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From The Director

Future Challenges:

August 10 -13, 2004: Future Challenges Workshop at NCTC

• Director's Future Challenges Message
• Future Challenges Project: Meeting the Grand Challenge
• Agenda from Future Challenges Workshop
• Power Points from Workshop Speakers
  • "The Role of Science in The Reallocation of Water" -- Robert Hirsch, Associate Director for Water, USGS
  • "Drivers of Change" -- Anthony Janetos, Vice President, Heintz Center
  • "Apply Modern Biotechnology" -- Anne Kapuscinski, Professor/Director/Specialist, Fisheries and Conservation Biology/ISEES/Aquaculture and Biotechnology, U. of Minnesota
  • "Climate Science Change: Science, Concerns, & Research Needs" -- Dennis Ojima, Scientist/Professor, NREL/Colorado State University
  • "Invasive Alien Species" -- Jamie Reaser, President/CEO,
    Ecos Systems Institute
• Bios of Speakers
  • Robert Hirsch
  • Anthony Janetos
  • Anne Kapuscinski
  • Dennis Ojima
  • Jamie Reaser
• Break Out Session Reports
  • Biotechnology
  • Climate Change
  • Invasives Species
  • Water Resources
• Literature Summary
• Challenge Papers

February 2, 2005: FWS/USGS Join Leadership Meeting on Future Challenges

Service Science Committee:

• Establishment of Service Science Committee
• Science Committee Charter

Getting Started with SHC

• NEAT Report (pdf file for download)
• Technical Guide for Implementing Elements of the SHC Framework (PDF file)
• Basic guidance for implementing the SHC Framework
• Overview of SHC Roles, Responsibilities and the Scales at which they apply
• How SHC Population Objectives fir into Conservation of Healthy Ecosystems
• State Wildlife Action Plans and SHC - How can they work together?
• An Example of SHC - Lesser Prairie Chicken Program
• PowerPoint Presentations for use at meeting

Science Committe:

• Establishment of Service Science Committee
• Science Committee Charter
  
• OPM Peer Review Document

Partnerships:

• July 1, 2003 - Williams-Groat Memo
• FWS/USGS Directors' Meeting Notes:
  • July 29, 2003
  • September 17, 2003
  • December 22, 2003
  • March 02, 2004 (Future Challenges Proposal)
  • April 16, 2004
  • June 30, 2004
  • Decmber 02, 2004
  • November 18, 2005
• Science Summit Agenda for October 30 - 31, 2003
• Contacts:
  • USGS Liaisons to USFWS Employees
  • USFWS Contacts for USGS Employees

Literature

Strategic Habitat Conservation:

• FWS Vision for SHC
• MORE on SHC
• MORE on the Framework
• MORE on the Guiding Principles of SHC
• NEAT Report (pdf file for download)
• Technical Guide for Implementing Elements of the SHC Framework (pdf file for downloading)
• Basic guidance for implementing the SHC Framework
• Overview of SHC Roles, Responsibilities and the Scales at which they apply
• How SHC Population Objectives fir into Conservation of Healthy Ecosystems
• State Wildlife Action Plans and SHC - How can they work together?
• Information on products from the Structured Decision Making workshop in LaCrosse, WI (with application to SHC), please follow this link - January 14-18, 2008 SDM/SHC workshop in LaCrosse, WI
• Information on products from the Structured Decision Making workshop (with application to SHC), please follow this link - January 28 - February 1, 2008 SDM Workshop at NCTC
• An Example of SHC - Lesser Prairie Chicken Program
• PowerPoint Presentations for use at meetings
• List of NCTC Training that supports capacity for SHC

Information Quality

Peer Review of Scientific Information

FWS Publication System:

• North American Fauna
• Journal of Fish and Wildlife
• Manuscript Administrative Record System
• Submission, Review and Publication Process
• Editorial Staff
• 2006 Publication Report