conserving the future overview

Overview

• Overview - How We Got Here

• Summary of the Conserving the Future Vision

• A Final Call to Action - Conclusion

• Open Discussion

Overview

Overview

We need you.

Which challenges will you accept?

Which future will you make?

How We Got Here

How We Got Here

• Core Teams of Service employees

• All programs, Refuge System disciplines

• Conserving the Future Conference

• 1,100 attendees, Hundreds more virtually

How We Got Here

• Public participation process

10,000 comments!

• AmericasWildlife.org

2,300 members

240 bold ideas

Final Document

• Released online October 20, 2011

• 24 recommendations

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Implementation

• Implementation Teams

• strategic growth; urban wildlife refuges; leadership; planning; scientific excellence; community partnerships; hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation; and interpretation and education.

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Implementation

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Conserving the Future

• Vision: Engage the American people, so that we better understand their expectations and they are increasingly aware of the National Wildlife Refuge System and its role in conservation.

• Chapter 1: Conserving the Future, Wildlife and Wildlands

• Chapter 2: Connected Conservation Constituency

• Chapter 3: Leading Conservation into the Future

Conserving the Future

• 24 recommendations, including

• Plan for strategic growth

• Urban wildlife refuge initiative

• Increase quality hunting and fishing

• Inventory and monitoring

• Climate change strategy for the Refuge System

Wildlife and Wildlands

Chapter 1 Conserving the Future: Wildlife and Wildlands

• Assess land protection projects

• Clear research agenda

• Nationally coordinated inventory and monitoring program

• State-of-the-art data management

Connected Conservation Constituency

Chapter 2 Connected Conservation Constituency• Public Stewardship

• Urban Refuge Initiative

• Strategic communications plan

• Ensure refuges are welcoming, safe, and accessible

• Interpretation and environmental education

Leading Conservation into the Future

Chapter 3 Leading Conservation into the Future

• Evaluation team for organizational realignments or programmatic efficiencies

• Service’s workforce match the diversity in the civilian labor force, within a decade

Conserving the Future

• Conserving the Future acknowledges that strategic, collaborative, science-based landscape conservation – along with effective public outreach, education, and environmental awareness – is the only path forward to conserve America’s wildlife and wild places.

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Open Discussion

How do you want to be involved in implementation?

What future do you want for wildlife?

Conserving the Future

Final Call to Action

What challenges will you accept, and which future will you make?