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Presentations
from the
8th Annual Meeting of the Organization of
Fish and Wildlife Information Managers
Rapid City, South Dakota
September 25th-29th, 2003
SESSION 1 - Morning Presentations
Thursday - September 25, 2003
Presentations at the
OFWIM - 2003
Annual Meeting were presented in Power Point (Microsoft) format. We've asked
participants at the Annual Meeting for permission to post their presentations at the OFWIM Web Site.
The presentations from the First Session (on Thursday, September 25, 2003) are presented here.
Those presentations include:
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Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategies - Opportunities for Leadership (Becky Wajda)
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Conservation Planning Overview
(Jeff Lerner)
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Biotics 4: A New Tool for Comprehensive Wildlife Planning (Lori Scott)
Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategies
- Opportunities for Leadership
(Becky
Wajda)
Comprehensive
Through Congressional appropriation of funding for the Wildlife
Conservation and Restoration and State Wildlife Grants programs, the
States, Territories, and District of Columbia have been presented with a
unique opportunity. These
appropriations not only provide much needed funding for conservation of a
wide array of wildlife, but also require the recipient agencies to develop
a comprehensive wildlife conservation plan/strategy by October 2005. In the development of this document, each agency will identify
species of greatest conservation need and their habitats; threats to these
resources; and strategies/actions for conservation.
One of the most important aspects of the process,
however, is not found directly stated in any of the official documents. The development of the plan/strategy provides each fish and
wildlife agency with an excellent opportunity to demonstrate leadership,
not only in the planning and implementation of comprehensive wildlife
conservation, but in the formation and strengthening of partnerships. Ideally, all aspects of the plan/strategy will draw on numerous
information resources and mapping capabilities from within and outside of
the agency. Data sharing and information exchange with partners and
stakeholders will be lynchpins in the successful completion of the
plan/strategy. Upon
implementation, continued data sharing and information exchange will
provide a solid foundation for monitoring and reporting the success of
conservation actions and the adaptation of the strategies over time.
This presentation available as:
PowerPoint presentation: (Wajda1_OFWIM_2003.ppt):
http://www.ofwim.org/docs/2003/PPT/Wajda1_OFWIM_2003.ppt
Adobe Acrobat Reader file: (Wajda1_OFWIM_2003.pdf):
http://www.ofwim.org/docs/2003/PDF/Wajda1_OFWIM_2003.pdf
Conservation Planning Overview
(Jeff Lerner)
The State Wildlife Grant Program's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plans are an exciting opportunity
for the states but, to be truly successful, these plans must interface with other planning activities
in the states and move beyond piecemeal opportunistic land conservation. Conservation plans are
proliferating with the increasing use of GIS in the conservation community. Even before the State
Wildlife Grants Program was developed, many states and regions had embarked on sophisticated planning
efforts, sometimes with limited success. A review of the geographic extent of regional conservation
planning efforts across the United States is provided, as well as the barriers to integrating these
efforts with land-use planning, transportation, open space and agricultural programs. Habitat
Conservation Plans under the Endangered Species Act will also be discussed, along with their
increasing shift toward multi-species efforts, continuing problems and possible solutions.
This presentation available as:
PowerPoint presentation: (Lerner1_OFWIM_2003.ppt):
http://www.ofwim.org/docs/2003/PPT/Lerner1_OFWIM_2003.ppt
Adobe Acrobat Reader file: (Lerner1_OFWIM_2003.pdf):
http://www.ofwim.org/docs/2003/PDF/Lerner1_OFWIM_2003.pdf
Biotics 4: A New Tool for Comprehensive Wildlife Planning
(Lori Scott)
Comprehensive Wildlife Planning requires detailed information about the distribution, abundance,
and condition of the species in greatest need of conservation and their habitats. As fish and
wildlife information managers evaluate options for managing the data that will form the basis
of their comprehensive wildlife plans, the Biotics 4 software is emerging as an important tool.
Biotics 4 is the latest generation of software developed by NatureServe for use by the network
of state natural heritage programs to map and track the status and location of species and their
habitats. Since its release in November 2002, Biotics has been put into production in more than
twenty states and provinces across the United States and Canada. The enhanced functionality,
standardized data model, and improved spatial mapping standards offered by Biotics 4 allow
states and provinces to easily share information and evaluate species status and distribution on
regional, national and range-wide scales. This presentation illustrates (1) examples of data
types that can be managed in Biotics 4, and how these data can be used to support the
comprehensive wildlife planning process; and (2) practical information about how individual
fish and wildlife organizations can collaborate with NatureServe and its natural heritage
member programs to gain access to these data.
This presentation available as:
PowerPoint presentation: (Scott_OFWIM_2003.ppt):
http://www.ofwim.org/docs/2003/PPT/Scott_OFWIM_2003.ppt
Adobe Acrobat Reader file: (Scott_OFWIM_2003.pdf):
http://www.ofwim.org/docs/2003/PDF/Scott_OFWIM_2003.pdf
Other presentations from the OFWIM - 2003 Annual Meeting are to be found by "Session"
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