and institutional boundaries are essential for solving persistent and emerging complex problems facing the sustainability of our natural and cultural landscapes. Established by Congress in 1998, the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Network is a national consortium of federal agencies; academic institutions; state and tribal governments; conservation organizations; and other partners working together to support agency mission-based science and informed public trust resource stewardship. Thousands of collaborative projects have been conducted through this program, on myriad management units with engagement from partners from coast to coast. This presentation will highlight results from a comprehensive program evaluation and project inventory, capturing vital statistics for the program over the past twelve years; and offering a look at strategic directions for the next ten years. Everglades Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (ECISMA) Antonio Pernas, Coordinator, Florida/Caribbean EPMT, NPS, Palmetto Bay, FL A Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area is a formal partnership of federal, state, and local government agencies, tribes, individuals and various interested groups that manage invasive species and is defined by a geographic boundary. Florida has a long history of invasive species organization cooperation such as the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council, Noxious Exotic Weed Task Team, Florida Invasive Animal Task Team and Invasive Species Working Group. Everglades restoration poses new challenges for invasive species management and has created a need for a more defined commitment to cooperation among agencies and organizations at higher levels of policy and management.
Ken Kingdon, Coordinator, Wildlife Health Program, Resource Conservation Section, Wasagaming, Manitoba, Canada Doug Bergeson, Resource Conservation Section, Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada Ryan Brook, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; Disease management across a multi-jurisdictional landscape is always a challenge. In 1991, bovine tuberculosis (TB) (Mycobacterium bovis) was found in a domestic cattle herd near Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada. Subsequent testing of wildlife indicated that Wapiti (Cervus elaphus) and White-tailed Deer (Odecoileus virginianus) also carried the disease. As the disease was found in both domestic livestock and in wildlife, early management actions required the cooperation of two federal and two provincial government departments. At the same time, First Nations communities and local stakeholders around the National Park demanded greater input into the decision making process. A flexible, adaptive approach integrating Parks Canada’s management objectives with input from First Nations, local residents and stakeholder groups, and other Government partners has led to the formation of an integrated multi-stakeholder management process. The presentation reviews the process and management structures developed to manage this complex disease in a challenging management environment.
Tom Baker, Park Ranger (Management Assistant), Keweenaw National Historical Park, Calumet, MI Stephen Mather, in the formative years of the National Park Service, relied on key partners to promote the national park idea. In 1992, Congress established Keweenaw NHP, based on a partnership premise, to provide a way to preserve the hundreds of structures and associated landscapes that document the nation’s first major mineral rush, without overburdening taxpayers. The NPS at Keweenaw NHP are the facilitators in this grand partnership preservation strategy. The Federal government no longer has perennially deep pockets to save the nation’s natural treasures, nor its cultural heritage. America needs a new, collaborative stewardship model to care for its great places and intangible heritage resources: the “parknership” model employed at Keweenaw NHP demonstrates just such a successful collaboration. Challenges abound, but the prize lies in the preservation of irreplaceable resources. Similar parknership strategies can be employed to achieve the mission of the NPS as well as other preservation/conservation organizations.
Transportation Chair: TBD
Terry McGuire, Special Project Director, Parks Canada Agency, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Eighty three kilometers of the Trans Canada Highway bisect Banff National Park. This anomaly has offered a unique and important opportunity for Parks Canada to manage this transportation corridor as much to connect ecosystems as to connect people to their travel destinations. Each phase of conversion from two to four lanes has sparked national public interest, with early phases becoming flash points for the many divergent views about development and conservation in protected areas and if in keeping with Parks Canada’s mandate of protecting and presenting these lands for present and future generations. This paper offers a 30 year retrospective on how Parks Canada has advanced the science of road ecology with leading-edge, context-sensitive highway design, mitigation and monitoring while improving stakeholder relationships and satisfaction and how the nature and substance of public participation has changed and evolved into an opportunity to now expand awareness about these successful mitigation measures.
Katherine Turnbull, Executive Associate Director, Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX Addressing transportation issues continues to be a major concern at many National Parks. Congested roads, overcrowded parking lots, exhaust fumes, and vehicles blocking scenic vistas all detract from the park experience. Working with local and state partners, the National Park Service (NPS) has implemented new shuttle bus services and other improvements to address these issues and to enhance visitor experiences. Foundations and the private sector are playing key roles in planning, funding, and promoting these new transit services. This paper will discuss the roles foundations and the private sector play in the bus services at Acadia National Park, Zion National Park, Colonial National Historical Park, and other National Parks. Common themes will be highlighted and benefits to other parks will be described.
Patricia Steinholtz, Senior NEPA Planner, David Evans and Associates, Inc., Denver, CO Land managers tasked with protecting our country’s natural and cultural resources are turning to alternative transportation systems (ATS) to address traffic, pollution, and crowding challenges, and can benefit by implementing partnerships with other entities. Two case studies – Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge ATS and North Moab Recreation Areas ATS – investigate the effectiveness of such partnerships and offer land managers examples of successes and impediments experienced on existing ATS projects. Each case study demonstrates different types of partnerships, such as between private or public service providers, between federal lands agencies, with other entities (e.g., transit agencies), or with private companies such as ski resorts, bike rental companies, or other transportation concessioners. Other considerations include multimodal access, system complexity, regional diversity, and geographic setting. The results of these case studies provide land managers valuable lessons learned and successful partnership strategies to apply to their own ATS initiatives.
Krista Sherwood, Community Planner, National Park Service, San Antonio, TX In 2006, Defenders of Wildlife, a non-profit wildlife advocacy organization, with sponsorship from the National Park Service (NPS) through an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), applied for a Transportation Enhancement grant from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to fund construction of a wildlife crossing in a location with chronic vehicle-related Florida panther mortality within Big Cypress National Preserve. Along with adjoining State and Federal preservation lands, Big Cypress ensures the protection of this unique ecosystem and provides the largest contiguous natural habitat for one of the most endangered mammals in the world, the Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi). The project was awarded funding to develop a Project Development and Environmental (PD&E) study which would determine feasibility and design of a wildlife crossing at this location. This paper details the challenges and considerations that guided project development and details the subsequent modifications in the outcome.
David Pettebone, Social Scientist, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA Derrick Taff, PhD Candidate, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Peter Newman, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO David White, Associate Professor, Arizona State University, School of Community Resources and Development, Phoenix, AZ Jessica F. Aquino, Graduate Research Assistant, Arizona State University, School of Community Resources and Development, Phoenix, AZ Increasingly the National Park Service (NPS) is using alternative transportation to accommodate escalating visitation. Understanding factors that influence visitors’ transportation-related decision making is essential to developing effective management strategies and messaging that will encourage visitors to use park shuttle buses and other modes of alternative transportation. Survey research, conducted in Rocky Mountain (2008) and Yosemite (2009 & 2010) National Parks examined visitors’ perceptions of their transportation experience. Three important factors: accessibility, park experience, and conflict were identified by analyzing visitor data from each park using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The similarity in CFA results between studies suggests that strategies and messaging to promote and expand alternative transportation in parks can be formulated at larger, regional levels, rather than at the level of the individual park unit.
Crossing Institutional Boundaries for Better Management of Parks and Protected Areas (Part 2) Chairs: Robert Bennetts, Program Manager, National Park Service, Southern Plains Network, Des Moines, NM Andy Hubbard, Network Program Manager, National Park Service, Sonoran Desert Network, Tucson, AZ Session overview: The National Park Service, like many organizations has an institutional structure that tends to compartmentalize the organization by such things as disciplines and funding sources. While the purpose of such a compartmentalized structure is based largely on administrative functioning, an indirect consequence is a more limited capacity to work as a unified organization toward common goals. At the very least, communication across disciplines is often far less than what it should be and at the other end of the spectrum we suggest that relationships among different disciplines is sometimes better characterized as a rivalry than a partnership, even though those disciplines may be under the same agency with a common mission. While the ultimate solution to this dilemma may warrant reconsidering the institutional structure of our organization, here we present ideas and efforts within the existing organizational structure to better work as a unified agency.
Maren Bzdek, Program Manager – Public Lands History Center, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO Cori Knudten, Researcher – Public Lands History Center, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO A theoretical approach to understanding the past, environmental history explores the many intersections between humans and their environment—how the environment influences human actions and beliefs as well as how humans have altered and coexisted with their environment. Because environmental history brings insights from the humanities and the sciences together in a single explanation for change over time, it can be understood as a methodology for interdisciplinary investigation. Environmental history combines a range of evidence, including historical documents, field investigations, and scientific literature to create a well-rounded picture of the landscape under study. This presentation will focus on several projects undertaken by the Public Lands History Center at national park sites to demonstrate how environmental history can provide managers with some of the tools they need to make resource management decisions and how environmental history can lay the foundation for considering “natural” and “cultural” resources as a holistic entity. Moving Towards Integrated Resources Management Planning Jill Cowley, Historical Landscape Architect, National Park Service, Santa Fe, NM Kathy Billings, Superintendent, National Park Service, Honaunau, HI Daniel Jacobs, Chief, Natural Resource Management, Pecos, NM Integrated resources management, which addresses “resources” rather than “cultural resources” and “natural resources,” can help managers work through apparent management conflicts. “Natural/cultural” can be a divisive dichotomy, just as “feminine/masculine” and “public/private” can be within the social sciences. Integrated resources management starts with studies like environmental histories that document landscape change in a holistic way, interrelating human and non-human influences and conceptualizing park resources as cultural and natural at the same time. This holistic approach can continue through the development of statements of significance, desired future conditions, resource management targets, and action strategies within planning processes such as the Resource Stewardship Strategy (RSS). This presentation will use the on-going pilot RSS at Pecos National Historical Park as a case study of how a holistic resources understanding can be developed into holistic management strategies. Issues addressed will include how the terminology we use influences the degree of integration we achieve.
Robert Bennetts, Network Program Manager, National Park Service, Des Moines, NM Andy Hubbard, Network Program Manager, National Park Service, Tucson, AZ Linda Kerr, Fire Ecologist, National Park Service, Denver, CO The focus of this session is crossing institutional barriers that result from a compartmentalized institutional structure. The National Park Service, like many organizations, is administratively structured in such a way that different disciplines have a tendency to act independently, rather than as a unified organization working toward a common mission. A key first step in working toward unifying our efforts is to start thinking more holistically. One way to facilitate this is for our resource reporting to be more interdisciplinary. There have been some notable advancements toward achieving such a goal, but even these tend to be limited to types of resources (e.g., natural vs. cultural) or functionality (e.g., monitoring vs. management treatments). Here we present ideas for taking interdisciplinary reporting a step further by crossing both disciplinary and functional boundaries with the hope that a more unified presentation of resource information will broaden the conceptualization of our resource stewardship.
Robert Bennetts, Network Program Manager, National Park Service, Des Moines, NM Andy Hubbard, Network Program Manager, National Park Service, Tucson, AZ To achieve our core NPS mission of resource protection, resource management and monitoring must be explicitly linked. At GWS 2009, we advocated the use of management assessment points as a bridge between science and management. Management assessment points are: “…pre-selected points along a continuum of resource-indicator values where scientists and managers have agreed to stop and assess the status or trend of a resource relative to program goals, natural variation, or potential concerns” (Bennetts et al. 2007). We applied the management assessment point approach to vegetation and soils monitoring efforts in the Sonoran Desert network parks. An evaluation of the approach, benefits, and “lessons learned” from their use with monitoring data will be discussed in the context of collaboration across disciplines to better meet the NPS resource protection mandate. Session 131 • Southdown (4th floor) • Day-Capper The Fifth Element: Beyond Earth, Air, Fire and Water Chair: Emma Lynch, Acoustical Resource Specialist, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO Ancient science categorized the world into four elements, with the fifth element— aether— being intangible, mysterious, and heavenly. Modern resource management has developed mature tools and methods for managing the traditional elements, while the ability to quantify resources such as soundscapes and night skies have emerged only recently. The National Park Service is hosting this open house to provide an opportunity for attendees to chat about acoustical and light pollution threats in their local area, examine field equipment, see the power of modeling, test their skills in a listening session, classify night sky quality, discuss outreach strategies one on one with specialists, and learn more about these “aetherial” resources. Drop in for free educational handouts, youth activities, interpretive handbooks, and CDs containing natural sounds and night sky images. Session 132 • Gallier A/B (4th floor) • Day-Capper A New Generation Honors George Wright’s Legacy: Climate Change Fellows and Interns in the National Parks Chairs: Lisa Norby, Acting George Melendez Wright Climate Change Youth Initiative Coordinator, National Park Service, Natural Resources Program Center, Geologic Resources Division, Lakewood, CO Gregg Garfin, Principal Investigator for the George Melendez Wright Climate Change Fellowship Program and Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Climate, Policy and Natural Resources, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Paul Dion, Principal Investigator for the George Melendez Wright Climate Change Internship Program and Director of Internship Programs, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, DC This day capper session will showcase the work done by National Park Service George Wright Climate Change Youth Initiative participants. In this year’s pilot program, 35 fellows and interns have contributed to the climate change knowledge base in the NPS. The session will be structured to maintain a lively flow and encourage audience participation. During the session, up to 20 students will present a brief vignette highlighting their project, significant findings, and something fun, unique or compelling gained from their experience. The students will be grouped according to themes (e.g., wildlife, vegetation, glaciers, and hydrology) to provide structure and help focus the discussion. After each group’s presentations there will be group participation, utilizing a “game show” format of audience questions and rapid panel responses to maintain a lively discussion. Session 133 • Nottoway (4th floor) • Invited Papers Collaborative Efforts of the Colorado River Parks Chairs: Jane Rodgers, Deputy Chief, Science & Resource Management (Socio-Cultural Resources), Grand Canyon National Park, Flagstaff, AZ Sandee Dingman, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Boulder City, NV Session overview: Working together has long been a National Park Service goal and necessity, but are parks truly able to collaborate on the ground? This session explores the possibilities presented when parks are co-located along a geographic theme. This session will introduce the Colorado River parks of Nevada, Arizona and Utah and share examples of partnership opportunities that are in process. We will reflect on how working together has and continues to be a challenge and explore some recent ways in which these challenges are being overcome.
Jane Rodgers, Deputy Chief Science and Resource Management (Socio-Cultural Resources), Grand Canyon National Park, Flagstaff AZ The Colorado River remains a source of adventure, history, water, wilderness, habitat and political intrigue. Along its course, the river is drawn into eight individual park units, crossing five U.S. states before gasping a final breath into the Gulf of California. At the headwaters is Rocky Mountain National Park, and from there the waterway winds through Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Resource managers in these parks collectively steward over 5.7 million acres. How could we better serve these parks by working together? What are our common themes? How can we turn the good idea of collaboration into practical reality? A recent workshop with four of the eight parks began answering these questions with action.
Curtis E. Deuser, Supervisory Restoration Ecologist, National Park Service, Lake Mead Exotic Plant Management Team, Boulder City, NV The Colorado River Watershed drains much of the western United States including millions of acres of National Park and Public Lands. This river system forms a unique juxtaposition of biological communities and recreational opportunities within an arid region. It is also an active byway and transportation corridor for exotic invasive plants. Systematic exotic plant control efforts, including both site-led and species-led management strategies, have been ongoing for decades. Recent expansion of the tamarisk leaf beetle (biological control agent) into the watershed creates an adaptive management opportunity for new species prioritization and restoration possibilities. Further development and enhancement of cooperative partnerships on a watershed scale will be essential to accomplish objectives resulting from this adaptive management process.
Alice Newton, Biologist, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Boulder City, NV Four park service units, Grand Canyon NP (GRCA), Glen Canyon NRA (GLCA), Lake Mead NRA (LAKE), and Parashant NM (PARA), manage areas along the Colorado River and share common resource concerns and issues. Among these are the administration of permitted grazing allotments, and the management of trespass and feral cattle, burros, buffalo hybrids, and other ungulates. GRCA has recently has reported burro sightings in areas previously believed burro free, and it appears that ingress from PARA and LAKE or from surrounding BLM lands has increased. GRCA also now has an established herd of hybrid beefalo along the north rim which originated from the House Rock Valley, AZ in the late 1990s. GLCA has authorized grazing administered by BLM, but experiences trespass grazing in addition to feral horses and burros in several areas. LAKE does not have active authorized use allotments, but suffers significant impacts from trespass cattle in several locations. Additionally, while the 1995 Burro Management Plan has been successful in removing over 2300 burros and making most areas of the park virtually burro free, burros still exist within the park and within adjacent BLM Herd Management Areas. PARA still has authorized grazing within the Monument, as well as issues related to trespass cows and feral burros. This discussion examines these issues, their impacts and implications for management, and potential solutions.
Dan Duriscoe, NPS Night Sky Team, Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, CA The area known as the Colorado Plateaus, centered roughly on the Arizona/Utah Border near the east-west center of the states, possesses some of the best conditions for visual observing of the night sky found anywhere on earth. The combination of clean air, a high percentage of cloudless nights throughout the year, and an absence of large cities producing a naturally dark night environment lead to an excellent opportunity for preserving this valuable resource. The concept of a dark sky reserve has been implemented successfully in Quebec, Canada, at Mont Megantic International Dark Sky Reserve. A cooperative effort of civic, private, and commercial groups produces a sense of community pride in the preservation and restoration of natural night skies. Data on night sky quality, air quality, and climate are presented along with an overview of the region’s geography with regard to suitability for International Dark Sky Reserve Status. The threats and opportunities posed by the growth of large metropolitan areas and transportation corridors in and near the region to the sustainability of a dark sky reserve are discussed. The processes of obtaining Dark Sky Reserve Certification from the International Dark Sky Association is outlined.
Rethinking Protected Area Zoning in a Changing World II Chairs: Catherine Dumouchel, Manager, Policy, National Parks Directorate, Parks Canada Agency, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada Denyse Lajeunesse, Species at Risk Program Coordinator, Parks Canada Agency, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada See under Session 115 for abstract.
Where are the S’mores and Who are All These People at the Campfire? Laurie Heupel, Outdoor Recreation Planner, National Park Service, Fairfax, VA Barbara Kubik, Past President, Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation The Lewis and Clark Bicentennial (2003-2006) gave rise to a series of innovative new partnerships that spanned several major watersheds. Staff from a variety of land management agencies, including the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the USDA Forest Service, explored a variety of partnering techniques in an effort to diversify the number and types of participants in the bicentennial commemoration. These new partnership efforts led to three important developments: new thinking about recreation and river management; bringing many diverse groups to the table; and reaching out to groups/partners that had been ignored for many decades. When these groups joined the discussions, many of the traditional partners gained new perspectives on river and watershed management. In this session, former Bicentennial participants share their experiences and lessons learned from the commemoration. This format involve in the building of S’mores to represent partnerships.
The Next Wave: Training & Capacity Building for Coastal and Marine Protected Area Managers Lauren Wenzel, National MPA System Coordinator, National Marine Protected Areas Center, Silver Spring, MD Mary Sue Brancato, Capacity Building Program, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, NOAA Do you have all the skills and information you need to manage your coastal or marine protected area (MPA)? Do you feel prepared for the challenges of adapting to climate change? Participating in coastal and marine spatial planning? Do you have the skills you need to advance your career as an MPA manager? NOAA’s National MPA Center and the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries are partnering with the National Park Service, USFWS and states to build the capacity of MPA programs to address these challenges. We’re developing a training and capacity building plan for coastal and marine protected areas, and need to hear from about your needs and priorities. Stop by add your priority needs to the scale and see if that tips the balance. See how your needs match up with staff from other MPAs around the US. Can you guess the three highest priorities?
Planning the Future of National Park Service International Programs Chair: Jonathan Putnam, International Cooperation Specialist, National Park Service, Office of International Affairs, Washington, DC Stephen Morris, Chief, National Park Service, Office of International Affairs, Washington, DC The year 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the National Park Service’s Office of International Affairs (OIA). This is an appropriate time to reflect on the NPS’s international mission and discuss where the international program should be heading over the next decade. What should NPS’s international priorities be? How can OIA better communicate the importance of international work to NPS staff, decision makers and the general public? What could OIA and others be doing to instill the international perspective into the NPS “culture?” Where are there opportunities to partner with other organizations to develop symbiotic relationships? All GWS attendees are welcome.
Meeting for Parks and Partners on Biodiversity Discovery Activities (All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventories, BioBlitzes, etc.) Chairs: Kirsten Leong, Human Dimensions Program Manager, Biological Resource Management Division, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO Sally Plumb, Biodiversity Coordinator, Biological Resource Management Division, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO Biodiversity Discovery activities in NPS range from All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventories (ATBIs), to large-scale BioBlitzes in partnership with National Geographic Society, and individual park efforts at varying scales. A subset of parks engaged in these activities have been meeting periodically since 2008 to cultivate a support network that allows parks to learn from each other’s experiences and expertise, develop best practices for the range of approaches to biodiversity discovery, and coordinate data management and sharing. These efforts have resulted in internal and external websites, a brochure and white paper summarizing activities across the system and resource needs, and a draft handbook to assist parks in conducting Biodiversity Discovery activities. In 2010, a national Biodiversity Coordinator was hired. This meeting will review materials developed to date, especially the Biodiversity Discovery Handbook, introduce the national coordinator, and identify other coordination needs and opportunities, especially for parks that have not been engaged to date."
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Invasive Plant Early Detection Protocols Chair: Craig Young, Biologist, National Park Service, Heartland I&M Network, Republic, MO In order to manage invasive exotic plants, national parks require methods for the early detection of such plants. Early detection increases the logistical and financial feasibility of controlling invasive exotic plants. In this session, inventory and monitoring staff involved in developing early detection protocols will review available protocols to highlight some of the major decisions encountered in developing these protocols. These decisions include prioritization of species, sampling design, data management, data analysis, and reporting. The session format will be rapid fire with eight presenters providing five minute overviews of their protocol and then spending an additional five minutes on unique elements of that protocol. These unique elements include use of opportunistic observations, monitoring in cultural landscapes, modeling based on field observations, partnerships, and interactions with exotic plant management teams.
Craig Young, Botanist, Heartland I&M Network, Republic, MO Integrated Analyses and Syntheses Dennis Odion and Daniel Sarr, Klamath I&M Network, Ashland, OR Monitoring Corridors and Hot Spots Using Sampling and Incidental Observations Dusty Perkins, Network Program Manager, Northern Colorado Plateau Network, Grand Junction, CO or Rebecca Weissinger, Ecologist, Northern Colorado Plateau Network, Moab, UT Partnerships and Communication Alison Ainsworth, Quantitative Ecologist, Pacific Island Network, Hawaii NP, HI Use of Volunteers Robert Steers, San Francisco Bay Area I&M Network, Point Reyes, CA Corridors of Invasiveness: NPS Exotic Plant Early Detection Monitoring Protocol for South Florida Kevin Whelan, Community Ecologist, South Florida/Caribbean Network, Palmetto Bay, FL Edge Effects Robert Bennetts, Network Program Manager, Southern Plains Network, Capulin, NM Early Detection Smartphone Software Bobbi Simpson, California Exotic Plant Management Team, Point Reyes, CA Session 141 • Rhythms II–III (2nd floor) • 2-hour Workshop Structured Decision-making: Linking Science and Management Chair: Maggie McCluskie, Program Manager, Central Alaska Network, National Park Service, Fairbanks, AK Management actions required by land managers are becoming increasingly complex. Structured Decision-making (SDM) is a means by which mangers can explicitly incorporate policy, laws and data to reach optimal decisions given the management objectives. In this workshop the SDM process will be described and case studies using the approach will be presented. Case studies include amphibian biodiversity management in National Capital Region parks, sea otter management in southwest Alaska, golden eagle management in Denali National Park and Preserve and wolf population management in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Park and Preserve. Application of Structured Decision Making to Sea Otter Management Jim Pederson, Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, USFWS, Corvallis, OR Management of Amphibian Populations in the National Capital Region Network of National Parks Evan Grant, Patuxent Research Center, USGS, Laurel, MD Wolf Population Management in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve and the Utility of Structured Decision Making Joshua Schmidt, Data Manager, Central Alaska Network, Fairbanks, AK Golden Eagle Management in Denali National Park and Preserve: A Case Study for Structured Decision Making Maggie McCluskie, Network Program Manager, Central Alaska Network, Fairbanks, AK Session 142 • Edgewood A/B (4th floor) • 2-hour Workshop Rethinking How We Communicate and Manage Invasive Species Chairs: Emily Gonzales, Bioregional Monitoring Ecologist, Parks Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Stephane Bruneau, Outreach Education Specialist, Parks Canada, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada Communication about invasive species rarely considers the audience’s knowledge, values or behaviors. Faced with a disengaged public, the fear tactics used to gain attention can further alienate visitors who view invasive species differently than conservation practitioners. This workshop provides an introduction to social marketing, which is the principle of connecting with the hearts, minds and muscles of the public by inducing behavioral change for the social good. Translating conservation objectives into public action requires identifying stakeholder viewpoints and overcoming barriers to change. We will discuss 6 steps that enable change: awareness, desire, facilitation, confidence, reinforcement, and motivation to develop an effective, integrated communication and management strategy on human-dimension conservation issues. We will demonstrate models of engagement, how to frame information in ways that are meaningful, and use new communication tools that reach diverse target groups.
NPS Network for Innovation Chairs: Nora Mitchell, Director, Conservation Study Institute, National Park Service, Woodstock, VT Brent Mitchell, Vice President, QLF Atlantic Center for the Environment, Ipswich, MA At the request of the NPS National Leadership Council, a working group of National Park Service staff in cooperation with the National Park System Advisory Board is currently exploring ways to more deliberately advance innovation, creativity and change and to contribute to leadership and organizational development through more effective sharing of experience and lessons learned across the system. An emerging concept of a “network of innovation” will be outlined as a framework for discussion. This informal meeting will briefly describe discussions to date, and invite ideas and comments. The session is open and not limited to NPS staff.
Data Management and GIS “Open House” II Chairs: Margaret Beer, Data Manager, National Park Service, Inventory & Monitoring Program, Fort Collins, CO See under Session 130 for abstract and list of participants. Download 1.6 Mb. Share with your friends:
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