Dates: March 15 and 16, 2016
Location: Lewis & Clark Conference Room, University of Montana Western, Dillon, MT
Workshop Title: High Divide for the Next Generation – What can we do today to leave vibrant communities and healthy lands and resources?
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Workshop Goals
1 – Start a process for High Divide Stakeholders to express their vision for the desired future condition of the High Divide Landscape, a vision that sustains vibrant local communities, economies and resources. To this end we will:
- Confirm stakeholder community and conservation goals for the High Divide
- Share knowledge of current and projected human populations and development
- Share current information on the status of some of our High Divide priority resources and issues: Water, Communities and Wildfire, Sage Grouse, Wildlife Connectivity
- Update one another on resource issues and conservation
- Learn stakeholder perspectives of the future for: Water, Communities and Wildfire, Sage Grouse, Wildlife Connectivity
2 – Advance the High Divide Collaborative
- Continue to build trust and credibility within the collaborative and amongst stakeholders
- Continue to discover added value through collaboration
- Discuss a more formal governance for the Collaborative
High Divide Workshop Goals and Agenda March 15-16 2016
Planning Committee
Brooke Erb – Rancher – Dillon
Matt Pieron – IDFG Mule Deer Initiative – Idaho Falls
Ann Schwend – DNRC Upper Missouri Basin Water Planner – Helena
Virginia Kelly – Gallatin Custer NF – Bozeman
Karen Rice – retired BLM Liaison – Idaho Falls
Melly Rueling – Center for Large Landscape Conservation – Bozeman
Kris Inman – Wildlife Conservation Society – Ennis
Ben Alexander or Patty Gude – Headwaters Economics – Bozeman
Yvette Converse – GNLCC Coordinator, USFWS – Bozeman
Michael Whitfield – Heart of the Rockies – Driggs
There is no charge to attend the workshop.
Lodging Options:
- Best Western at (406) 683-4214
- Guest House Inn at (406) 683-3636
- Comfort Inn (406) 683-6831