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Objectives. Overview of How We Got Here Summary of Conserving the Future Community Partnership Implementation Team How to Get Involved. Staff and Friends of Plum Island in Green Bay NWR, in Lake Michigan, WI. Overview. How We Got Here. Core Teams of Service employees

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Objectives

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  1. Objectives • Overview of How We Got Here • Summary of Conserving the Future • Community Partnership Implementation Team • How to Get Involved Staff and Friends of Plum Island in Green Bay NWR, in Lake Michigan, WI

  2. Overview

  3. How We Got Here • Core Teams of Service employees • All programs, Refuge System disciplines • Conserving the Future Conference • 1,100 attendees, Hundreds more virtually

  4. Conserving the Future Conserving the Futureacknowledges that strategic, collaborative, science-based landscape conservation – along with effective public outreach, education, and environmental awareness – is the only path forward to conserve America’s wildlife and wild places. “Friends groups are a refuge’s best ambassador in the community—sharing knowledge with their neighbors…”

  5. Chapter 1Conserving the Future:Wildlife and Wildlands • Assess land protection projects • Landscape scale planning • Nationally coordinated inventory and monitoring program • State-of-the-art data management

  6. Chapter 2Connected Conservation Constituency • Urban Refuge Initiative • Strategic communications plan • Develop and nurture friends groups or community partnerships • Opportunities for hunting, Fishing and Outdoor Recreation Volunteers at the Pelican Island Preservation Society's annual Wildlife Festival

  7. Chapter 3Leading Conservation into the Future • Evaluation team for organizational realignments or programmatic efficiencies • Service’s workforce match the diversity in the civilian labor force, within a decade

  8. Implementation Teams www.AmericasWildlife.org/vision Strategic Growth Urban Wildlife Refuge Initiative Leadership Development Planning Scientific Excellence Communications Community Partnerships Hunting, Fishing, and Outdoor Recreation Interpretation and Environmental Education

  9. Community Partnerships • Recommendation 11: Develop and nurture active and vibrant Friends groups or community partnerships for every staffed refuge or refuge complex. • Recommendation 12: Develop a national strategy for recruiting, coordinating and supporting a more self-sustaining volunteer corps, while creating new opportunities for community involvement in implementing refuge priorities.

  10. 5 Sub-teams • Strategic Plan for strengthening volunteer programs, Friends organizations, and community partnerships • Handbook to guide volunteer, Friends and Community Partnership efforts • Web-Tools • Staff training • Friends Partnership Mentoring

  11. Communications

  12. How you can help • Go online – www.AmericasWildlife.org • Join the Community Partnerships Social Network • Provide comments and feedback- especially on products • Bring the information back to your Board

  13. Ways to Provide Feedback • On www.AmericasWildlife.org for commentsand feedback through the website’s social network • Two other ways for public comments - an e-mail account and a mailing address: • conservingthefuture@fws.gov • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service NWRS-DVSC, Suite 634 4401 North Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22203 Attn: Vision Implementation Coordinator Website E-mail Mail

  14. Join the Social Network 1) Go to www.AmericasWildlife.org 2) Sign up for the social network using your e-mail or through your Facebook

  15. Join the Groups • Within the Social Network 3) Click on Social Network, then Groups to the Community Partnerships Implementation Team

  16. AmericasWildlife.org Groups 4) Click on the team name 5) Click Join Group to become a member

  17. Engagement 6) Once a member of the group, you can start discussion topics and post your comments

  18. Questions? • Contact: • Anna Harris, Vision Coordinator anna_harris@fws.gov or • conservingthefuture@fws.gov

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