Afternoon Trainings: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Climate Change and Wildlife – What You Need to Know as a Human Dimensions Professional

Instructor: Dr. Doug Inkley, Senior Scientist, National

Wildlife Federation

Description:We will provide HD professionals with 1) the essential information they need to know about climate change and 2) the current state of HD research in climate change and wildlife.  The workshop will conclude with a session on the role of human dimensions and wildlife in addressing climate change.  Resource materials provided will include a CD lecture/curriculum on climate change and wildlife, and the Wildlife Manger’s Guide to Climate Change.

Capacity: 40

Participatory approaches to natural resource management: from consultation to collaboration

Instructor: Dr. Tony Cheng, Professor, Dept. of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University

Description: The objective of this course is to provide participants with a diagnostic framework to assess viable opportunities for stakeholder participation in resource management, identify participation methods appropriate to each situation, and develop the capacities necessary to carry out the methods.  Participants will leave the course with a roadmap to develop their own participation action plans.

Capacity: 40

Morning Trainings: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Integrating HD into Management Decision Making: Putting HD Insight to Work

(Funded by Nebraska fish and Wildlife Agency)

Instructor: Dr. Dan Decker, Professor and Co-leader , Human Dimensions Research Unit, Department of Natural resources, Cornell University

Co-Instructor: Dr. Bill Siemer, HD Research Specialist, Human Dimensions Research Unit, Department of Natural resources, Cornell University

Description: The purpose of this course is to illustrate successful integration of HD insight into management. Through the use of examples, benefits and limitations of HD integration will be presented and traits of management decision making that encourage integration will be discussed. Participants will leave the course with an understanding of essential concepts for integrative management thinking and awareness of a tool that will enhance integration in practice.

Dealing with People: The Basics of Environmental Conflict

Instructors: Dr. Jessica Thompson, Assistant Professor, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University

Co-Instructor: Dr. Brett Bruyere, Associate Professor, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University

Description: The goal of this workshop is to help participants become better managers of environmental disputes in organizational and community-based contexts.  Specifically, we will explore how 1) communication practices are related to conflict; 2) how to address conflicting values, meanings and discourse as we manage natural resources and wildlife with diverse constituencies; how to deal with other agencies, stakeholders and multi-party conflict situations; 4) how to make sense of intractable conflicts about management practices within organizations and communities.

Prior to the workshop, we ask that all attendees e-mail us: 1) a previous conflict experience elated to fish and wildlife management; 2) a conflict they anticipate they might face in the future.  We will use the participant’s experiences as mini-case studies to apply the four objectives of the workshop outlined above. Capacity: 40p outlined above.

Capacity: 40

Afternoon Trainings: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Local cultures, perspectives and understandings; incorporating stakeholder views into the process of developing conflict-mitigation strategies

Instructor: Dr. Catherine Hill, Dept of Anthropology & Geography, School of Social Sciences & Law, Oxford Brookes University

Co-Instructor: Dr. Amanda Webber, Oxford Brookes University

Description: The objective of this course is to demonstrate the value of incorporating local views and understandings into the development of conflict-mitigation strategies.�I will use case studies as illustrative tools, to provide participants with an analytical framework for examining stakeholder understandings and expectations. Capacity: 40

Morning Trainings: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Understanding the fundamentals of commercial hunting and wildlife trade

Instructor: Elizabeth L. Bennett, Ph.D., Director, Hunting and Wildlife Trade Program, Wildlife Conservation Society

Description: Across the globe, commercial hunting for thewildlife trade is one of the greatest threats currently facingwildlife populations and the local communities which depend on them. The objectives of this course are to: (i) discuss the complexities of managing commercial hunting and wildlife trade; and (ii) outline a process to identify appropriate players to be involved in management, and develop frameworks for managing such hunting to ensure that local livelihoods are supported, and that the natural resource base is not depleted. Participants will leave the course with a framework for identifying appropriate players and developing management systems which, if implemented, would ensure that any commercial wildlife trade is sustainable.

Capacity: 40

*Canceled* Evaluating Investments in HD Programs and Projects within your Management Portfolio *Canceled*

Instructor: Dr. Tommy L. Brown, Senior Research Associate and Leader Human Dimensions Research Unit, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University

Co-Instructor: Dr. Dan Decker, Professor and Co-leader, Human Dimensions Research Unit, Department of Natural resources, Cornell University

Description: The purpose of this course is to help agency leaders assess the impact of their investments in HD research.  Drawing upon the experience and perspectives of HD researchers and agency administrators, discussion will focus on: importance of clarifying need for HD information; setting priorities; engagement of managers and researchers; quality of research; rigor in use of HD in decision making.  Participants will leave the course with greater insight about the criteria useful for evaluating the relevance, quality and application of HD research in their agency.

Capacity: 20

Afternoon Trainings: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Practical Experience with HD Data Collection Techniques

Instructors:

Larry Gigliotti (Facilitator), Past President, Organization of Wildlife Planners, and Planning Coordinator/Human Dimensions Specialist, South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks

Jason Goeckler, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks

Alicia Hardin, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

Peter Fritzell , Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Joseph Paul Wiegand, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks

Course Description: The primary objective of this course is to provide participants with an overview of HD data collection methods and considerations in selecting the best approach for a given project. A panel of HD specialists from State Fish and Wildlife Agencies across the Western United States will illustrate various data collection techniques, including how to use existing data to explore new research questions. The panel will be facilitated by veteran HD Specialist Dr. Gigliotti. Panelists will also include members of the first graduating class of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies’ (WAFWA) HD certification program. Each panel member will share by way of case study presentation his or her experience with a different technique, ensuring a diverse array of options is represented. In addition, the panel will introduce unique examples of new directions and emerging techniques in HD research.

Capacity: 40

Understanding and managing human-wildlife conflicts including participatory mapping of risk and vulnerability

Instructors:

Adrian Treves, Assistant Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Co-Instructor: Lisa Naughton, Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Description: The objective of this course is to provide participants with a framework for understanding situations in which wildlife pose a threat to crops, livestock, timber or human safety in broad, cross-cultural and international perspective. We will present a step-by-step approach to building co-management structures, using participatory methods. In particular, we will focus on participatory mapping to integrate local knowledge into technical planning steps.

Capacity: 40

Morning Trainings: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
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*Canceled* Outcomes-based Planning for Wildlife-based Ecotourism Programs *Canceled*

Instructors:

Jim Wurz, Center for Protected Area Management and Training, Colorado State University

Co-Instructor:Ryan Finchum, Center for Protected Area Management and Training, Colorado State University

Description: This session will provide participants with exposure to, and practice in, planning strategies based on the limits of acceptable change.  Such strategies allow protected area managers, tourism operators, and local communities to develop a collaborative vision and define measurable objectives related to wildlife-based ecotourism.  The session will include an overview of the planning process, break-out group activities, and case studies from the US and international contexts

Capacity: 40

Conservation and Conflict:

An Introductory Training in the Skills, Theory and Process Conservation Professionals Need to Better Analyze and Address Conflict

Instructors:

Francine M Madden, Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration

Brian McQuinn, United Nations Development Programme

Description: The Conservation and Conflict Experiential Training is a must for any conservation professional who deals with conflict between people and wildlife or between people about wildlife. As we know, human-wildlife conflict is often less a conflict between humans and wildlife, and more a conflict between humans about wildlife. This means that in order to be more successful, conservation professionals need to become more proficient at analyzing and addressing conflict on every level. Moreover, many wildlife issues at the center of conversation conflicts often serve as symbols for other conflicts that do not involve conservation directly, like struggles for group recognition, identity, and status. The objective of this introductory training seminar is to improve the ability of conservation practitioners to understand conflict dynamics and establish more effective ways to address them. Participants will accomplish this by drawing on tools, processes, and theory developed in the field of conflict resolution that have been demonstrated to be applicable to conservation realities. As a result, conservation practitioners will possess a broader set of skills to ensure that conservation solutions are more successful and sustainable. Course Objectives: At the conclusion of this introductory training, participants should be able to: -Explain some of the principles and theory behind effective conflict resolution processes and the role of neutral facilitation in conflict prevention and mitigation efforts -Better understand conflict dynamics -Understand the role of identity in conflict and how our values and beliefs impact our experience of conflict -Strategize about different types of processes for addressing conflict in conservation -Design and initiate processes to address conflict using conciliation, mediation, group dialogue processes -Better understand our reactions to conflict and develop strategies for more effective responses to conflict

Capacity: 40