Wyoming Golden Eagle Working Group

The Wyoming Golden Eagle Working Group (WY-GOEA-WG) is a collaboration of wildlife scientists and managers interested in the biology and conservation of Golden Eagles in Wyoming, USA

Goals

1. Facilitate information sharing and direct communication among members.

2. Identify information gaps and data needs for Golden Eagles in Wyoming.

3. Provide a platform for external public and professional communication about issues relevant to Golden Eagles in Wyoming.

4. Provide peer review of conservation strategies, management plans, scientific research, or similar documents related to Golden Eagles in Wyoming.

5. Provide a channel for members to offer professional feedback and opinion, without attribution, on relevant EIS, assessments, and plans.

6. Facilitate regular communication with neighboring working groups and states.

Code of Conduct

To ensure our collaboration of wildlife scientists and managers moves forward productively, working group members are expected to adhere to a code of conduct.

Importance of Wyoming

• Wyoming is home to the largest breeding population of Golden Eagles in the lower-48 states.

• Wyoming may host large numbers of over-wintering migrants and wandering sub-adults from both northern and southern latitudes.

• Wyoming has large expanses of contiguous habitat that are also under continuing threats from energy development, human population expansion, declining prey, and other factors.

• There are many interested professionals with a vast amount of combined experience with GOEA ecology and management in Wyoming.