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Workshop
#1: Biological Assessments: Expediting Section 7 Consultations
Preparing an adequate Biological Assessment (BA) is a key to expediting
Section 7 Endangered Species Act consultations with the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. NMFS
personnel will discuss what information is required and recommended
and why, with the goal of better and faster opinions. Topics will include:
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writing complete project descriptions
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assessing direct, indirect, and cumulative effects
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making effects determinations
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the ESA/NEPA and the ESA/EFH interface
Date: Monday, April 14, 2003, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Fee: $60, AFS members; $75 non-members
Enrollment: 18 minimum, 30 maximum
Instructor: Penny Ruvelas, NMFS
Workshop
#2: Biotelemetry Systems: Theoretical and Practical Considerations
This course will examine biotelemetry from both a theoretical and practical
perspective. The goal of the workshop is to impart a good understanding
of benefits and tradeoffs which must be made during the study design
phase of a project. This will permit researchers employing biotelemetry
to make informed decisions during the selection of system components,
helping to ensure the ultimate success of their projects. The ultimate
goal of the workshop is not to turn biologists into engineers, but to
impart an awareness and appreciation of methods and techniques which
can be readily employed to maximize system performance.
Date: Monday, April 14, 2003, 8:00 AM
to 5:00 PM
Fee: $80, AFS members; $100 non-members
Enrollment: 18 minimum, 24 maximum
Instructor: Mitchell M. Sisak, Applied Biometrics Inc.
Workshop
#3: Conflict Resolution Skills for Natural Resource Professionals
There is no shortage of conflict that natural resource professionals
are asked to deal with. Natural resource issues elicit strong passions
because decision making materially affects people’s lives or there
are radically different core values involved. People also have different
conflict management styles that often make matters worse. Because resource
professionals are usually involved in the early stages of a conflict
they are well placed to apply conflict resolution skills before matters
escalate to higher, often highly adversarial levels. Drawing on basic
mediation techniques professionals can diagnose the causes of conflict
and move a developing resource dispute from a "me-against-you"
to an "us-against-the-problem” dialog. This workshop introduces
conflict resolution skills that natural resource professionals can use
to manage conflict.
Date: Monday, April 14, 2003, 8:00 AM
to 5:00 PM
Fee: $80, AFS members; $100 non-members
Enrollment: 18 minimum, 30 maximum
Instructor: Michael E. Fraidenburg, Dynamic Solutions
Group, LLC
Workshop
#4: AFS Leadership Principles Workshop
This workshop targets AFS Division and Chapter leaders. Leadership training,
especially as it pertains to AFS business, is critically important to
achieving success. This workshop’s goal is to enhance your leadership
skills to give you the tools (literally and figuratively) that you will
need to be an effective leader, both within and beyond AFS.
Date: Monday, April 14, 2003, 2:00 to
5:00 PM
Fee: Free, but please complete the enrollment form
Instructors: Carl Burger, Fred Harris, and others.
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Attention all Division, Chapter
and Future Leaders……
Our Division/Cal-Neva Annual Meeting
has the great distinction of being the site of the Spring 2003 American
Fisheries Society (AFS) Leadership Principles Workshop. This extremely valuable workshop is scheduled from 2:00 to
5:00pm on Monday, April 14th at the Hyatt’s Islands
“A”. Please adjust
your calendars now and plan on attending. And the best part is…it’s FREE!!
Leadership training, especially as it
pertains to your AFS business, is critically important to
achieving success. This workshop’s goal is to enhance your leadership skills to give you the
tools (literally and figuratively) that you will need to be an effective leader, both within
and beyond AFS.
The agenda includes top-notch
presentations from AFS Past President Carl Burger on “Leadership from
an Officers Perspective” and AFS President Fred Harris on “AFS
Ethics and Policies”. Other speakers will include AFS Executive Director Gus
Rassam,
AFS 1st Vice-President Barb Knuth, and AFS’s former
Constitutional Consultant Joe Margraf. These leaders will guide you through discussions on
team-building, strategic planning, visioning, delegation, and other
traits of effective leaders.
Please pass this announcement around and be sure to
take advantage of this rare opportunity. For further information, contact Tom McMahon at 602-789-3216 or
email tmcmahon@gf.state.az.us. |
Deadline for Enrollment for all workshops is April 1,
2003. If minimum enrollment is not meet by April 1, a workshop may be
cancelled. If there is space available, you can enroll up to the date
of the workshops, April 14, 2003, on-site (Registration will be open
at 7:15 AM).
Enrollment Form:
Mail Enrollment Form to:
Kathy Hieb
c/o CDFG
4001 N. Wilson Way
Stockton, CA 95205
For more information, please contact Kathy Hieb at khieb@delta.dfg.ca.gov
or (209) 942-6078. Prefer email inquiries.
REFUNDS: Cancellations prior to April 1, 2003, will be
refunded the full enrollment fee minus a $20 administrative fee. NO
REFUNDS after April 1, 2003
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