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Newsletter: May 2008
April 2008; March 2008; February 2008; December2007/January 2008; November, 2007; October 2007; September 2007; August 2007;
July 2007;
June 2007;
May 2007 |
RM-CESU
Project:
“Ranching
Through Time”
The “Ranching Through
Time”
exhibit ready for visitor enjoyment.
NPS
and Montana State University
create a new exhibit at Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic
Site
Read
more
Professor Bill Rea and
students install the exhibit.
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May 5, 2008: Spring 2008 RM-CESU Executive Committee Meeting, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO. Notes
Additional handouts: BLM's Healthy Lands Inititiative: Overview; New Mexico-Landscape Restoration San Juan Basin and Permian Basin; Utah-Watershed Restoration; Southern Idaho-Snake River Plain;Colorado Landscape Conservation
Intership Proposals: Presentation and Handout
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Three Graduate Students Receive 2008 Jerry O'Neal National Park Service Student Fellowships: Three students at Rocky Mountains CESU universities received student awards to conduct research at Glacier National Park, as part of the Jerry O'Neal, National Park Service Student Fellowship program. This student award is named for the former deputy superintendent at Glacier NP, in honor of his dedication to science and research in the NPS. This program is administered by the University of Montana, with funds provided by the Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier NP and NPS RM-CESU. The award recipients, who will begin their field work in summer 2008, include:
- Lauren Barringer, biology graduate student at the University of Colorado-Denver, “Determine the relationship between whitebark pine tree-and-stand-level health and seed dispersal by Clark’s nutcrackers: What is the Potential for Regeneration?”
- Michael Machura, biological sciences graduate student at the University of Montana, “The Importance of Genetics in Understanding Global Amphibian Decline: An Application of Conservation Genetics to Boreal Toads (Bufo boreas) in Glacier National Park”
- Karin Riley, geology graduate student at the University of Montana, “Assessing Wildfire Effects from Microscale to landscape Scale in the Red Eagle Fire Area, Glacier National Park, Montana”
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March 25-27, 2008 “Wilderness Stewardship in the Rockies 2008," Glacier National Park, MT. RM-CESU: The University of Montana, Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center and the National Park Service, Intermountain Region provided the organization and support for the fifth annual Wilderness Workshop. This meeting, held over three days at Glacier NP, was attended by wilderness professionals from the USDA-Forest Service, Parks Canada, the University of Montana, and park staff from Glacier, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Great Sand Dunes, Dinosaur, Olympic, Rocky Mountain and Saguaro. This informal workshop covered topics from “Risk and Safety in Wilderness” to “What is Wilderness Worth?”, and focused on exchange of information among the managers from different agencies. Agenda; Notes
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June 18-19, 2008: 2008 Biennial Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Network National Meeting, Washington, DC. Please see the CESU Network’s conference page for information on registration, lodging, discussion and poster sessions, and program agendas. Early registration ends May 13.
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workshops, meetings, courses, etc.
May 8-13, 2008: Canadian Parks for Tomorrow 40th Anniversary Conference, University of Calgary, Calagary, AB. University of Calgary will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the 1968 Canadian National Parks, Today and Tomorrow Conference, one that helped define the role of parks in Canada in light of international experience. Since then Canada has emerged as a world leader in parks and protected areas. Four decades after 1968 Canadians and global partners will again gather at the University to consider the role of parks and protected areas in our country and internationally.
May 20-23, 2008: Comprehensive Resource Management in the NPS Intermountain Region, Tucson, AZ. The conference is an opportunity for park managers, resource managers and specialists, and other participants to present and discuss timely cultural, natural, and integrated resource management issues facing parks in the Intermountain Region.
May 22-23, 2008: Restoration Institute 2008: Alien Invasive Species Management, University of Victoria in Victoria, BC. UM's College of Forestry and Conservation is co-sponsoring this meeting.
June 2-4, 2008: Communicating About Climate Change: A Governor’s Initiative Toward a Sustainable West, Denver Inverness Hotel. Sponsored by: Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University. Overall Purpose: To improve coordination of climate change communication and education efforts by public land management agencies in the Western U.S. This invitation-only event will bring together approximately two dozen key representatives from public land management and environmental agencies with a long and trusted history of expertise on environmental topics. Day 1 will include presentations of key information about climate change and effective communication strategies. Presenters will include scientists from the Nobel prize-winning IPCC and experts on environmental communication. Day 2 will be an interactive session engaging participants in development of a core communication strategy. The strategy will identify core message content as well as processes for reviewing and disseminating messages to ensure broad adoption and implementation by agencies throughout the Western U.S.
June 4-6, 2008. Shifting Baselines & New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformaiton of the American West, Natural Resources Law Center Annual Summer Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
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CESU
Network News & Events |
Thomas E. Fish, Ph.D., National Coordinator
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Network
Main Interior Building
1849 C Street NW, Room #2723
Washington, DC 20240
Office: 202.208.5972
Fax: 202.208.3060
Email: Tom_Fish@nps.gov
The
CESU Network has launched a redesigned web site at its new
location. Check it out
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The
Fourth CESU Network National Meeting, June 21-23, 2005
The CESU Annual Meeting, convened at the AAAS headquarters
in Washington, DC, was the biennial gathering of the 17 CESU
partners. The Rocky Mountains CESU was well-represented by
members from University of Montana, University of Colorado-Boulder,
University of Idaho, Utah State University, BLM. BOR, NPS
and USDA-FS. Perry Brown, chair of the RM CESU chaired a workshop
session on funding opportunities for university members of
CESUs. The Tehabi internship project, an RM CESU sponsored
project at Utah State University (and nominated for a national
award), was presented to the plenary gathering by Ben Baldwin
(USU) and Ben Bobowski (NPS).
Copies
of all presentations from the national meeting, including
federal agency needs presentations, are available on the
National CESU web site.
November 16, 2005 Briefing
Statement for Current CESUs
Relevant
Events with other regional CESUs
Fall Issue of the South Caribbean CESU Newsletter is available. click here!
The
Summer 2007 Pacific Northwest CESU Newsletter
is now available on their web-site. Visit Cooperative
Ventures.
Issue includes Feature Article - Lichen Ecology in the Western
Arctic Parklands, Alaska Project Activity, Subsistence Production
and Family Networks in Buckland, Alaska, Partner Profile
University of Alaska Southeast (UAS), PNW CESU Update, and
Announcements.
The
March 2007 issue of the Great Plains-CESU
Newsletter is now available, click
here!
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