9:15 a.m.
Awards Presentation: North Central Division - American Fisheries Society
Presented by: Melissa Wuellner, President, North Central Division of the American Fisheries Society
9:30 a.m.
Awards Presenation: The Wildlife Society
Presented by: Mike Larson, President, North Central Section of The Wildlife Society
9:45 a.m.
Awards Presentation: Janice Lee Fenske Memorial Award
Presented by: Jessica Mistak
The Janice Lee Fenske Memorial Award was created in 2005 to recognize undergraduate and graduate students for their achievements in the field of fisheries or wildlife management. Each year, up to 25 Fenske Memorial Award finalists are selected based on their enthusiasm to protect fisheries and wildlife resources through management activities, selflessness and motivation to teach others, interest in professional involvement, integrity, positive attitude, and compassion.
Come and join us for light hors d’oeuvres and conversation! This event will provide a unique opportunity for students to meet, ask questions, and network with many fish and wildlife leaders from around the region. Professionals will be grouped by interest and employment type in a small room setting where students will meet professionals first in a round-robin type rotation, followed by an open forum for follow up questions or further networking.
NOTE: DeVos Place Convention Center is attached to the host hotel by skywalk.
Sponsored by: Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Fisheries & Wildlife Divisions; and The Hal & Jean Glassen Memorial Foundation.
Emcee: Bill O’Neil, Deputy Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Highlights of the event include the honorable Rosalyn Bliss, Mayor of Grand Rapids; Austen Brauker, Traditional Drum*; historic 1928 Spillman Carousel; fun discovery games, and exciting prize drawings. Entries for the prize drawings can be earned by attending the Museum event, participating in the evening’s games, and by participating in the earlier Student/Professional Mixer. The Van Dort Print Shop will be printing souvenir conference bookmarks on the antique press. Food and beverages will be served throughout the evening.
Museum Special Sturgeon Exhibit: Grand River, Grand Fish explores how the Great Lakes region’s largest and oldest fish, the Lake Sturgeon, once found in great abundance, is now a threatened species in our watersheds. The exhibit takes visitors through the connections to Native Americans, fishing history in the region and current science.
* Austen Brauker is a member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. He is an artist, painting murals, and creates many different traditional native crafts and various other forms of visual art. Austen is a long time musician and has performed regularly since he started playing music over thirty years ago. Austen plays many different styles of music on acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, lap steel and slide blues. He plays the Native American flute and sings with a traditional Odawa drum group in Manistee, Michigan. He recently scored the soundtrack for an educational sturgeon documentary that was filmed locally, spotlighting the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians sturgeon rearing program.
The Museum is approximately 3-minutes walking distance from the hotel. If preferred or needed, shuttle service will be provided to and from the Museum, making continuous loops for the duration of the Reception. Shuttle departs from Lyon Street entrance of the Amway Grand Hotel.
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Central Michigan University
8:00 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Doug Reeves, Co-Chair Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division
8:55 a.m.
Competing Values in Great Lakes Resource Management
Dr. Frank Lupi, Michigan State University
Professor Frank Lupi is a Natural Resource and Environmental Economist with appointments in the Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics and the Fisheries and Wildlife Departments at Michigan State University. He is a member of the Partnership for Ecosystem Research and Management, a collaborative effort between scientists at Michigan State University and Great Lakes resource management agencies. Lupi is an ecosystem valuation expert whose applied research addresses the economics of ecosystem services, fisheries, wildlife, and water. Current projects address resource management issues in the Great Lakes including the valuation of recreational fisheries; public demand and values for water quality; economic benefits of reducing non-point pollution from agriculture in Great Lakes watersheds; economic benefits of public lands for hunting; benefits of wildlife habitat restoration; and payment for environmental service policies to incentivize provision of ecosystem services.
AUTHORS: Handler, S., L. Brandt, P. Butler, M. Janowiak, C. Swanston, and P.D. Shannon
ABSTRACT: The Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science has built a successful approach that helps land managers pursue climate change adaptation (www.forestadaptation.org). The guiding principle is that we can get a lot more done by working together. NIACS coordinated a series of ecosystem vulnerability assessments for forest ecosystems across the Midwest, which were co-created with diverse groups of managers and researchers. A flexible but rigorous Adaptation Workbook helps translate general climate change expectations to specific risks and opportunities at the scale of management decisions. A “menu” of adaptation strategies and approaches helps users generate concrete adaptation actions. More than 120 real-world case studies across the Midwest and Northeast US illustrate how land managers have used the Adaptation Workbook. These examples cover a wide range of scales, ecosystem types, and ownerships, and show how land managers can prepare for climate change while still meeting land management and conservation goals.