[mou] Fwd: Deadline for Golden-winged Warbler Workshop Approaches!

[Jim Williams]

Forward by Jim Williams
Wayzata

Begin forwarded message:

From: Tom Will <Tom_Will@FWS.GOV>
Date: July 5, 2005 2:21:13 PM CDT
To: MWPART-L@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Deadline for Golden-winged Warbler Workshop Approaches!
Reply-To: Tom_Will@FWS.GOV

July 9 is the deadline for early registration and for making room 
reservations for the Golden-winged Warbler Conservation Workshop 
planned for August 10-12 in Siren, Wisconsin. ... Visit the workshop 
website at  http://www.grantsburg.k12.wi.us/gwwa/.

  The Golden-winged Warbler Conservation Workshop is designed for 
biologists, researchers, conservation planners, managers, and for 
anybody interested in improving the status of Golden-wings, whether you 
work for a state or federal agency, conservation NGO, academic or 
research institution, local planning or management unit, or private 
industry. Concerned citizens and birders and are also encouraged to 
attend.

  This will be the first workshop focused solely on Golden-winged 
Warblers throughout the entire range of the species, including the 
wintering grounds in Central America and northwestern South America. We 
will have representatives from the neotropics with us to help us plan a 
comprehensive conservation strategy for the species. The workshop will 
feature a field trip to important GWWA habitats in Minnesota and 
Wisconsin and opportuities for on-the-spot discussions of pratical 
management actions that would benefit GWWAs in these habitats.

  This is a workshop you will not want to miss! For those unfamiliar 
with the conservation planning/implementation continuum, the workshop 
will provide a complete overview of the entire process as well as an 
opportunity to explore some of the details of continental assessment, 
identification of reasons for decline, genetics, population and habitat 
modeling, definition of research priorities, management scenarios, 
conservation action, and evaluation and monitoring. Most importantly, 
the workshop will provide the background and the opportunity for 
participants to help draft an action plan for Golden-wings within the 
context of all-bird conservation. The processes and skills employed in 
the workshop should serve as a model for similar actions for other 
species.

  Plan now to attend!

(See attached file: Golden-winged Warbler Workshop Info.pdf)(See 
attached file: GWWA Workshop Agenda 7-4.doc)


  Tom Will
  U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service
  Partners in Flight Midwest Regional Coordinator
  Golden-winged Warbler Conservation Working Group