Conservation Leadership

Conservation Leadership Workshop
Saturday, July 26 – 10:00 a.m.
The purpose of this year’s Conservation Leadership Workshop is to provide conservation professionals hands on experience and tools useful in multi-party negotiations.  Participants will interact with each other in the context of a scenario based on an environmentally based conflict. The agenda for the workshop will include:

• A one hour presentation on the topic of climate change and how it impacts ecosystems and management strategies. Speaker: Gregg Garfin, Director of Outreach, ISPE - Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, University of Arizona
• One hour on new SWCS initiatives in professional development, corporate membership, and individual membership data and information. Speakers: Dewayne Johnson, Sue Ann Lynes and Lindey Krug, SWCS Headquarters
• A four-hour introduction to the practice of planning for and negotiating solutions to multi-party environmental conflicts. Training conducted by the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. www.ecr.gov
• Closing comments by Peggie James, SWCS President.

Workshop Fee: $45 ($55 late).
Lunch is on your own and is not included in the workshop registration fee.