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From: Tom Will <[email protected]> Date: July 5, 2005 2:21:13 PM CDT To: [email protected] Subject: Deadline for Golden-winged Warbler Workshop Approaches! Reply-To: [email protected] July 9 is the deadline for early registration and for making room reservations for the Golden-winged Warbler Conservation Workshop planned for August 10-12 in Siren, Wisconsin. ... Visit the workshop website at http://www.grantsburg.k12.wi.us/gwwa/. The Golden-winged Warbler Conservation Workshop is designed for biologists, researchers, conservation planners, managers, and for anybody interested in improving the status of Golden-wings, whether you work for a state or federal agency, conservation NGO, academic or research institution, local planning or management unit, or private industry. Concerned citizens and birders and are also encouraged to attend. This will be the first workshop focused solely on Golden-winged Warblers throughout the entire range of the species, including the wintering grounds in Central America and northwestern South America. We will have representatives from the neotropics with us to help us plan a comprehensive conservation strategy for the species. The workshop will feature a field trip to important GWWA habitats in Minnesota and Wisconsin and opportuities for on-the-spot discussions of pratical management actions that would benefit GWWAs in these habitats. This is a workshop you will not want to miss! For those unfamiliar with the conservation planning/implementation continuum, the workshop will provide a complete overview of the entire process as well as an opportunity to explore some of the details of continental assessment, identification of reasons for decline, genetics, population and habitat modeling, definition of research priorities, management scenarios, conservation action, and evaluation and monitoring. Most importantly, the workshop will provide the background and the opportunity for participants to help draft an action plan for Golden-wings within the context of all-bird conservation. The processes and skills employed in the workshop should serve as a model for similar actions for other species. Plan now to attend! (See attached file: Golden-winged Warbler Workshop Info.pdf)(See attached file: GWWA Workshop Agenda 7-4.doc) Tom Will U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service Partners in Flight Midwest Regional Coordinator Golden-winged Warbler Conservation Working Group
