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Registration is open!
Natural Areas Training Academy
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Conservation Site Assessment and Planning
Date: September 23-25, 2008
Location: Disney Wilderness Preserve, Kissimmee
Fee: $380.00
(fee includes registration, materials, and lunch daily)
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the participant to assessment
and planning techniques being successfully used in Florida.
For more information and on-line registration please visit the Natural
Areas Training Academy web site at: http://nata.snre.ufl.edu/
Site Assessment
▪Participants will be introduced to the role information plays in
developing effective natural areas management plans. They will be
exposed to the types of ecological and cultural information that can
be used to form the foundation of a plan. Sources of information for
Florida will be made available.
▪Participants will be exposed to the role ecological modeling plays
in providing input and direction to the planning process.
▪Participants will conduct a field site assessment for a case-study area.
Site Planning
▪Using the same case-study and site assessment information as
mentioned above, participants will engage in a process of setting
conservation targets and defining goals for those targets
▪Participants will determine threats to the existence of the stated
conservation targets, prioritize the threats, and determine
strategies to abate the high priority threats.
▪Participants will develop a basic action plan and budget to
implement strategies to abate threats.
▪Participants will determine how to plan for public use of the
case-study natural area using use zones can be implemented within the
limits set by the needs of priority conservation targets
▪Participants will outline a plan as to how to identify and involve
stakeholders in the planning process
▪Participants will compare their plans to the plan that is in place
at the case-study site.
Lunch is included daily.
For more information and on-line registration please visit the Natural
Areas Training Academy web site at: http://nata.snre.ufl.edu/
Conservation Site Assessment and Planning
Disney Wilderness Preserve, Kissimmee
September 23-25, 2008
Draft Agenda
Subject to change
September 23, 2008
8:30 Check-in/Registration
9:00 Welcome, warm up and introductions
9:30 Elements of a good management plan
10:00 Break
10:15 Overview of TNC's Conservation Action Planning process
10:35 Site assessment
11:00 Case study background/maps and aerials
11:45 Case study site tour
1:00 Working lunch/work with maps
2:00 Site assessment group exercises (field)
4:15 Prepare site assessment posters (work
session)
5:15 Poster session/social mixer
5:35 Review case study site assessment
September 24, 2008
8:30 Warm-up activity
8:45 TNC Conservation Action Planning Process
10:00 Break
10:15 TNC Conservation Action Planning Process continued
11:15 Strategy development exercise
12:30 Picnic Lunch (weather permitting)
2:00 Group report and discussion
3:00 Case study management plan review/discussion
3:30 Break
3:45 Operational planning
4:00 Operational planning team exercise
September 25, 2008
8:30 Warm-up activity
8:45 Sarasota County Management Planning (Belinda Perry)
9:30 SWFWMD land management planning process (Kevin Love)
10:15 Break
10:30 FFWCC OBVM and other planning initiatives (Kathleen
Swanson)
11:15 FDEP/Florida Park Service Conservation planning for
recreation (invited)
12:00 Lunch
1:00 USFS National Forest System Land Management Planning
(Carl Petrick)
1:45 Panel Discussion and Q & A (Team)
2:15 Elements of a good management plan/discussion
3:00 Wrap up/Evaluations
3:15 Presentation of certificates
4:00 Adjourn
Instructors include: Monica Folk and Gene Kelly with The Nature
Conservancy. Invited guest speakers include: Belinda Perry, Sarasota
County Natural Resources, Kevin Love, Southwest Florida Water Management
District, Kathleen Swanson, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission, Lew Scruggs, Florida Division of Recreation and Parks, and Carl
Petrick, National Forests in Florida.
Linda Demetropoulos, Manager
Natural Areas Training Academy
The Nature Conservancy/
University of Florida/IFAS Extension
School of Natural Resources and Environment
P.O. Box 110230, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
Phone (352) 392-3210
FAX (352) 392-7383
LDemetropoulos at TNC.org
http://nata.snre.ufl.edu
(See attached file: NATA Schedule 2008-2009.pdf)(See attached file:
CSA&P_Flyer_08.pdf)
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