Stewardship Network 2012 Conference
2012 Theme: Natural Areas and Ecosystem Services
Kellogg Center, East Lansing, MI
Friday, January 20th &
Saturday, January 21st!
www.StewardshipNetworkConference.org
When: Friday & Saturday, January 20 & 21, 2012
Where: Kellogg Conference Center, East Lansing, Michigan
As we round the corner coming into December, we're thrilled to reveal our line-up of presenters for the 2012 Conference! Though we're still nailing down some of the final details, we invite you to peruse the agenda and start planning which amazing presentations you'll attend. Click here to see the PDF agenda!
This year's theme is Natural Areas and Ecosystem Services. Humans derive a host of invaluable services from the biodiversity that surrounds us. The oxygen we breathe is provided by plants, the water we drink is filtered by wetlands, and one third of food we eat is a result of animal pollination. Many of our lives are also enhanced by the cultural and spiritual values we obtain from being in and around natural ecosystems.
However, many of the vital services are increasingly threatened by environmental degradation. That's why we are especially pleased to focus on this important topic. We'll also have a great track of presentations focusing on the role of fire in restoration, thanks to a partnership with the Lake States Fire Science Consortium.
Already know you're going to go?
Register now by clicking here!
Looking for some more information?
Please explore our conference website at www.StewardshipNetworkConference.org. While much of the information is already in place, the site is something of a work-in-progress. Please check back frequently as we continue to post information on sessions and presenters.
Don't miss out!
-Early-bird registration rates are good through December 23rd.
-Block room rates to stay onsite at the Kellogg Center are good through the first week of January.
Wisconsin Wetlands Association 17th Annual Conference, Urban Wetlands
February 22-23, 2012 in Lake Geneva, WI.
In February, 2012, Wisconsin Wetlands Association will convene members of the regional wetland community for our 17th Annual Wetland Conference to discuss the latest in wetland science, management, restoration, and protection issues around the conference theme, Urban Wetlands. This 2-day conference will include topical oral sessions; a poster session; working groups; a banquet with speaker; and wetland field trips to Lake Geneva-area wetlands.
Following more than a decade-long tradition, we anticipate that this year’s conference will contribute to a growing regional collaboration for protecting and conserving Wisconsin’s wetlands. More information can be found on the conference website: http://wisconsinwetlands.org/2012conference.htm
ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Early Bird Rates apply to registrations through January 22, 2012
Visit http://wisconsinwetlands.org/2012registrationonline.htm
Advanced registration ends on February 22, 2012.
The Prairie Enthusiasts, Inc.
“TPE at 25: The Journey to Prairie Preservation”
Abstract deadline extended to Jan 6, 2012
Annual Prairie Conference and All-Chapter Banquet
Saturday, February 25, 2012
UW-Stout Campus, Micheels and Jarvis Halls, Menomonie, WI
Information and Registration (PDF)
NATIONAL INVASIVE SPECIES WEEK 2012 -- February 26 - March 3, 2012
- A week of activities, briefings, workshops and events focused on strategizing solutions to address invasive species prevention, detection, monitoring, control, and management issues at local, state, tribal, regional, national and international scales.
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
National Invasive Species Council (see www.invasivespecies.gov) holds public meeting
- Grassroots action to prevent and control invasive species – Panel discussions and Webinar
- Success stories and challenges
- Cooperative Weed and Invasive Species Management Areas and Tribal efforts
- Capitol Hill Briefings on aquatic invasive species, including quagga and zebra mussels and Asian carp
- Workshop on invasive species prevention and management in urban areas
- Invasive Species Award Ceremony and Reception
- Kids Invasive Species Awareness Day at the US Botanic Garden
- Weed Prevention - Best Practices Proven to Work/ How to turn away unwelcome guests
Prevention through Outreach and Awareness – Experts panel on lessons learned
- Invasive Species Solutions – poster session
- Update by federal agencies on important invasive species issues and initiatives
- State and Local events highlighting invasive species efforts throughout the country!
Check www.nisaw.org for more details and further developments!
Weeds Across Borders 2012 Conference
Cancun, Mexico from April 24-27, 2012.
Preliminary conference information can be found by visiting the WAB 2012 website at: http://www.weedcenter.org/wab/2012/index.html.
Request for Papers
The Weeds Across Borders 2012 Coordinating Committee is now accepting abstracts for oral and poster presentations. See the attached files (in English and Spanish) or visit the www.weedcenter.org/wab/2012 to view the full request for papers. Abstracts must be submitted no later than February 20, 2012.
WAB is an international conference covering the interests of professionals and organizations involved in weed management and regulation. The purpose of the conference is to exchange information on and help promote awareness of the ecological, economic and social impacts of invasive species throughout North America. The topic of weeds is treated from a regional focus placing emphasis on common problems and cooperation among countries and institutions taking into account that cooperation across jurisdictional borders is essential for the prevention and control of non-native plants.
Session Topics:
1. Policy making, regulation, and border control
2. Plant diversity (importance and uses)
3. Genetically modified organisms, weediness, and resistance
4. Economic and health impacts
5. Environmental and biodiversity impacts
6. Global change and climate change modeling
7. Early detection and rapid response
8. Invasion ecology
9. Management and control
10. Education and awareness
Please send any questions you may have to: weedsacrossborders2012@gmail.com.
Conference on Citizen Science
Mark your calendars! August 2012, in Portland Oregon, join researchers, educators, and project leaders for the first large-scale, open conference on citizen science. Details will be posted, as available, on the Conferences page. Have a conference of your own that you'd like to share on citizenscience.org? Email us!
Terrestrial Invasive Plant Species (TIPS) Conference
Request for Papers
The TIPS Organizing Committee is now accepting abstracts for oral and poster presentations. Visit www.tipsconf.ca to view the full request for papers.
Abstracts must be submitted no later than February 10, 2012.
Join us in Sault Ste. Marie,ON, Canada, for the First International
Terrestrial Invasive Plant Species (TIPS) Conference
Where: Delta Sault Ste. Marie Waterfront Hotel, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario,
Canada.
When: August 20-22, 2012
Details: www.tipsconf.ca
EcoSummit 2012 - Ecological Sustainability
Restoring the Planet’s Ecosystem Services
September 30 - October 5, 2012
Columbus, OH
EcoSummit 2012 will bring together the world's most respected minds in ecological science to discuss restoring the planet's ecosystems. Come hear Nobel Prize laureate
Elinor Ostrom, Pulitzer Prize winners
E.O. Wilson and
Jared Diamond, Kyoto Prize winner
Simon Levin, Stockholm Water Prize laureates
Sven Jørgensen and
William Mitsch, and many others in the first conference ever linking the
Ecological Society of America (ESA),
The International Association for Ecology (INTECOL) and the
Society for Ecological Restoration International (SER).
70 symposia and 11 workshops with almost 600 participants from over
55 countrieshave been accepted for the EcoSummit 2012 Program. The symposia and workshops cover a wide variety of ecological topics, including ecological restoration, ecosystem services, climate change issues, and lake, wetland, and river management and will be presented over the entire week of the conference in parallel sessions.
Call for Abstracts
Please remember to submit your abstracts for poster and oral (general session and invited symposium) presentations by 20 January 2012. Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system on the EcoSummit 2012 website. |
Abstracts are invited on the following topics:
- Sustainability and Resilience
- Ecosystem Creation and Restoration/Ecological Engineering
- Global Change
- Ecosystem Services
- Ecological Indicators
- Biodiversity and Biological Conservation
- Climate Change
- Ecological Complexity
- Ecotoxicology
- Ecological Economics
- Ecological Modelling
- Biological Invasions
- Ecosystem Health
- Environmental Policy
- Ecological Knowledge
- Coastal Problems Caused by Upland Pollution Sources
- Watershed/River Catchment Management
- Ecohydrology
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Details: http://www.ecosummit2012.org/
Botany Workshop, Isle Royale National Park! June 11-16, 2012
Eperience four days in Lake Superior's Isle Royale National Park and learn to identify the diverse plants that live on this incredible island!
BOTANY WORKSHOP INFORMATION:
This special botany workshop, sponsored by the Isle Royale & Keweenaw Parks Association (IRKPA), and taught by botanist Janet Marr, is open to anyone with beginning/intermediate knowledge of plant identification who is interested in learning to identify the early summer native flora of this species-rich Lake Superior island.
Workshop participants will spend four days on Isle Royale learning native plant species, using such tools as a dichotomous key and hand lens to identify plants. Other topics will include discussion of island plant communities, rare species, ecology, and invasive species.
Most workshop activities will take place outdoors. Optional evening sessions will also be offered to review plants learned earlier. Field trips will include Tobin Harbor, Scoville Point, and Raspberry Island, places that are all located in the vicinity of Rock Harbor.
Workshop attendees will meet in Houghton, Michigan, on Monday (11 June) afternoon and travel from Houghton to Rock Harbor (on Isle Royale) on the Ranger III boat on Tuesday (12 June). Participants will return to Houghton on the Ranger III on Saturday (16 June).
REQUIREMENTS:
Workshop participants should be able to walk up to 7 miles in one day with a daypack on rocky, sometimes steep, trails and bedrock, sometimes slippery, shoreline.
INSTRUCTOR:
Botanist Janet Marr, the workshop instructor, has had many years of experience studying plants across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Isle Royale. Janet taught the 2007 - 2011 Isle Royale botany workshops as well as many botany, aquatic, and wetland plant workshops in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. She is co-author of the Isle Royale Natural History Association's Island Life, an Isle Royale Nature Guide.
ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS. Past botany workshops have filled up very quickly so sign up soon! Contact Kristine Bradof at 906-482-7860 or kbradof@irkpa.org for more information about workshop registration or to register. Contact Janet Marr at 906-337-5529 or jkmarr@mtu.edu for details about the workshop itself.
BOTANY WORKSHOP FEE:
$675 per person if registered by March 5, 2012 ($25 discount for IRKPA members;
see http://irkpa.org/ for information on becoming a IRKPA member).
$699 per person if registered after March 5, 2012 ($25 discount for IRKPA members;
see http://irkpa.org/ for information on becoming a IRKPA member).
A $200 deposit is required to reserve your place in the workshop and may be sent to the Isle Royale & Keweenaw Parks Association, Attn: Kristine Bradof, 800 Lakeshore Dr., Houghton, MI 49913. The balance is due by April 17, 2012.
A cancellation fee of $75 will be charged for cancellations between May 1 and May 31, 2012. There will be no refund for cancellations made on or after June 1, 2011.
The fee for the botany workshop covers instruction, camping, meals on the island, notebook, Slavick/Janke’s Flora of Isle Royale, and transportation to and from Houghton, MI on the Ranger III. Participants may travel from Grand Portage, Minnesota, on the Voyager at their own expense. See http://www.isleroyaleboats.com/ for Voyager info.
LODGING/CAMPING:
Participants may camp for free at a Rock Harbor group site for the four nights on the island. You may also stay in the Rock Harbor Lodge or Housekeeping units at your own expense (consider sharing a room with another participant or friend to reduce your lodging cost). For information about lodging (at Rock Harbor Lodge or Housekeeping
units), boat rentals, etc., please see: http://www.isleroyaleresort.com/
or call 866-644-2003 (winter season) or 906-337-4993 (summer season).
If you wish to share a lodge or housekeeping room, contact Kristine at 906-482-7860 or kbradof@irkpa.org .
For information about Isle Royale National Park, see their home page at http://www.nps.gov/isro/ or call 906-482-0984.
If you know of someone who may be interested in hearing about this Isle Royale botany workshop, that would be great if you would be able to pass this announcement on to them. A color flier for posting is attached to this email. Thank you!!
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP:
A four-day long photography workshop taught by professional photographer and former IRKPA Board President Bob Guiliani immediately follows the botany workshop. Contact Kristine Bradof at 906-482-7860 or kbradof@irkpa.org for more information on the photography workshop
A role for native weeds and aggressive plants for replacing (or competing with) invasives in badly degraded areas
An important message from the USDA
An important message from Invasive Plants Association of Wisconsin
USDA Volunteer Forest Pest Survey
America’s trees are under attack. Help us track down the killer beetles.
The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) beetle has destroyed millions of ash trees throughout the United States. The USDA and (Organization) are partnering to ask members of (Organization) to participate in the Volunteer EAB Forest Pest Survey. We need your help to determine if this damaging forest pest is in your community.
The EAB most likely arrived in the United States inside solid wood packing material from Asia. Since its discovery, EAB infestations have been reported in 13 states and there could be other undetected infestations in the country as well.
Be an ace beetle detective. Start searching today.
You can help us stop the spread of the beetle — and the devastation to our forests, parks and neighborhoods — by searching your community for signs of the EAB. Just follow these simple steps:
- Review the attached PDF fact sheet to become familiar with the EAB as well as signs of damage. Take the fact sheet for reference when you search.
- Locate host trees in your search area. The EAB lives in ash trees. Carefully examine each tree for signs of infestation. Take notes on the following:
- Report both positive and negative sightings online at BeetleDetectives.com. Negative sightings help confirm that the beetle was not found in your area. Make sure you indicate your organization’s name on the online reporting form.
Help your organization become top-ranked beetle detectives.
At BeetleDetectives.com, we will rank participating organizations based on the reports their members submit. If you know other people who would like to help protect our trees, forward this email to them and ask them to report their findings as an individual.
Thanks in advance for helping protect America’s trees!
Rolf Utegaard
Invasive Plants Association of Wisconsin (IPAW)
JoAnn M. Cruse
State Plant Health Director - WI
USDA/Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Robert Dahl
State Plant Regulatory Official - WI
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
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