[Denveraudubon] Pawnee National Grasslands: Adopt an IBA Planning Meeting on November 4: Agenda, Carpooling, Update

[Charles Thornton-Kolbe]

1. Please participate in the Adopt an IBA (Important Bird Area) Conservation  Group for Pawnee National Grasslands on November 4.  PLEASE RSVP SO THAT WE CAN PLAN FOR THE GROUP SIZE.  An email RSVP to charles at sharenature.org is just fine.  See full agenda and solo driving directions below.
   
  2. Carpooling from Denver for November 4 (Saturday):   Meet at 11:35 AM at the 
  Thornton Park N Ride just west of I-25 and 88th.  We will meet in the northeast corner of this Park N Ride Parking Lot.   We will leave promptly at 11:40 AM.
   
  3. IF YOU HAVE INTERNET DEVELOPMENT SKILLS AND WANT TO HELP OUT, WE ALSO NEED YOUR HELP.  I AM USING YAHOO SITE BUILDER AS THE HTML EDITOR (which is not much more complex than Microsoft Word).  We are currently putting the conservation area surveys online so folks can do conservation surveys anytime.  I probably need 3 to 6 hours worth of help.
   
   
   
   
  Agenda: Adopt and IBA Project Group
  For Pawnee National Grasslands
  November 4, 2006 from  1:00 PM to 3:15 PM  At Greeley Field office of Pawnee National Grasslands, 660 “O” Street, Greeley, Colorado
  File:  agPNG-AdoptIBA-2.doc
   
  Note on Carpool from Denver:  Meet at 11:35 AM at the Thornton Park N Ride just west of I-25 and 88th.  We will meet in the northeast corner of this Park N Ride Parking Lot.
   
  Objective:  Determine how to develop, an Adopt-an-IBA program to support bird and wildlife conservation efforts at Pawnee National Grasslands.  
   
  1.      Review Objective/Review and Set Agenda and Time/Assign Time Keeper
   
  2.      How Work Towards Goal:  Identify locations highly utilized by wildlife and focus conservation and interpretation efforts there.
  ·         Forest Service- present what you are doing now, what things you have learned?
  ·         IBA group- How can we work with and help the Forest Service?
  ·         IBA group-What else would we like to do?
   
  3.      How Work Towards Goal:  Identify and monitor threats to birds.
    
   Forest Service- present what you are doing now, what things you have learned?  
   IBA group- How can we work with and help the Forest Service?  
   IBA group-What else would we like to do?
   
  4.      How Work Towards Goal:  Survey of prairie dog towns
    
   Forest Service- present what you are doing now, what things you have learned?  
   IBA group- How can we work with and help the Forest Service?  
   IBA group-What else would we like to do?
   
  5.      How Work Towards Goal:  Reducing Impact of Target Shooting
    
   Forest Service- present what you are doing now, what things you have learned?  
   IBA group- How can we work with and help the Forest Service?  
   IBA group-What else would we like to do?
   
  6.      Help with Coordination and Contacts
    
   Assign Coordinator for Work Projects??  
   Group Contact Coordinator
   
  7.      Other Issues:
    
   Anytime Conservation Area Surveys  
   Wind Energy  
   Oil and Gas Lease Sales
   
  8.      Set Next Meeting Data and Location and Set Next Work Day
   
  9.      Meeting Follow-Up and Evaluation
  ·          Key Questions:
  ·          Were decision made?
  ·          Were there action items not addressed?
  ·          Did we stray from agenda?
  ·          Did we start and stop on-time?
  ·          Were participants prepared?
  ·          Did participants have preparation tools?\
  ·          What did we do well?
  ·          What could we have done better?
  ·          What preparation needed for next meeting?
   
   
   
  Directions from Mapquest to 660 “O” Street in Greeley from Denver
   
          Merge onto I-25 N / US-87 N.
    50 Miles (estimate on I-25 north from Denver)
    Map
     
      
      
    6:
    Merge onto US-34 E via EXIT 257B toward GREELEY / ESTES PARK / ROCKY MTN NATL PARK.
    16.8 miles
    Map
      
      
    7:
    Merge onto US-85 N via the ramp on the LEFT toward CHEYENNE.
    4.5 miles
    Map
      
      
    8:
    Turn RIGHT onto O ST.
    <0.1 miles
    Map
      
      
    9:
    End at US Forestry Dept: 
660 O St, Greeley, CO 80631, US 
     
   
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