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California Resources Agency
Sponsors
Platinum:
Desert Managers Group
California Department of Parks and Recreation
CA OHV Recreation Division
Trust for Public Land
The Wildlands Conservancy
US Geological Survey
Gold:
State Parks Foundation
Bureau Land Management
Silver:
Defenders of Wildlife
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January 16: Day 1
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| 1:00 pm |
Welcome by Ron Rempel, CA Department
of Fish and Game, Deputy Director, Habitat Conservation Division,
and David Widell, CA Department of Parks and Recreation, Deputy
Director, Off- Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division. |
| 1:30 |
Introductions and workshop overview. |
| 1:45 |
Presentation and discussion of the Legacy
Project: Madelyn Glickfeld, The Resources Agency, Assistant Secretary,
California Legacy Project.
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| 2:30 |
Break |
| 2:45 |
Presentation of existing regional planning
efforts: Bill Havert, Executive Director, Coachella Valley Mountains
Conservancy; Bill Haight, Lead, West Mojave Plan, Desert District,
Bureau of Land Management; Dick Crowe, Resource Management Specialist,
Desert District, Bureau of Land Management. |
| 3:45 |
Brainstorm session on, regional concerns,
issues and challenges.
Objective: To gain a sense of the unique issues and challenges of
the region and how they affect conservation efforts. |
| 4:30 |
Information Exchange; light buffet. Objective:
To share information on natural resources, rural recreation and
working landscapes in the region.
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| 6:30 pm |
Adjourn
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January 17: Day 2
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| 8:00 am |
Information Exchange; continental breakfast
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| 8:30 |
Welcome. |
| 8:45 |
Introduction to 2nd day's activities;
brief review of 1st day; review of small-group exercise.
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| 9:00 |
First small group session; regional perspectives.
Objective: To gain a sense of additional natural resource, working
landscape and recreational planning needs beyond those already underway;
future state partnership opportunities to aid in natural resource
and working landscape conservation and the provision of recreational
opportunities; and the greatest needs for implementing conservation
plans.
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| 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:15 |
Potential Uses of the California Conservation
Digital Atlas.
Objective: To allow participants to review this web-based tool with
interactive maps that can help support planning efforts.
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| 11:45 |
Information Exchange; buffet lunch.
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| 1:30 |
Explanation of afternoon small group
session.
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| 1:45 |
Second small group session; strategies
that support resource conservation and economic needs.
Objective: To gain a sense of those conservation priorities and
specific strategies that can offer mutual benefit to conservation
and local economies.
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| 2:40 |
Break
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| 2:50 |
Report back on workshop results to Luree
Stetson, Deputy Secretary for Environmental Programs, The Resources
Agency.
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| 4:00 |
Brief discussion of next steps and adjourn. |
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