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Objectives. Overview of How We Got Here Summary of Conserving the Future Community Partnership Implementation Team How to Get Involved. Staff and Friends of Plum Island in Green Bay NWR, in Lake Michigan, WI. Overview. How We Got Here. Core Teams of Service employees - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Objectives
Overview of How We Got Here
Summary of Conserving the Future
Community Partnership Implementation Team
How to Get Involved
Staff and Friends of Plum Island in Green Bay NWR, in Lake Michigan, WI
Overview
How We Got Here
• Core Teams of Service employees
• All programs, Refuge System disciplines
• Conserving the Future Conference
• 1,100 attendees, Hundreds more virtually
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.
“Friends groups are a refuge’s best ambassador in the community—sharing
knowledge with their neighbors…”
Chapter 1 Conserving the Future: Wildlife and Wildlands
• Assess land protection projects
• Landscape scale planning
• Nationally coordinated inventory and monitoring program
• State-of-the-art data management
Chapter 2 Connected Conservation Constituency
• Urban Refuge Initiative
• Strategic communications plan
• Develop and nurture friends groups or community partnerships
• Opportunities for hunting, Fishing and Outdoor Recreation
Volunteers at the Pelican Island Preservation Society's annual Wildlife Festival
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
Implementation Teams
Strategic Growth
Urban Wildlife Refuge Initiative
Leadership Development
Planning
Scientific Excellence
www.AmericasWildlife.org/vision
Communications
Community Partnerships
Hunting, Fishing, and Outdoor Recreation
Interpretation and Environmental Education
Community Partnerships
• Recommendation 11: Develop and nurture active and vibrant Friends groups or community partnerships for every staffed refuge or refuge complex.
• Recommendation 12: Develop a national strategy for recruiting, coordinating and supporting a more self-sustaining volunteer corps, while creating new opportunities for community involvement in implementing refuge priorities.
5 Sub-teams1. Strategic Plan for strengthening volunteer
programs, Friends organizations, and community partnerships
2. Handbook to guide volunteer, Friends and Community Partnership efforts
3. Web-Tools
4. Staff training
5. Friends Partnership Mentoring
Communications
How you can help
• Go online – www.AmericasWildlife.org
• Join the Community Partnerships
Social Network
• Provide comments and feedback- especially on products
• Bring the information back to your Board
Ways to Provide Feedback
• On www.AmericasWildlife.org for comments and feedback through the website’s social network
• Two other ways for public comments - an e-mail account and a mailing address:
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service NWRS-DVSC, Suite 634 4401 North Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22203 Attn: Vision Implementation Coordinator
Website
Join the Social Network
1) Go to www.AmericasWildlife.org
2) Sign up for the social network using your e-mail or through your Facebook
Join the Groups
• Within the Social Network
3) Click on Social Network, then Groups to the Community Partnerships Implementation Team
AmericasWildlife.org
Groups
4) Click on the team name
5) Click Join Group to become a member
Engagement
6) Once a member of the group, you can start discussion topics and post your comments
