The WHC Conservation Conference 2016 hosted more than 375 attendees, sponsors and exhibitors for two full days of learning, networking and celebrating. We honored more companies, programs and projects than ever before, awarding 22 WHC Awards, recognizing excellence in corporate conservation.
On Day 1 we were treated to WHC leadership, Kevin Butt, Director, North American Environmental Division, Toyota Motor North America, Inc., and Chairman, WHC, and Margaret O’Gorman, President, WHC, delivering a State of Corporate Conservation, summarizing our achievements, but also encouraging us to strive for even greater successes.
On Day 2, our panel discussion, Reimagining the Corporate Campus, reminded us that corporate conservation is not just about data and results, but also about the aesthetic component that contributes not only to nature, but to human enjoyment and satisfaction. We concluded the Conference that evening at our WHC Awards Dinner, bestowing our top awards on General Motors and CEMEX.
Congratulations to all of our award winners. Click on the Awards tab above for the complete list of winners and nominees.
See you next year in Baltimore, November 8-9!
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Winners will be presented with awards during the Conference, Nov. 2-3. Click on the Awards tab above to view the nominees.
Join leaders in corporate social responsibility, environmental health and safety, government agencies and NGOs – all working to create and maintain healthy ecosystems.
The Conservation Conference, Nov. 2-3 at the Hilton Baltimore, is the leading conference of corporate and conservation professionals who come together for a 2-day experience of learning, networking and celebrating corporate conservation achievements. At the Conservation Conference, we’re focused on discussions that are important for corporate conservation, employee engagement and community relations. Gain valuable information and strategies to face the issues and challenges of corporate biodiversity programs, and learn techniques and best practices for successful wildlife and habitat management.
Registration 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Breakfast 7:00 am – 9:00 am
Registration 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Exhibitor Setup 7:00 am – 10:00 am
Exhibit Hall Open 10:00 am – 5:30 pm
Breakout Session 8:00 am – 11:30 am
Breakout Sessions 8:00 am – 9:15 am
Breakout Sessions 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Breakout Sessions 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Lunch and General Session 12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Presenters: Kevin Butt, Director, North American Environmental Division, Toyota Motor North America, Inc., and Chairman, WHC | Margaret O’Gorman, President, WHC
Breakout Sessions 1:50 pm – 2:50 pm
Break 2:50 pm – 3:30 pm
Sponsored by Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
General Session 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Sponsored by Lafarge, Holcim and Aggregate Industries
Presenters: Dave Chanda, Director, New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife, and President of AFWA | David Evans, Director, US EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans & Watersheds | Matthew Jeffery, Director for the Caribbean and Deputy Director (International Alliances Program), National Audubon Society | Hilary Smith, Invasive Species Coordinator, Department of the Interior
Breakfast and General Session 7:00 am – 8:45 am
Sponsored by Monsanto Company
Presenters: Claudia West, Landscape Designer and Author | Naomi Edelson, Senior Director, Wildlife Partnerships, National Wildlife Federation | Derek Fairclough, Senior Vice President, Environmental, Health and Safety, BASF Corporation
Registration 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Exhibit Hall Open 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Breakout Sessions 9:00 am – 10:15 am
Break 10:15 am – 10:45 am
Breakout Sessions 10:45 am – 11:45 am
Lunch and General Session 12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Presenters: Dr. Alex Ireland, Scientific Associate, Environmental Sciences, ExxonMobil
Breakout Sessions 1:50 pm – 2:50 pm
Breakout Sessions 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
WHC Certification Photography Sessions 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Networking Reception 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Sponsored by Bacardi U.S.A., Inc.
Dinner and Awards Presentation 6:30 pm – 9:15 pm
Sponsored by ExxonMobil
New this year!
Learning series specific to your needs. Whether you are a manager new to corporate conservation or a seasoned sustainability executive, we’re creating a series of sessions designed with your priorities in mind.
Corporate Series
Designed for corporate executives and conservation leaders with sustainability, biodiversity and budget goals in mind, this series of sessions will focus on corporate challenges and issues that affect a company’s reporting, conservation efforts, and employee and community relations.
Technical Series
Looking to take your program to the next level with additional conservation actions and alignments? Establishing, maintaining and reviewing credibility of your programs not only promotes biodiversity efforts, but will also yield a greater ROI. This series of sessions offers real-world solutions to enhancing conservation efforts.
Starter Series
If you are new to conservation, or just starting a new conservation project, consider our Starter Series – designed to educate and instruct attendees on basic corporate conservation goals, strategies and outcomes. You’ll walk away with tangible actions you can take back to your company for implementation.
Collaborating for the SDGs
When the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015, one of the biggest changes from the Millennium Development Goals was the acknowledgement that tri-sector partnerships were essential to meeting these goals and that no single entity could solve the problems alone. SDG 15 seeks the sustainable use of ecosystems and the reversal of land degradation. Actions towards this goal can also impact many of the other goals. Our panel of experts will explore the intersections between the SDGs and show how corporate volunteerism, systems approaches, and finance and investment can make a difference. It would also look at opportunities for socializing the SDGs across the various corporate functions. Corporate Series
Corporate Quick-Fires: Conservation Update for the Executive
Moderated by Margaret O’Gorman, President, Wildlife Habitat Council
Four Quick-Fire speakers offer short presentations on relevant topics with time for Q/A. Corporate Series
Designing the New Corporate Campus – Landscaping Workshop
Presenters: Claudia West, Landscape Designer and Author | Naomi Edelson, Senior Director, Wildlife Partnerships, National Wildlife Federation
This workshop immediately follows the General Session, Reimagining the Corporate Campus, which discusses the high potential for biodiversity on corporate campus landscapes. This in-depth workshop that will include principles of landscaping design and successful native planting. Noted author and designer Claudia West and Naomi Edelson of the National Wildlife Federation will offer tips on techniques on how to plant the most wildlife-supporting native plants. Technical Series
Every Act of Conservation Matters: Establishing Your Program
Presenter: WHC Strategy and Planning staff
During this comprehensive two-hour session, attendees will learn how to use WHC Project Guidance documents to begin a planning and visualization process to build a program that so your team can make “every act of conservation matter.” Learn about creating a realistic timeline, estimating costs and building your team. We’ll share common pitfalls and challenges, and often-overlooked steps that can make your programs strong and enduring. Starter Series
Exclusive One-on-One Meeting with a WHC Strategy and Planning Team Member (By Appointment Only)
Schedule a one-on-one, hour-long meeting on November 3 with a member of our WHC Strategy and Planning team to ask questions, seek feedback, discuss challenges and opportunities. Make the most of your Conference attendance with this unique opportunity to have a face to face time with a WHC technical staffer. Sign up as soon as possible as we expect these limited number of meetings to fill quickly. The appointment is also open to your other team members; one person will register for the meeting and indicate how many others from your organization will be in attendance.
Facing the Conservation Challenges of our Time through Partnership, Philanthropy and Investment
Presenter: Amy Batson, Chief Fundraising Officer, Ducks Unlimited
Amy Batson of Ducks Unlimited (DU) leads a discussion about the three working models for positive relationships between corporations and non-profit conservation organizations – partnerships, philanthropy and investments. This session will highlight the material benefits to both partners and DU with a case study. Technical Series
Flying WILD – Environmental Education Using Birds as the Focus
Presenters: National Aquarium Education Staff
Through activities involving language arts, social science and math experiences, coupled with community outreach and service learning applications, Flying WILD offers a whole-school approach to environmental education using birds as the focus. Educators from the National Aquarium offer this unique opportunity for training in the Flying WILD Curriculum, which is appropriate for use with middle school students. You’ll receive a teacher’s manual with sample lessons, and learn how to carry out lessons in the classroom or in your habitat. We’ll also discuss how to help students host a “bird festival” to celebrate International Migratory Bird Day. Pre-registration is required. Technical Series
Freshwater, Fish and Fun! Using Multimedia and Recreational Activities as Tools for Watershed Education
Presenters: Kim Winter, NatureWatch Program Leader, U.S. Forest Service | Keith Williams, Executive Director, NorthBay
Want to engage youth in your community in nature? Interested in finding fun ways to monitor your freshwater ecology? Discover the freshwater education resources available through the U.S. Forest Service and its partners, such as FreshwaterLIVE, the NatureWatch Snorkeling Tool Kit, Fishing Days. Learn how to implement these experiences on your site for students, teachers, non-formal learners or anyone who has an interest about watershed protection, clean water, and aquatic biodiversity. Technical Series
General Session: Reimagining the Corporate Campus
Presenters: Claudia West, Landscape Designer and Author | Naomi Edelson, Senior Director, Wildlife Partnerships, National Wildlife Federation | Moderated by Margaret O’Gorman, President, Wildlife Habitat Council
This General Session delves into the increasing practice of developing corporate workplaces with biodiversity at the forefront. As more companies seek to centralize employees and real estate costs, so has there been a renewed commitment to invest in corporate campuses. Much more than a place to park one’s car, the corporate office landscape must also compete for business and talent – developing habitat and green spaces not only aids in conservation and corporate biodiversity goals, but maintains a more satisfied and productive workforce. With increased urbanization and habitat fragmentation, degradation and loss, corporate campuses in both urban and suburban settings have a much higher potential for biodiversity than is currently realized. We can transform the spaces we work in by changing our landscaping practices. This General Session will be immediately followed by an in-depth workshop that will include principles of landscaping design and successful native planting.
Less is More – Sustainable Stream Restoration Design and Construction
Presenter: Scott McGill, Principal, Ecotone, Inc.
Learn to integrate sustainable strategies and tactics into stream restoration to realize significant cost savings and reduce short and long term carbon output. In this workshop participants will learn how to incorporate sustainable methods and techniques into the stages of a project’s development including site analysis, design, and construction/long-term site integrity. Real world examples will drive home the strategies to employ so you can create a high quality, highly functional restoration project at lower cost than traditional restoration approaches. Technical Series
Monitoring Matters – Gathering and Utilizing Data to Improve Projects
Presenter: WHC Strategy and Planning staff
Accurate and regular monitoring is essential for any habitat or species management project. Once you have the data – you may find yourself asking now what? WHC technical staff will guide you through useful tools to gather the data but more importantly, how to utilize the results to improve your projects, contribute to citizen science, and connect with your communities. Starter Series
More Than Words – Telling Your Story with Visual Media (Including Drones!)
Presenters: Russell Sparkman, CEO, FusionSpark Media Inc | Gene Huntington, Remote Intelligence
Storytelling is essential for stakeholder engagement. And visual storytelling has become an absolutely essential form of communications for print, web and social media. But all too often, organizations find themselves pinched for quality options when it comes to sourcing photographs and video in support of communications needs. This session will address this challenge by providing strategies and tactics to consistently generate and source quality visual media to successfully promote your conservation efforts – including using drones! Learn how these unmanned aerial systems can provide unique visuals utilizing an SLR mapping camera, multi-spectral cam, thermal imaging cam, and more. Technical Series
Prioritizing Preservation on Private Lands with Land Conservation Agreements
Presenter: CEMEX
Land Conservation Agreements are one of the newest categories recognized as a project under Conservation Certification. The North American Land Trust, with extensive experience working with private companies that wish to make charitable donations of conservation easements on their property, will detail the steps involved in identifying a property, preparing baseline documentation, drafting and recording the easement, monitoring and stewardship, and planning long-term management. CEMEX’s Conservation Manager will share his company’s leadership in establishing the El Carmen Nature reserve. With over 140,000 hectares, this cross-border private conservation region between Mexico and the U.S. represents an extensive key biological corridor for wildlife migration and distribution and is home to more than 1,500 plant species, 289 avian species and 78 mammal species. Technical Series
Right-of-Ways Flyways: Creating Habitat on ROWs
Presenters: Michael Neal, Director of Customer Solutions, ACRT | Claudia Rocca, Licensing Manager, PS&G
Discover how PS&G partnered with New Jersey’s endangered and Non-Game Species Program and the NJ Audubon Society to develop an electric transmission line Right-of-Way (ROW) vegetation management strategy to help protect golden-wing warbler habitat. Learn key elements of the strategy that have allowed the golden wing warbler, a species in decline, as well as the blue-winged warbler, to return to the habitat. This success story will cover, in depth, IVM techniques and best practices for controlling incompatible vegetation on electric and gas pipeline ROWs to create sustainable plant communities and provide for increased pollinator habitat. All while ensuring the safe, reliable delivery of electricity and gas. Technical Series
STEM Experience in Your Habitat – There’s No Better Place for Learning
Presenters: Peggy Jaye, Communications Director, Georgia Pacific – Cedar Springs | Kayhan Ostovar, Associate Professor and founding member of the Yellowstone River Research Center at Rocky Mountain College
Supporting students of all ages in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) is a high priority for many organizations, as we understand the importance of STEM careers to our communities, our companies and our collective future. These case studies, from corporations such as ExxonMobil and Georgia Pacific, who have made a commitment to partnering with communities to provide STEM experiences, demonstrate that place-based education provides an integrating context to accomplish STEM programs—challenging students to apply interdisciplinary thinking, work collaboratively for problem solving, and honing essential process skills such as data collection. Technical Series
Strong Alignments, Successful Programs
Presenter: WHC Strategy and Planning staff
Conservation programs are best leveraged when the initiatives have strong ties to the local ecology, aligned with target stakeholder priorities, and adapted to the operational context. WHC staff experts will share proven and tested strategies and tactics for planning a program that is aligned with conservation, people and corporate needs to ensure the best starting point for a credible and viable program. Starter Series
General Session: Stronger Outcomes, Greater Impacts – Aligning Local Projects with Large Scale Efforts
Regional, national and international conservation plans that have been built on a sound scientific foundation and created with meaningful stakeholder input can provide the framework for local conservation efforts. When a project is aligned with an existing conservation plan or goal, it will be contributing into a larger scale effort and, as such, have greater impact. Panelists will explore these conservation plans and show how practitioners can access the plans and align with them in a meaningful way.
The Nature of Business – Linking Habitat to Corporate Sustainability Plans
Presenters: Susan Kelsey, General Motors | Kristen LeForce, DTE Energy | Sita Daavettila, Summit Materials
Presented by leaders in corporate conservation, this session will offer perspectives on how a company may utilize WHC conservation programs to kick start a corporate sustainability program, or add to its overall CSR/sustainability strategy. Learn how companies can develop a specific strategy within their conservation programs to create metrics for their sustainability reporting, how to integrate wildlife habitat and environmental sustainability concepts into capital projects during the planning and design phases, and how corporate wildlife habitat programs not only provide community, ecological and financial benefit, but can increase employee engagement and a company’s sustainability commitment. Corporate Series
Transforming Remediation Sites – Planning, Partnerships and Pollinators
Presenters: Paul Botek, Principal for Ashland site, Geosytnec Consultants | Candace Teichert, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Remediation projects can face multiple challenges including resources, cost and community acceptance. This session will address several of those challenges, and give real-world examples of strategies and tactics set forth. Candace Teichert of the EPA will discuss the development of pollinator habitat at EPA Superfund sites; Geosyntec Consultants’ Paul Botek will detail how Ashland used several habitat enhancements and Conservation Certification recognition as part of their commitment to environmental stewardship and support to the communities in which they operate. Technical Series
Download the prospectus and contact Daniel Litow at dlitow@wildlifehc.org, 240.247.0926 for more information.
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American Diabetes Association
Arcadis North America
Bat Conservation International
Big Wave Strategies
Chesapeake Bay Trust
Custom Coating Innovations
EarthShare
Ecosystem Recovery Institute
Ecotone, Inc
ECT, Inc.
Ernst Conservation Seeds, Inc.
Exelon Corporation
General Motors
Geosyntec Consultants
Great Ecology
Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust
IVM Partners
Land Trust Alliance
Monarch Red Carpet
National Aquarium
National Environmental Education Foundation
NatureServe
North Creek Nurseries
P. Flanigan & Sons
Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever
Project Learning Tree
Ramboll Environ
Remote Intelligence, LLC
Stantec
TetraTech
The Boeing Company
V3 Companies
Wildlife Integration, LLC
Hilton BaltimoreThe Hilton Baltimore offers luxurious accommodations in the exciting Baltimore Inner Harbor district downtown, a prime business, historic and cultural district in Baltimore.
Reservations can be made online or by calling direct at 443-573-8700. Be sure to mention you’re attending the WHC Conservation Conference. Rooms are $224 per night and a one night deposit is required on all room reservations. (Deposit is fully refundable up to 72 hours prior to your reservation). WHC’s room block expires on October 14.
The hotel is attached via enclosed walkway to the Baltimore Convention Center and adjacent to Camden Yards. Just minutes away are the Hippodrome Theatre, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins and M & T Bank Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens.
Join us in Baltimore – a city with a rich, diverse history, culture and amenities that offer visitors a unique and positive experience. All of Baltimore’s major tourism assets, from the Convention Center and hotels, to restaurants, attractions and retail venues, are open for business and available for you to enjoy. The proud Baltimore residents who staff all of those venues are eager to share them with you. For more information visit www.baltimore.org.
Just a few of the many places to see in Baltimore during your visit:
The Hilton Baltimore is less than a 20-minute drive from BWI Airport (Baltimore/Washington International), and easy to reach from Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York from Interstate 95 or via Amtrak. Airport and local transportation options include:
Congratulations to the 2016 WHC Award winners and nominees. These programs and projects, made possible by dedicated members, volunteers and partners, demonstrate excellence in the areas of wildlife habitat enhancement and restoration, and conservation education.
CORPORATE CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP AWARD EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AWARD GOLD PROGRAM AWARD Avian Project Award Awareness and Community Engagement Project Award Bats Project Award Desert Project Award Forest Project Award Formal Learning Project Award Grasslands Project Award Green Infrastructure Project Award Invasive Species Coordinated Approaches Project Award Invasive Species Project Award IVM Project Award Landscaping Project Award Mammals Project Award Other Habitats Project Award Pollinator Project Award Reptiles and Amphibians Project Award Species of Concern Project Award Training Project Award Wetlands and Water Bodies Project Award Award nominees and winners were chosen from Conservation Certification applications submitted from January 1, 2016 – August 1, 2016. (Applications received after August 1, 2016 will be considered for the 2017 WHC Awards. Applications under appeal are not considered.) Corporate Conservation Leadership Award Awareness and Community Engagement Project Award Bats Project Award Desert Project Award Forest Project Award Formal Learning Project Award Grasslands Project Award Green Infrastructure Project Award Invasive Species Coordinated Approaches Project Award Invasive Species Project Award IVM Project Award Landscaping Project Award Mammals Project Award Other Habitats Project Award Pollinator Project Award Reptiles and Amphibians Project Award Species of Concern Project Award Training Project Award Wetlands and Water Bodies Project Award
Winner General Motors Company
Winner General Motors Company
Winner CEMEX, El Carmen
– Winner Freeport-McMoRan Inc., Safford Operations
– General Motors, St. Catharines Powertrain
– Oldcastle Materials, Oldcastle Nature Trail at the Marcus Autism Center
– Buzzi Unicem USA, Inc., Wildlife Habitat and Outdoor Classroom, Pryor, OK
– Winner CEMEX, Atotonilco
– Monsanto, Monsanto Chesterfield
– DTE Energy, Belle River Mills Compressor Station
– Winner DTE Energy, Muskegon Service Center
– Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia Inc.
– Winner CEMEX, El Carmen
– Winner CEMEX, El Carmen
– Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Farley Nuclear Plant
– Monsanto, Monsanto Chesterfield
– Bridgestone Americas, Inc., Bridgestone Neumaticos de Monterrey
– General Motors, Joinville Engine
– Winner General Motors, Langley (Vancouver) Parts Distribution Centre
– Exelon Corporation, Lake Forest Prairie
– Exelon Corporation, Pratts Wayne Woods
– Winner Freeport-McMoRan Inc., Tyrone
– Monsanto, Monsanto Company Chesterfield
– ITC Holdings, Belleville Warehouse
– Winner ITC Holdings, Wayland Warehouse
– Winner LafargeHolcim, Lafarge Texada Quarry
– Oldcastle Materials, Oldcastle Nature Trail at the Marcus Autism Center
– Winner Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Farley Nuclear Plant
– Winner Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation, El Cerrito Integrated Vegetation Management Program
– Pepco Holdings, Inc., Transmission Right-of-Way
– Winner California Resources Corporation, THUMS Islands
– General Motors, Boryeong Transmission
– ITC Holdings, Belleville Warehouse
– Winner CEMEX, El Carmen
– Koch Industries, Inc., Beaverhead Ranch
– Winner Bridgestone Americas, Inc., Bridgestone Neumaticos de Monterrey
– General Motors, Rochester Operations
– Monsanto, Hollandale Site
– Winner Oldcastle Materials, Oldcastle Nature Trail at the Marcus Autism Center
– Abbott, Abbott Park
– Winner Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Farley Nuclear Plant
– Winner CEMEX, El Carmen
– Vulcan Materials Company, Cantera CALICA
– Winner Buzzi Unicem USA, Inc., Wildlife Habitat and Outdoor Classroom, Pryor, OK
– General Motors, Edmonton Parts Distribution Centre
– General Motors, Langley (Vancouver) Parts Distribution Centre
– Winner CSX Transportation, CSX Nocatee Site
– Waste Management, Oak Ridge Recycling and Disposal Facility
– Waste Management, SCA Independent Landfill
Our top award honors one company’s overall achievement in conservation efforts, and signifies an exemplary level of corporate commitment to biodiversity and conservation education, and meaningful alignments with global conservation objectives.
Employee Engagement Award
Presented to one organization, this award recognizes a company’s involvement in conservation through the sheer force of its employee teams who participate in its habitat and conservation education activities.
Gold Program Award
This award recognized the overall depth of one exceptional program in the Gold Certified tier.
Avian Project Award
Awarded to one of the highest-scoring projects in this theme, the project demonstrates adequate monitoring of targeted species and at least 1 associated factor (e.g. food sources), and the project must be adaptively managed.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project meets a need identified by an external group, company or community group based on study or other information, and must clearly relate to a habitat or species project on-site (or support some other conservation project).
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project demonstrates adequate monitoring of targeted species and at least 1 associated factor (e.g. food sources), and includes evaluation of monitoring results to develop next steps for the project.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project must have appropriate adaptive management practices, annual monitoring, and includes evaluation of monitoring results to develop next steps for the project.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project must be adaptively managed using appropriate techniques, and monitored adequately at least once per year with results evaluated to create next steps.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project must be mapable to academic standards, meet a need identified by the community, and clearly relate to a habitat or species project on site (or support some other conservation project).
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project demonstrates adequate monitoring of vegetation at least two times a year or adequate monitoring of vegetation at least annually, demonstrates adequate monitoring of at least 1 additional aspect (e.g. wildlife use), and uses the evaluation to create next steps for the project.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project demonstrates that there are multiple features of the project that directly impact biodiversity, and the information about the biodiversity impacts are shared.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project must have a comprehensive plan to identify, control and prevent invasive species.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project demonstrates adequate annual monitoring, and the control and prevention methods should incorporate appropriate practices.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project has a procedure in place documenting that vegetation management was completed, and the information from the evaluation is used to determine next steps in the project.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project has an adequate monitoring protocol, and the results of the evaluation are used to create next steps for the project.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project demonstrates adequate monitoring of the targeted species, and the monitoring results are used to create next steps for the project.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project is adaptively managed using appropriate techniques and monitored adequately with results evaluated to create the next steps for the project.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project demonstrates adequate monitoring of targeted species at least once per year and at least 1 associated factor (e.g. food sources), and should have a policy integrated into overall site operations to minimize, eliminate or apply responsible use practices of pesticides and herbicides with supporting documentation.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project demonstrates adequate monitoring of the targeted species and at least 1 associated factor (such as food sources), and uses the results of monitoring data to create next steps in the project.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project must include a commitment to long-term or permanent protection, and the data collected about the target species during monitoring is shared with external organizations.
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project must meet a need identified by an external group, company or community group based on study or other information, and the project must clearly relate to a habitat or species project on-site ( or support some other conservation project).
Awarded to one of the highest scoring projects in this theme, the project demonstrates adequate monitoring and use of monitoring data to create next steps in the project.
| PRICING DEADLINES | August 19 Biggest Savings! |
August 20 – October 6 | October 7 – November 2 Includes on site registration |
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| Member | $600 | $725 | $850 |
| Non-Member | $675 | $799 | $925 |
| Non-Profit, Government | $375 | $425 | $475 |
Registration Policies
Registration includes five (5) meals, including the closing dinner, and admission to all sessions. Registration is not final until payment has been received. Substitutions will be allowed. Refund Policy: 100% before August 1, 2016; 50% between August 1 and September 1, 2016; no refunds after September 1, 2016. All requests for substitutions and refunds must be made in writing to conservationconference@wildlifehc.org.
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