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Working Across Boundaries to Protect Ecosystems
Date: March 11-13, 2008
Location: Camp KulaquaCourse Coordinator: Linda Demetropoulos, Manager, Natural Areas Training Academy, TNC.
The goals of this workshop are to demonstrate how political, social and ecological forces can negatively affect natural areas and how some managers are working to address these issues through innovative strategies. In order to accomplish these goals, this workshop will include the following elements:
- A field tour of the Ichetucknee Springs watershed area and Park to thoroughly examine the situation and proposed solutions
- Study of the theory and practice of ecosystem management
- An opportunity for participants to evaluate other ecosystems within the context of the case studies presented
- Tools for evaluating ecosystem threats that operate at ecosystem levels and ways to determine strategies that operate at that scale
- Examples of partnerships and people who are working effectively to address ecosystem-scale threats
- Tools for working with and in partnerships and community: communication, facilitation and collaborative process techniques for helping people work together
Read article describing the 2007 "Working Across Boundaries" course