General Session PowerPoint Presentations
Annual Meeting 2007

Jon Gasset
Commissioner, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission

Edward Parker
Past President, Association
..... Bureau Chief Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection

Keynote: Climate Change and Wildlife Overview
Virginia Burkett Ph.D.
......Chief Scientist for Global Change Research, USGS

Panel I: Climate Change, Fish and Wildlife

• “Global Warming Impacts on Big Game Winter Habitat”
  ....Mike Berger, Wildlife Division Director, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
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• “Trout in a Warming Environment:  No Kitchen Door”
  .....Fred Harris, Interim Director, North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission
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• "Birds and Climate Change
  Dave Erickson, Wildlife Division Chief in Missouri Department of Conservation
  

• Ecosystem Effects of Climate Change on Declining Herpetofauna Mike Harris, Chief of Nongame Conservation Section Wildlife Resources Division Georgia Department Natural Resources
  

• “Agricultural Conservation and Climate Change”
  Greg Wathen, Chief Wildlife Management Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
  
  
  
• “Invasive species”
  Larry Riley, Division Coordinator, Wildlife Management Division Arizona Game and Fish Department
  

• "Climate change and the Future of Wildlife in North America: Where do we go from here?”
  John Organ, President, The Wildlife Society, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  

     Break        

    Panel II: State Fish and Wildlife Directors

• Midwest: Dave Schad
  Director Division of Fish and Wildlife
  Minnesota Department of Natural, Resources
  
  
  
• Northeast: Doug Austen
  Executive Director
  Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
  

• Southeast: Ken Haddad
  Executive Director
  Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission
  

• West: Duane Shroufe
  Director
  Arizona Game and Fish
  
  
  

• Alaska: Ken Taylor
  Deputy Commissioner
  Alaska Department Fish and Game
  
  

           Closing Remarks