[APWG] Fw: Registration is open for "Managing for Diversity Across Florida's Unique Landscapes" Dec. 9-11, 2008
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Registration is open!
Natural Areas Training Academy
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Managing for Diversity
Across Florida’s Unique Landscapes
Date: December 9-11, 2008
Location: Disney Wilderness Preserve, Kissimmee
Fee: $380.00 (early registration before November 7, 2008)
(fee includes registration, materials, and lunch daily)
This course is designed to introduce participants to the rich biological
diversity of Florida and to ensure that participants have an understanding
of the strategies used to protect biodiversity in Florida.
For more information and on-line registration please visit the Natural
Areas Training Academy web site at: http://nata.snre.ufl.edu/
Course Coordinators: Daniel Husband and Chris Matson, The Nature
Conservancy
Biodiversity:
Participants will be introduced to Florida's ecological regions,
regions of endemism, and information on endemic plants and animals.
Participants will be introduced to sources of information on
Florida's biodiversity. Including but not limited to the Florida
Natural Areas Inventory, Florida's Greenways and Trails project,
Closing the Gaps Project, etc.
Participants will be introduced to the types of threats to diversity
that result from resource management activities, historic and
current. They will also be exposed to the impacts of lack of
management and human uses.
Emphasis will be placed on the importance of protecting native ground
cover, reducing soil disturbance, and restoring natural hydroperiod
and fire regimes.
Restoration:
Participants will be introduced to the role of restoration in
protecting and maintaining diversity in Florida. Why is restoration
occurring in Florida?
Participants will be exposed to different examples of current
restoration projects-large and small scale, upland and wetland.
Participants will be provided information on how to determine when
restoration is essential to protect a given natural area and its
function. Information sources for planning and executing restoration
projects will also be provided.
Non-native species:
Participants will become familiar with the most invasive exotic
species in Florida. They will be able to identify at least one of the
most threatening known to occur in each of the major habitat types.
Participants will be introduced to current control practices used to
address a cross section of the most invasive plants.
Participants will be introduced to the Exotic Pest Plant Council and
other information on exotic pest species.
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/
Managing for Diversity Across Florida’s Unique Landscapes
The Disney Wilderness Preserve
Kissimmee, Florida
Draft Agenda
subject to change
December 9, 2008
8:30 – 9:00 Registration/check-in
9:00 – 9:30 Introductions
9:30 – 10:00 What is biodiversity?
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:10 Biodiversity in Florida
Sources of information on biodiversity and threatened species
and communities
11:10 – 12:00 Using GIS to model species viability and habitat needs
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 1:20 Threats to biodiversity and consequences of loss
Information on laws regarding biodiversity protection
1:20 – 2:30 Abating threats – uplands, wetlands, and coastal systems
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:15 Defining restoration
3:15 – 3:45 Knowing when to restore
3:45 – 5:00 The restoration process
5:00 – 6:00 Restoring process: hydrology and fire – Field
December 10, 2008
8:30 – 9:00 Orientation to field exercises
9:00 – 12:00 Process restoration Field, continued
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:10 Biodiversity review
1:10 – 1:30 Non-native plant species invading Florida’s
natural areas: Identifying and regulating
1:30 – 2:30 General pesticide registration, labeling, rules, and
certification
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:30 Non-native animals invading Florida’s natural areas
3:30 – 5:30 Restoring species – Field upland
December 11, 2008
8:30 – 12:00 Upland species restoration – Field, continued
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:45 Field restoration exercise discussion
Sources of information on restoration
1:45 – 2:00 Break
2:00 – 3:15 Fire versus other vegetation structure management
3:15 – 3:30 Certificates awarded
3:30 – 4:00 Summary and evaluations
Instructors may include:
Nancy Bissett, Horticulturalist, The Natives
Dan Husband, The Nature Conservancy
Ed Edmundson, EJ Environmental Services, Inc.
Monica Folk, Ph.D., The Nature Conservancy
Chris Matson, The Nature Conservancy
Bob Nelson, The Nature Conservancy
Kristina Serbesoff-King, The Nature Conservancy
______________________________________________________________
Linda Demetropoulos
Natural Areas Training Academy
UF/IFAS Wildlife Ecology & Conservation
PO Box 110430
Gainesville, FL 32611
T: (352) 392-3210 / F: (352) 392-6984
demetrop at ufl.edu
http://nata.snre.ufl.edu
(See attached file: MFD_Flyer_08.pdf)(See attached file: NATA Schedule
2008-2009.pdf)
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