CASCADIA PRAIRIE-OAK PARTNERSHIP
Part of planning for the Ecoregional Science Conference involved meeting with representatives of partnering entities from throughout the Willamette Valley - Puget Trough - Georgia Basin ecoregion. These partners included The Garry Oak Ecosystem Recovery Team of British Columbia, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon and Washington natural resource agencies, the U.S. Army's Ft. Lewis, The Nature Conservancy, the University of Washington, and the American Bird Conservancy.
While there are local/regional prairie-oak working groups from each portion of the ecoregion, there is no umbrella entity that represents the whole. Therefore, the CASCADIA PRAIRIE-OAK PARTNERSHIP was initiated.
The Partnership (CPOP) is currently just a name, but it can be so much more. CPOP is not intended to replace any regional working group, but rather, is intended to operate at a larger scale and link each regional group together.
CPOP's first business meeting will be held in conjunction with the Ecoregional Conference in March 2010. This will give all parties the opportunity to present concepts and ideas on what role the Partnership can or will play in Oak/Prairie management in the WPG.
For more information, contact Hannah Anderson at The Nature Conservancy. 360-701-8803.
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2nd Call for Papers and Registration
Cascadia Prairie-Oak Partnership and
Northwest Scientific Association
Joint Science Conference.
24-27 March 2010
Centralia College Campus,
Centralia, WA
Abstracts Due
16 February 2010.
Download registration form, abstract submission guidelines, and other conference details here.
Meeting theme:
"From Mt. St. Helens to
Oak-Prairie Lowlands:
Disturbance, Biological Legacies,
and Conservation"
Planned CPOP sessions include:
Prairie and Oak Wildlife
Rare Species Translocation
Controlling Invasives
Prescribed Fire
Native Plant Materials Propagation
Conservation Incentives
Special Opportunity for
Prairie-Oak Submissions:
CPOP will be coordinating with NWSA to produce a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal, NW Science. The publication will reflect the state-of-knowledge for Willamette Valley-Puget Trough-Georgia Basin prairie and oak woodland ecology, management, and conservation. Indicate your interest in submitting your paper for publication with your abstract submission.
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TNC South Sound Program Quarterly Highlights Available
Read about the latest work that The Nature Conservancy's South Sound Program and its Partners are doing.
Oct - Dec 2009 Highlights include climate change and direct seeding experiments, prairie conservation, landowner handbook, and more.
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Stay in tune with the prairie-oak community, learn about upcoming events, share ideas and research, and connect with colleagues throughout the ecoregion by becoming a member of the
Prairie-Oak Listserve.
To join the listserve, email your interest to Hannah Anderson at handerson@tnc.org.
Your name will be added to the growing membership and you will receive instructions on how to post and manage your subscription.
Do you have something to add to the announcements? Please contact Hannah Anderson
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