You're invited to Workshop 2: Nov 15-16 in Vernal, UT

Post date: Oct 02, 2017 8:8:31 PM

The Southern Rockies and Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Conservation Science Partners, and the Northern Arizona University Landscape Conservation Initiative are pleased to announce a second workshop as part of the Green River Basin Landscape Conservation Design (GRB LCD), an effort to support coordination and actions across boundaries and jurisdictions to meet mutual goals for conservation targets in the sage-steppe and aquatic-riparian ecosystems of the Green River Basin.

Details

Dates: Wednesday, November 15^th 8:30AM – Thursday, November 16^th, 4:00PM

Location: Vernal, Utah, at the Unitah Conference Center, 313 E 200 S, Vernal UT 84078

RSVP: Please RSVP here to let us know that you’ll attend. Registration has no cost. Please RSVP by October 30^th.

Lodging: Rooms are being held for at federal rate of $91 for the nights of November 14^th, 15^th, and 16^th at the Best Western Antlers. Call (435) 789-1202 and request the Green River Basin LCD room block by October 14^th in order to make reservations.

Background

Now in its final year, the spatial data products that will be shared in this workshop were informed by two years of input from managers and other stakeholders, including a needs assessment, a workshop that took place in April of 2016 in Rock Springs, WY, and a series of technical webinars and work group calls. In this workshop, we will present vulnerability assessments for important ecosystems of the Green River Basin, discuss the analysis done to create these decision support tools, demonstrate how they can be used to answer key management questions, and, through group discussions, identify conservation opportunity areas based on vulnerability maps and existing priorities.

The Green River Basin LCD analysis area extends across about 48,000 square miles and spans portions of Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming.