Background of the Conservation Education Strategy
The decision to create a national strategy was the result of a three day Summit on Conservation Education convened by the Association at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia (Dec. 6-9 2004).
The Association's North American Conservation Education Strategy was forged by a subset of summit participants, in Alabama , February 2005. Taking the information from the Summit and boiling it down over three days was not an easy chore but is was accomplished with zeal. The small working group set the following sideboards:
• This will be a Strategy for the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (Association)
• It will only address that part of conservation education which focuses on fish, wildlife, and their management.
• It will only address those issues that are national or North American in scope.
• Strategy will always be an evolving document.
The Strategy at this point is a broad foundation that allows us to move forward. Each of the five goals within the Strategy came directly from summit participants. The Strategy is in the process of being further developed.
The group, who volunteered their time to participate and or assist in this meeting, included:
Jerry de Bin Alabama Dept Conservation I & E & CE Summit Chair
Alan Crook Ontario Ministries of Natural Resources
Doug Darr Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries
Kevin Frailey Idaho Fish and Game
Suzie Gilley Virginia Game & Inland Fisheries
Sally Guynn Management Assistance Team & Chair EOD Working Group
Nancy Herron Texas Parks and Wildlife
Don MacLauchlan International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
Bruce Matthews Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation
Corky Pugh Alabama Wildlife & Freshwater Fisheries & EOD Committee Chair
Jeff Rucks Colorado Division of Wildlife
Glen Salmon Indiana Division of Fish & Wildlife
Sharon Rushton Consultant & EOD Vice-Chair
Dwight Guynn Facilitator, Management Assistance Team
Ray Metzler Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries
Erica Shipman Alabama Marine Police
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