Continuing Education for Natural Resource Professionals - WFW

Not Offered for 2012 - Request in AgLearn to receive any updates
Program Management (PMB)
Utah State University
Program Management - Round II (PMBII)
Utah State University

Technical Leadership

Multi-disciplinary

Cancelled - 2012; Request in AgLearn for FY13
Policy and Legal Aspects of Endangered Species Management (PLA-I) - Introduction
Lewis and Clark College

Postponed for Fall FY12 or Winter FY13; Request in AgLearn
Water Resource Management for Line Officers
USDA Forest Service

Cancelled - 2012; Request in AgLearn for FY13
Landscape Ecology (LE)
University of Massachusetts (UMass); hosted at Northern Arizona University (NAU)

May 7 - 10, 2012
Endangered Species Act for Line Officers + Policy and Legal Aspects of Endangered Species Management (ESAL+PLA)
Lewis and Clark College

May 21 - 25, 2012
Foundations of Ecological Monitoring in a Management Context (FEMMC)
Sound Science LLCC

Webinar delivery - intend to offer Spring 2012
Host at Your Unit
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Plain & Simple! Document Writing (PSDW)
Dr. Jud Monroe, Environmental Planning & Documentation LLC

Request on AgLearn or email National Program Leader - Try Landscape Ecology workshop
Managing Forested Ecosystems (MFE)

Not Offered for FY12
Request in AgLearn for FY13/Fall 2012
Policy and Legal Aspects of Endangered Species Management (PLA-A) - Advanced
Lewis and Clark College

Terrestrial

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Asking & Answering the Right Monitoring Questions (AARMQ)
Sound Science, LLC

Cancelled - 2012; Request in AgLearn to recieve updates on possible single-topic webinars
Wildlife Conservation and Management (WCM)
Northern Arizona University

August 14 - 16, 2012
Innovative Approaches to Wildlife and Highway Interactions (IAWHI)
USDA Forest Service and USDI Fish & Wildlife Service/NCTC; register at DOI LEARN

On Demand - Request in AgLearn
Planning for Environmentally-Sensitive Highway Projects (EcoHWY)
USDA Forest Service and USDI Fish & Wildlife Service/NCTC

GIS and Remote Sensing (GIS)
There are a number of vendor options available for this type of training. Check the GIS web site for the options we know about.

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Vegetation Monitoring in a Management Context (VM)
Sound Science, LLC

Winter 2012
Vegetation Monitoring in a Management Context (VM)
The Nature Conservancy/University of Florida

Aquatic

R1: March 26 - 30, 2012
R2: April 2012
R9: May 2012
Request in AgLearn and Coordinate with your Regional Fish/Hydrology/Engineers staff
Designing for Aquatic Organism Passage at Road-Stream Crossings (AOP)
USDA Forest Service - Stream Systems Technology Center with Regions

May 2012 - Weekly Conference Call/Live Meeting over multiple months
Advanced Concepts in Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis (ACAEA)
Utah State University/USDA Forest Service - Distance Learning delivery

May 14 - 18, 2012
Stream and Watershed Restoration Design and Implementation (NR20)
USDA Forest Service - PNW Aquatic Training Program

June 11 - 15, 2012
Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring and Evaluation - Western (NR16)
USDA Forest Service - PNW Aquatic Training Program

On Demand - Any Time of Year
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Aquatic Monitoring - Eastern (AM)
Utah State University (host): On Demand. Call vendor to schedule a workshop where you want it when you want it. Eastern version of NR16.

On Demand
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Watershed Restoration (WR)

Watershed

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Predicting Bedload Transport in Gravel-bed Streams: Computation and Field Technique (Bedload)
USDA Forest Service, University of Colorado, Johns Hopkins University, Colorado State University

Workshops on Demand

Dr. Brett Roper (USDA Forest Service and Utah State University Department of Aquatic, Watershed and Earth Resources) offers assorted aquatic workshop topics "on demand". He will work with you on hosting aquatic workshops in your area. Generally there is a 10 to 15 participant minimum. Invite natural resource professionals from your area other federal agencies, tribal organizations, state, city, private, international and companies. You work with Brett to develop a curriculum to best meet your needs.

Contact: Dr. Brett Roper, 435-755-3566 or broper@fs.fed.us

Current options include:

Basin Surveys & Applications (including inventories)
Aquatic Monitoring - Eastern
Sampling Amphibians - Objective: explain and demonstrate sampling methods for a variety of amphibians and associated habitats.
Data Analysis using Excel^TM - Objectives: design Pivot Tables; use ANOVA and Regression Analysis; interpret data.
Technical & Scientific Writing - Objectives: analyze data; write professional quality technical documents and scientific articles to be disseminated broadly to the public.

Dr. Steve McMullin (McMulling Training and Consulting; affiliated with Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University) and other instructors from the popular Leadership and Communications (LAC) workshop will bring any piece of LAC to your district or forest. This is a cost-effective way to provide high-quality training to your employees. This includes Myers-Briggs psychological type as a basic building block for interpersonal communication and team building. Other workshops can include leadership and management, conflict resolution, working effectively with the media, and effective writing and speaking for natural resource professionals. The Advanced LAC workshop is modified to incorporate follow-up coaching. This will allow the vendor to work with each participant to ensure that he/she gets the most out of the feedback from the instruments and incorporates that feedback into a personal development plan. It is important for participants in this workshop to come into it with a working knowledge of Myers-Briggs (it was designed as a follow-up to the regular LAC workshop).

The workshops on demand are also relatively new. As budgets tightened and travel becomes more restricted, Dr. McMullin is offering more training on districts and forests. The workshops on demand can be tailored to your needs and address any topic covered in the 2-week LAC workshop. To be most cost-effective, the workshops usually are 1.5 to 2 days long. Myers-Briggs is a popular topic of the workshops thus far, usually combined with team building or conflict resolution/dealing with difficult people. Dr. McMullin has done these workshops for Forest Leadership Teams, Districts, and for several combined Districts. This approach is very cost-effective, because Dr. McMullin can provide 2 days of high-quality training to 40 or more people for about the same cost as sending 4 people to the LAC workshop in a different location. Contact the vendor for examples, evaluations and references.

Contact: Dr. Steve McMullin, 540-818-1670, smcmulli@verizon.net
www.mcmullintraining.com

Sandra Jacobson and Terry Brennan offer "Planning for Environmentally-Sensitive Highway Projects.
Objective: streamline and improve delivery of an environmentally-sensitive highway project using the context-sensitive planning approach in an interdisciplinary and interagency planning team. Instructors are an interdisciplinary team (transportation ecology specialists: wildlife biologists, engineers, hydrologists, soil scientists, botanists, and recreation planners). Target audience: interagency, interdisciplinary team and line officers working together on a multi-year project including highway project planning. Topics include agency differences in NEPA, time lines, funding mechanisms and policy. Course structure might allow some disciplines to participate for less than the entire week.