February 2017

A collaborative new partnership between the Appalachian Wildlife Foundation, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, and others is working to establish wildlife-related tourism in the southern Appalachian region of Kentucky and the surrounding states by building a state-of-the-art wildlife education facility designed to share with visitors the incredible natural resources of the region.

The 2017 North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference will host a workshop titled ?Bridging Science and Management: Maintaining Relevancy through Organization Transformation and Professional Development,? organized and sponsored by The Wildlife Society, the American Fisheries Society, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the USGS Cooperative Research Units, and the Wildlife Management Institute. This workshop will build upon the discussions of the successful 2016 workshop, ?Barriers and Bridges in Connecting Natural Resource Science and Management,? which was organized by the same coalition of sponsors. Scheduled for Tuesday, March 7 from 1 to 5 p.m., this workshop will focus on the many social, demographic, and resource changes facing organizations in the years ahead, and prospects for transformation to sustain organization relevancy and effectiveness through workforce training and professional development.