Adaptive Management Oversight Comittee Meeting April 22 Safford
Apr 9th, 2008 by admin
Endangered Species Updates
April 8, 2008
AMWG Public Meeting on April 22, 2008
On April 22, 2008, the interagency Mexican Wolf Adaptive Management Oversight Committee (AMOC) will host a public Adaptive Management Work Group (AMWG) meeting in Safford, Arizona. This meeting has been moved from Reserve, New Mexico, due to inability to secure a meeting room there.
The meeting will be from 6 to 9 pm, at the Quality Inn & Suites, 420 East Highway 70, Safford, Arizona 85546. The meeting will adjourn early, if business has been completed.
A draft agenda follows below. However, the agencies present in the meeting may modify the agenda without notice.
6:00 pm Welcome, introductions, ground rules, and agenda review
6:15 pm Miscellaneous Interagency Field Team updates
Vacancies, hirings, and other staffing issues
Depredation and nuisance responses in 1st quarter 2008
Outreach activities in 1st quarter 2008
End-of-Year Count for 2007
Annual Work Plan for 2008
Annual Reports for 2007
Other Field Team activities
7:15 pm Break
7:30 pm Miscellaneous AMOC updates
NEPA scoping process for the 10(j) rule
Clarification Memos for SOPs 5.0 (Initial Releases)
and 6.0 (Translocations)
New SOPs 25.0 (Media Access) and 27.0
(Population Monitoring)
Clarification Memos for SOPs 11.0 (Depredation Incident
Investigation), and 13.0 (Control of Mexican Wolves)
8:30 pm Other business
8:45 pm Dates and locations of other 2008 and 2009 AMWG meetings
9:00 pm Adjournment
Note: Information on the Reintroduction Project’s 5-Year Review and its Standard Operating Procedures is available at http://azgfd.gov/wolf and http://mexicanwolf.fws.gov.
Note: Information on Adaptive Management Work Group meetings and other issues pertaining to the Reintroduction Project is disseminated electronically through a self-subscription newsletter, the Endangered Species Updates. Please access the subscription form at: http://azgfd.gov/signup.
Note: E-mail pertaining to Reintroduction Project issues should be sent to mexwolf@azgfd.gov. Please note that this is a passive email account; information submitted to it will be read and used within the Reintroduction Project, but individual responses will not be sent.
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