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Conference committee Welcome Conference Organizer Curt Pavola, Washington DNR Conference Coordinator to Vancouver, Deb Kraus, Natural Areas Association Program Chair Washington, USA Pene Speaks, Washington DNR Field Trip Committee Chair Carlo Abbruzzese, Washington DNR he Washington Department of Co-Sponsor and Exhibitor Natural Resources is pleased to co-host the Committee Chair 36th annual Natural Areas Conference. Kelly Heintz, Washington DNR We are proud to partner with the Natural Program Coordinator Blanche Sobottke, Areas Association to provide this time of artist-writer-editor peer-to-peer education, insightful and Graphic Design thought-provoking plenary speakers, and Luis Prado, Washington DNR social activities to foster enduring professional relationships. Conference Planning WeT hope every conferee will learn something new, meet Committee Members Mary Coacher, Washington DNR someone new and leave the conference with a renewed Birdie Davenport, Washington DNR enthusiasm for your life’s work. John Gamon, Washington DNR Alison Hitchcock, Washington DNR Right up front, we want to say: Your work matters! Marsha Hixson, Washington DNR Anna Jones, Washington DNR You are on the leading edge of land and resource Stan Kurowski, Washington DNR management that literally means life or death to creatures David Wilderman, Washington DNR large and small, to habitats local and worldwide. Rob Fimbel, Washington State Parks Bonnie Bunning Your work,―our work,―is vital to the future of every living Peter Dunwiddie thing on the planet. Elizabeth Rodrick, WDFW The staff of Washington DNR’s Natural Areas Program and Natural Heritage Program are here to serve you this week. Let us know if you need anything to make your stay in Vancouver USA the best it can be. And please take a moment to thank the conference co-sponsors (see inside back cover). Without their generous support, this event would not have been possible.

Enjoy the Natural Areas Conference and your time in the Pacific Northwest!

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bidders must pay for their items on Questions? Wednesday night. Arrangements can Stop in at the registration table, or be made for shipping through NAA. All We are look for helpers wearing Volunteer auction proceeds support the conference ribbons. Urgent messages for conferees and the work of the Natural Areas here to serve will be posted at the registration table. Association. If you’ve brought items to donate to the auction, please drop you this week. them off at the registration table when Name Badges you arrive, and no later than 2:00 p.m. Please wear your name badge to all Wednesday. Let us know conference sponsored events. It is if you need your ticket to access symposia, sessions, Field Trips breaks, socials and the banquet. At the conclusion of the conference, please Look for a ticket in your name anything to recycle your plastic name badge holder in tag holder showing your pre- the box at the registration table. registered field trip.If you have make your stay questions regarding your scheduled trip, visit the registration table Speaker Preparation Room the best it from 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday through Computers will be available for speakers 2:00 p.m. Wednesday. Changing field can be. in the Alder Room, behind the registration trips is discouraged, but any field trip desk, during conference hours. changes must be made by 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Meals and Dining Out Student Awards Your full conference registration fee includes mini-breakfast items We want to thank those students on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday who entered the student mornings, reception appetizers on awards contest, and also the contest Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, the sponsor, Vickie Larson, president Keynote Luncheon and the evening of Ecospatial Analysts, Inc. (www. Banquet on Wednesday, the field trip ecospatialanalysts.com). Contest box lunch on Thursday (pick up in the winners will be recognized in Natural morning), and, if you confirm ahead of Area News and posted on the NAA time, the Annual Membership Meeting website. lunch on Friday. All other meals are on your own. Downtown Vancouver has Conference T-Shirts a variety of restaurants within walking distance of the conference headquarters Be sure to stop at the Natural hotel. Refer to the restaurant list and Areas Association booth to pick up map in your conference folder. If you’ve your official 36th Annual Natural Areas requested vegetarian meals, look for a Conference T-shirt. These 100% organic ticket for each meal in your name tag cotton shirts are printed with water- holder that will help the hotel staff serve based ink and fair trade practices, you more quickly. are long-lasting and will remind you of your trip in 2009 to the Pacific Northwest. The conference T-shirts are Auction 100 percent sustainably produced and An eclectic array of silent and live a high quality product that will outlive auction items will be displayed in normal screen-printed products. You’ll Heritage Rooms E & F for your bidding get a terrific T-shirt that also reflects our pleasure beginning on Tuesday morning. social and environmental values. They Bidding will close on silent auction items make great souvenirs so get yours now during Wednesday evening’s banquet, and take a few home for family and just prior to the live auction. Winning friends! 4 36th natural areas conference program 2009 Conference Schedule At-a-Glance

All meetings are held in the Vancouver Conference Center and Hilton Hotel

Monday, September 14 Session/Event Room

4:00 p.m. Registration Opens Foyer

5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday Mixer Foyer (Informal Gathering with Refreshments)

6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. “Living On The Edge Cinema” (Short Film Features) Discovery D

Tuesday, September 15 Session/Event Room

8:00 a.m. Registration and Exhibits Open Foyer

9:00 a.m. to noon State Natural Areas Programs Roundtable Discovery A

9:00 a.m. to noon Federal Natural Areas Roundtable Discovery B

9:00 a.m. to noon ArcPad/GPScorrect/GPS Analyst Workshop Discovery C

1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Opening Plenary Session: Heritage Ballroom Peter Goldmark, Pat Pringle, Sam Green and Robert Michael Pyle

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Opening Reception Exhibit Area/Foyer

8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. “Living On The Edge Cinema” (Short Film Features) Discovery D

Wednesday, September 16 Session/Event Room

7:30 a.m. Registration and Exhibits Open; Foyer Coffee & Bakery Fare

8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Early Morning Concurrent Sessions

10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Mid Morning Break, Coffee Exhibit Area

10:30 a.m. to noon Late Morning Concurrent Sessions

Noon to 1:45 p.m. Luncheon and Keynote Speaker George Divoky Heritage Ballroom

2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Early Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mid Afternoon Break, Coffee Exhibit Area

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Late Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Banquet Reception and Silent Auction Heritage Ballroom

6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Annual Banquet, Awards Presentations, Photographer Keith Lazelle and Live Auction Birch

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First Floor Second Floor

Thursday, September 17 Session/Event Room

7:00 a.m. Registration and Exhibits Open, Foyer Coffee, Bakery Fare

8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Field Trip Buses and Vans Depart, Conference Center Pick Up Box Lunches in Heritage Ballroom Entrance

6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Poster Session and Social Heritage C, D

6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. NAEPPC Forum Birch Room (2nd Floor)

Evening Dinner On The Town (On Your Own)

9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. “Living On The Edge Cinema” (Short Film Features) Discovery D

9:00 p.m. to midnight Natural Areas Jam Session Discovery A Bring Your Musical Instrument and a Song To Share! Refreshments Available.

Friday, September 18 Session/Event Room

7:00 a.m. Registration and Exhibits Open, Coffee, Bakery Fare Foyer

7:15 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. Interpretive Walk to Vancouver Meet In Exhibit Area Land Bridge Along the Columbia River

8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Plenary Session: Native Plant Materials Heritage Ballroom Development Program, with Peggy Olwell

10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Mid Morning Break, Coffee Exhibit Area

10:30 a.m. to noon Morning Concurrent Sessions

Noon to 1:30 p.m. NAA Annual Membership Meeting & Lunch Heritage Ballroom (Lunch Available for Those who Pre-Confirmed)

2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Early Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mid Afternoon Break, Coffee Exhibit Area

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. NAEPPC Board/Business Meeting Oak Room (2nd. Floor)

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Late Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

5:00 p.m. Official Conference Adjourns

6:00 p.m. Post-Conference Portland Evening on the Town (Individuals Make Their Own Arrangements. See Descriptions for the Microbrewery Tour and the Portland Spirit Dinner Cruise In Your Conference Packet) Highlights 6 36th natural areas conference program

Opening Plenary Tuesday Session and Regional Botanist/Research Natural Areas Heritage Ballroom Roundtable Coordinator, U.S. Forest Service; and Todd M. 1:30 p.m. State Natural Area Programs Wilson, Wildlife Biologist/Research Natural Kim Herman, President, 9:00 a.m. to Noon | Discovery A Areas Coordinator, U.S. Forest Service. Natural Areas Association, The State Natural Area Programs and Pene Speaks, Program Workshop Roundtable brings together state Chair, Natural Areas Conference ArcPad/ GPScorrect/GPS Analyst and Washington State natural area administrators who work in an Department of Natural Resources array of urban and rural settings to conserve 9:00 a.m. to Noon | Discovery C and restore biodiversity. Recognizing that ArcPad is software for mobile GIS 1:50 p.m. each state’s program is unique, roundtable and field mapping applications using Peter Goldmark, Washington participants see the benefit of an interactive handheld and mobile devices. ArcPad provides State Commissioner of Public forum for sharing successes, learning to field-based personnel with the ability to Lands survive challenging situations and bringing capture, analyze and display geographic new suggestions to colleagues back home. 2:10 p.m. information, without the use of costly and Every state program represented at the Natural Pat Pringle, Professor of Earth outdated paper map books and data sheets. Areas Conference is invited to participate in Science, Centralia College, “The This workshop will cover the fundamentals of the verbal “Roll Call of the States” during this Natural History of Washington GIS and all aspects of a data collection project roundtable session. This year we’ll also discuss State” with ArcPad, including building and optimizing program development activities and public a geodatabase, using ArcGIS tools for AcPad, 3:10 p.m. outreach. Bring your examples of “strategic using the Trimble GPScorrect extension for Break planning” documents or general promotional differentially correcting GPS positions, data items your program has created (including web 3:40 p.m. collectioin with GPS and processing data with pages). Facilitators: Curt Pavola is the Natural Sam Green, Washington GPS Analyst software. Jim Lahm is Areas Program Manager with the Washington Instructor: State Poet Laureate is an ESRI Authorized ArcPad Instructor from Department of Natural Resources; and Pete Electronic Data Solutions of Portland, OR. 4:00 p.m. Colverson is an environmental communications Robert Michael Pyle, specialist with Pandion Systems, Gainesville, Nature writer, “Natural Areas Florida. Pat Pringle as Antidote to the Extinction of Professor of Earth Science, Centralia College, “The Natural History of Experience” Roundtable Washington State” Federal Natural Areas Programs 5:10 p.m. 2:10 p.m. Heritage Ballroom Wrap-up and Adjourn 9:00 a.m. to Noon | Discovery B Pat will present an overview of the This session provides federal natural natural history of Washington State area managers and other interested through geologic time using the record of Opening participants with the opportunity for discussion rock and sediment environments to illuminate and networking. This year’s roundtable will the processes that built and altered the Reception highlight the recently completed “Interagency region. World-class geologic sites in the Strategy for the Pacific Northwest Natural Pacific Northwest preserve natural history in Exhibit Area Areas Network” (provided in your registration remarkable detail, and some of the geologic package). The discussion will focus on how 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. events occurred at mind-boggling scales. Munch and mingle individuals and agencies can help turn with friends old and new. existing collections of natural areas managed Geologic processes provide the underpinnings under various jurisdictions into “natural area for today’s natural systems, and their record Discovery D networks” that better address contemporary demonstrates how integrated Pacific Northwest 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. management and conservation issues than natural history is to changing geology and Living on the Edge Cinema might occur by managing them on a site-by- climate through time as plates and terranes See the flier in your conference site or agency-by-agency basis. Five themes moved from tropical latitudes to the north. packet for the week’s schedule will be emphasized:―inventory and designation, The region’s climates also changed because of short film screenings. management, research, monitoring and of shifting earth-sun relationships, tectonic data management, and education and plate movements and ocean basin changes communication. Other topics of importance and currents, volcanism, meteor impacts, and to participants may also be discussed. through the development and evolution of Facilitators: Steve Shelly, NAA Board Member Earth’s life forms and ecosystems. 7 36th natural areas conference program

Pat Pringle Robert Sam Green Michael Pyle Washington State Poet Laureate Pat Pringle is associate professor of Earth Science at Centralia College, Robert Michael Pyle’s 3:40 p.m. Heritage Ballroom Washington. Pat was a research undergraduate degree from Appointed by Governor Chris Gregoire, geologist at the Washington the University of Washington Sam Green is Washington’s first Poet Department of Natural Resources is perhaps the only one ever Laureate. He will share some of his work Division of Geology from 1990-2005. awarded in the field of “nature inspired by the nature of Washington and his He was on the volcanic hazards team perception and protection.” His own life “off-the-grid.” at the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades master’s in “nature interpretation” Volcano Observatory (CVO) from 1982 was followed by a doctorate to 1990, where he studied Mount Robert Michael Pyle in “ecology and environmental St. Helens post-1980 eruptive events Nature writer, “Natural Areas as studies” from Yale University. Pyle and geomorphic changes, worked Antidote to the Extinction of founded the Xerces Society for on volcanic hazard assessments of Experience” Invertebrate Conservation, and Mount Hood and Mount Rainier, and he’s received the Distinguished 4:00 p.m. Heritage Ballroom conducted studies of the history of Service Award from The Society for debris flows in Grand Canyon National Conservation Biology. Robert Michael Pyle is a noted and Park. He was public information well-traveled nature writer, storyteller, officer at CVO (1986-1987) during A full-time writer and independent lepidopterist, and conservation biologist. As the October 1986 “dome building biologist, Pyle’s fifteen books our featured Opening Plenary speaker, Pyle eruption.” include Wintergreen (winner of will explore “Natural Areas as Antidote to the the John Burroughs Medal for Extinction of Experience”: Pat is fascinated by volcanic processes distinguished nature writing), and the history of the Cascade Range. Where Bigfoot Walks (subject of “When our immediate and nearby environs He uses radiocarbon dating, tree a Guggenheim Fellowship), and become depleted of the elements of diversity, rings, and other techniques to compile Walking the High Ridge, as well as our contact suffers for it. This impoverishment recent geologic history, including that The Audubon Society Field Guide of experience leads to a populace that is of volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, to North American Butterflies, distanced, therefore alienated from, and and debris flows. He is the author Butterflies of Cascadia and several ultimately apathetic about wild plants, animals, of Roadside Geology of Mount St. other standard butterfly works. and their habitats. From such a separation Helens National Volcanic Monument His most recent book, Sky Time comes a lack of engagement, pointing in turn and Vicinity and Roadside Geology in Gray’s River: Living for Keeps in toward further losses. This cycle of loss, which of Mount Rainier National Park and a Forgotten Place, won the 2007 I call “the extinction of experience,” can have Vicinity, which was just announced National Outdoor Book Award serious social and biological consequences. For as the 2009 Best Guidebook Award for natural history literature and one, people become satisfied or complacent winner by the Geoscience Information was a finalist for the Orion and with the diminished baseline, knowing Society. He has authored or co- Washington Book Awards. not what they have lost. For another, the authored papers in Science, Northwest sort of psychological alchemy that makes Science, Geology, Earth Science, and naturalists and conservationists shuts down. Pyle lives along a tributary of the Geological Society of America Bulletin, Lower Columbia River in southwest Nothing works better to resist the extinction as well as several U.S. Geological of experience than natural areas. However, Washington with his wife, botanist Survey professional papers and other Thea Linnaea Pyle. He has recently that applies only if, in their conservation and journals, and he recently was invited management, such places continue to furnish completed the first Butterfly Big to submit a paper for the volume Year for a new book. personal engagement with diversity on the Tree-ring reconstructions in natural part of ordinary people as well as ecologists. hazards research: a state-of-the-art This dual burden on the land─to conserve the to be published in Advances in Global biota while perpetuating public contact─sets up Change Research by Springer-Verlag. an interesting and challenging management conundrum. Drawing upon my own experience Pat Pringle is president of the in the field and from my writing, I will paint my Northwest Scientific Association and ideas of place-based conservation, intimacy is a member of the Tree-Ring Society, with nature, and the roles they both should Geological Society of America, and the play in modern life.” American Geophysical Union. Species & Community Community Involvement Conservation Conservation and Education at Landscape Level

Discovery D Heritage E Discovery A Wednesday Concurrent Sessions

Time Session / Subject Session / Subject Session / Subject

Early Workshop Working Together The pacific northwest Morning Pollinators In Natural Areas: wild, urban, & rural A Primer On Habitat Management Scott Hoffman Black 8:30 Building Stewardship and Community: Guiding Conservation Actions in Washington with a Record of Achievement. Gary Smith, the State Biodiversity Council and the Conservation Catherine Hovanic Opportunity Framework. Lynn Helbrecht

9:00 Challenges and Strategies for Implement- Portland, Oregon: A Case Study In Protection ing a Successful Volunteer-Based Rare of Urban Natural Areas. Deborah Lev Plant Monitoring Project. Wendy Gibble

9:30 The USA National Phenology Network: Rural Growth Community Planning and Strategy: Tracking the Pulse of Natural Areas. Conserving Landscapes, Strengthening Rural Economies Kathryn Thomas and Engaging Community. Dan Stonington

10:00 Mid-Morning Break

Late Species Working Together Fragmentation & Morning conservation (continued) connectivity

10:30. Effects of Grass-Specific Herbicides On Butterflies: Restoring Degraded Prairies and Oak Moro Big Pine: Using Working Forest Conservation Experimental Investigations to Advance Savannas in the Pacific Northwest: Easements for Landscape-Scale Protection of Natural Conservation Efforts. Cheryl Schultz Results of a 5-Year, Multisite Experiment. Communities and Rare Species in Arkansas. Amanda Stanley Chris Colclasure

11:00 The Return of an Extirpated Plant to BC’s West Is River Rehabilitation Involving Alien Fish Lessons Learned Amidst the Lava: What a Naturally Coast. Ross Vennesland Eradication About Getting the Aliens Out Fragmented Landscape Can Tell Us About Human and or Getting the Anglers on Your Side? Natural Influences on Forests. Four South African Rivers as a Case Sharon Stanton History. Dean Impson

11:30 Discussion Discussion Lessons Learned Through Cooperative Conservation of a Rare Fragmented Habitat. Hannah Anderson

12:00 Plenary Luncheon with Keynote Speaker. End Time: 1:45 P.M.

Early Community conservation: Workshop fostering a passion Symposium Aftern. alpine & coastline for nature - Part 1 ecological integrity measures as a tool for conservation planning and 2:00 The Pikes Peak Alpine Lab: Frederick Clements on Reclaiming Our Special Places. real world application. the Edge of Succession (1910-1944). Steve Olson Robert Michael Pyle Joe Rocchio, Mary Anne Thiesing

2:30 Alternative Futures for Ecological Systems at the Edge of Coastal Development: An Australian Case Study. David Brunckhorst

3:00 Mid-Afternoon Break

Late Community conservation Fostering a passion for Symposium Aftern. forest & prairie nature - Part 2 Ecological integrity measures as a tool for conservation planning and 3:30 Forest Inventory and Monitoring of Ajloun Creating Cultural Connections. real world application (continued). Reserve, Jordan. Thomas DeMeo Eli Sterling Rex Crawford, Janet Sutter, Ginna Correa

4:00 Post-Tornado Salvage Logging Initially Increases Plant Diversity but Decreases Floristic Quality in an Oak-Shortleaf Pine Forest. J. Stephen Brewer

4:30 The Search for Tallgrass Prairie Remnants, Grass- Discussion. land Birds, Ornate Box Turtle, and Arogos Skipper Sterling and Pyle in the Arkansas Valley of Arkansas. Jennifer Akin

5:00 Session Ends Climatic Habitat and Ecosystem Current Research, Land Mgmt. Invasive Species Factors Restoration & Program Development (Sponsored by Naeppc)

Heritage F Discovery B Discovery E Discovery C

Session / Subject Session / Subject Session / Subject Session / Subject

Symposium Restoration in urban areas Student potpourri Prevention, early detection, Climate change: Part 1 mapping & information A HOT TOPIC IN NATURAL management AREAS MANAGEMENT Patty Glick, Despite Constraints: Habitat Creation and A Novel Motivator for Engaging Park Pathway Risk Analysis for Weed Spread Jessica Halofsky, Management in an Urban Park System. Neighbors in Ecological Restoration Projects. Within Australia. Michael Coleman Jeremy Littell Sarah Low Carin E. Vadala Cooper Mountain Nature Park: Lessons Conservation Easement Adoption: Map It! Zap It! Map It Again! Learned on Managing Natural Resources at Motivations, Variables, and the Decision Eddmaps Invasive Species Mapping Tools. the Urban Interface. Adam Stellmacher Process. James R. Farmer Chuck Bargeron

An Urban Park’s Vegetation Community: Discussion / Feedback Imapinvasives: A Web-Based Approach Impacts by Deer and Other Guests. to Invasive Species Data Aggregation, Terry Robison Mapping, Decision-Making and Action! Mandy Tu

Mid-Morning Break

Symposium Restoration and Fire Ecology Student potpourri Early detection, mapping Climate change: Part 2 & databases A HOT TOPIC IN NATURAL AREAS MANAGEMENT The Impact of Multiple Wildfires on Balsam Woolly Adelgid and Data Base of Plants Invading Natural Areas (continued) Sagebrush-Steppe Communities: Landscape Disturbance on the Olympic in the United States. Les Mehrhoff Geoff Hammerson, Implications for Restoration. Peninsula, WA. Karen Hutten Karen Reagan Eva Dettweiler-Robinson Prescribed Burning in State Park Properties The Use Of The Historical Record And Repeated Aerial Gps Census and Mapping of North Carolina and Nearby Coastal Graphical Information Systems To Generate to Assess Phragmites Rate-of-Spread and States. John Taggart A Suitability Map For Prairie Restoration In Control Treatment Efficacy on the Virginia Mississippi. Toby Gray Eastern. Rick Myers

Fire Regimes of Natural Protected Areas in Discussion / Feedback New Developments with the Cactus Moth Tropical America. Ernesto Alvarado (Cactoblastis cactorum berg) Detection and Monitoring Network Efforts. Victor L. Maddox

Plenary Luncheon with Keynote Speaker. End Time: 1:45 P.M.

Symposium Restoration in other habitats Workshop Biology, control & Climate change: USING SOCIAL MEDIA for management A HOT TOPIC IN NATURAL natural areas: AREAS MANAGEMENT Proactive Vegetation Management and UNDERSTANDING THE BENEFITS AND Environmental Impacts of Non-Herbicidal (continued) Restoration Efforts of the Arkansas Natural THE PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS. Control of Invasive Species. Jimmie Cobb George Divoky, Heritage Commission. Bryan Rupar Ash Shepherd Mark Quinn Cooperative Elk Conservation in Restored Controlling Japanese Barberry: Alternative Plant Communities in Buffalo National Methods and Impact on Tick Populations. River. Gary Vequist Jeffrey S. Ward

Mid-Afternoon Break

Symposium Restoration in other habitats Natural areas Biology, control & management Climate change: (continued) management tools (continued) & partnerships A HOT TOPIC IN NATURAL AREAS MANAGEMENT Mapping Existing Wetlands and Wetland Geological and Climatic Factors in Clas- Anthropogenic Disturbance and Fire: (continued) Restoration Potential on the Missouri River sification of Natural Areas for Sustainable Factors in Non-Native Plant Invasion at Panel Discussion Floodplain. David D. Diamond Development in Himalayan Landscape. Fort Pickett, Virginia. Patrick Guertin Ashok Pachauri

Cultivating Place-Based Ecosystem Change in Ecosystem Service of Phongsaly Issues in Natural Resource Management Restoration and Recovery: A Puget Sound National Biodiversity Conservation Areas in in an Urban Setting: Reston Association, Basin Case Study. Jennifer Knauer lao pdr. Chanhda Hemmavanh Virginia. Claudia Thompson-Deahl

The Tarboo-Dabob Bay Watershed Project. Reporting the Results of Long-Term Establishing a Successful Cooperative Peter Bahls Monitoring: Control Charts and Information Weed Management Area: A Look Back at Theoretic Modeling. Lloyd Morrison the First Three Years of the River-to-River Cwma. Christopher Evans

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Keynote Wednesday Speaker and Luncheon

Workshop Symposium Heritage Ballroom Pollinators in Natural Areas: Climate Change: Noon to 1:45 p.m. A Primer on Habitat A Hot Topic in Natural Areas Management Management George Divoky Being “close to the edge” may not be 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. obvious, until you cross that edge, or... Discovery D Heritage F worst case...fall off of it! Scott Hoffman Black George Divoky, Patty Glick, When George Divoky began his study of Jessica Halofsky, Geoff Pollinators are essential to our seabirds in arctic Alaska in 1975, he had little Hammerson, Jeremy Littell, environment. Animal pollination, appreciation for how close his study site was to Mark Quinn, Karen Reagan which is mostly done by insects, is a number of important physical and biological necessary for nearly 75 percent of the Climate change is always on edges. Nor could he have predicted the drastic world’s flowering plants. This includes everyone’s mind, but what does changes that would occur at those edges over more than three decades as a result of a rapidly more than two-thirds of the world’s it mean for natural area management? changing climate. crop species, whose fruits and seeds This symposium will include some of the provide over 30 percent of the foods latest research and thinking about the Divoky conducts annual observations of the and beverages that we consume. Native potential impacts on natural systems seabirds breeding on Cooper Island in the Arctic pollinators are also essential for the we’ll be facing in the (near?) future. Ocean, 25 miles from Point Barrow, Alaska. In health of wild areas. Fruits and seeds Hear about the trends being tracked on the late 20th Century, he found decadal trends derived from insect pollination are a a local, regional and global scale. Learn in breeding phenology and populations as major part of the diet of approximately what makes a species more vulnerable snow and ice responded to slowly increasing 25 percent of birds, and of mammals or resistant to the changes of an altered temperatures. ranging from red-backed voles to grizzly climate. Discover the anticipated effect As the pace of climate change increased, bears. be on forested systems and the species ecosystem alterations became more rapid dependent on them. This session is Despite the recognized importance of and catastrophic. Arctic pack ice retreats at designed to allow for interaction with pollination services there is a growing an increasing rate. Summer storms are more participants, hearing from some of the body of evidence that suggests intense. Coastal erosion threatens the study best researchers and thinkers in the field pollinators are at risk. Causes of colony. Unprecedented changes in sea ice and and providing time for discussion of what declines are difficult to pinpoint, but sea surface temperatures are causing rapid the implications might be for the habitats loss of floral diversity and habitat due changes in the distribution and numbers of the and ecosystems we manage. to increasing urbanization, expansion seabirds’ prey, as well as their predators and of intensive agriculture, invasive plants, Patty Glick is a Senior Global Warming competitors. widespread use of pesticides, climate Specialist with the National Wildlife These modifications in distribution are causing change and disease and parasites have Federation, Seattle, WA. Jessica Halofsky the “arctic biodiversity paradox.” At a time of all had a negative impact on pollinator is a research ecologist at the Pacific concern for decreasing biodiversity in lower populations. Wildland Fire Sciences Lab of the U.S. latitudes, extreme northern ecosystems are Forest Service. Geoffrey Hammerson is This presentation provides a summary gaining diversity as subarctic species expand a research zoologist with NatureServe. of how land and wildlife managers northward. Arctic species, especially those Jeremy Littell, PhD., is a research scientist can account for the habitat needs of dependent on pack ice, become stranded south at the University of Washington. Mark pollinators and provides a series of of their normal ranges. Polar bears that were Quinn serves as a board member for recommendations for land managers on rare on Divoky’s study island in the past are the Washington Wildlife Federation, how tools such as fire, grazing, mowing, now annual visitors in late summer – and a real the state affiliate for the National and herbicides can be adjusted to limit threat to both seabirds and researchers! Wildlife Federation. Karen Reagan is a the impact on pollinators. PhD candidate and researcher at the George Divoky will share his observations and experiences of more than 30 years at Cooper Scott Hoffman Black is Executive University of Washington. Island. Together, we’ll examine how climate- Director of the Xerces Society, the driven modifications of “edges” might affect international organization dedicated to species and ecosystems throughout North protecting biological diversity through America. invertebrate conservation. He is an ecologist and entomologist. It’s 2009...do you know how close to the edge your natural areas are? 11 36th natural areas conference program Wednesday

George Divoky Workshop George Divoky has studied seabirds in Fostering a Passion for Nature Alaska since 1970 when, as a researcher 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ― at the Smithsonian Institution, he Heritage E participated in the Coast Guard’s survey of the Arctic Ocean adjacent to Prudhoe Bay, prior to the development of that Part One Part Two oilfield. Since then he has been involved Reclaiming Our Creating Cultural Connections in Alaskan seabird studies relating to a Special Places Between Communities and diverse group of conservation issues, the Natural World 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. including the Alaska Native Land Claims 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Settlement Act, oil and gas exploration Robert Michael Pyle of the outer continental shelf, the Exxon Eli Sterling Valdez oil spill and regional climate Everyone at this conference change. He has maintained a continuing can likely trace his or her Understanding that the study of a seabird colony at Cooper conservation ethic back to particular passionate advancement of Island, Alaska, since 1975. The study encounters in the out-of-doors. In natural lands protection is steeled is one of the longest longitudinal bird his influential bookLast Child in the by personal experiences in the studies in North America or the Arctic Woods, Richard Louv has pointed out out of doors, this session explores and its findings on the consequences of that such encounters are growing the perspective that unless entire snow and pack ice reductions provide rare in our culture. The Children communities likewise have a similar some of the best examples of the & Nature Network, Green Heart, social identity of personal connection biological response to climate change. and many “No Child Left Inside” to nature, natural lands protection will initiatives have arisen to counter this be compromised by competing values Divoky’s research was featured in a trend. In this interactive workshop, and public demands. The challenge, cover story in the New York Times Pyle will lead you back to your own then, is not just about bringing the Magazine entitled “George Divoky’s place of natural initiation. We’ll community to the remaining natural Planet”, in the Scientific American discuss the traits such special spots lands and protected areas. It is Frontiers program “Hot Times in Alaska” share, why and how their loss can likewise about bringing the lands into and on ABC Nightly News and Nightline. affect the culture, and how we as the cultural identity of the community. He was a guest on The Late Show conservationists can meet our own Beginning with a personal, with David Letterman. The website of goals for natural areas while resisting experiential exercise involving a pair Divoky’s nonprofit organization, Friends what Louv has called “Nature Deficit of stones (newly found or previously of Cooper Island (http://cooperisland. Disorder.” Bring pencil and paper, held in one’s possession...bring two org) provides background and regular an open mind, and your unguarded stones from lands you love!), we will updates on his research and outreach memory. focus on uniting cultural identity programs. with the natural environment, then Robert Michael Pyle, Ph.D. is a noted explore specific challenges offered by Divoky is a native of Cleveland, Ohio naturalist and biologist, author of workshop participants. and received his Bachelor’s and Master’s several books and founder of the degrees in zoology from Michigan State Xerces Society. Eli Sterling is the director of University. He obtained his doctorate in Earthbound Productions in Olympia, biology from the University of Alaska WA, a community non-profit where he now holds a position of Group Discussion organization advancing effective Research Associate at the Institute of with Pyle and Sterling environmental action and education Arctic Biology. He is one of the founders through creative cultural programs 4:30 p.m. to of the Pacific Seabird Group (PSG), an and civic partnerships. international society of professional 5:00 p.m. ornithologists and conservationists studying and protecting the marine birds of the Pacific Basin. He received PSG’s Special Achievement Award in 1998. Outside of the field season he resides in Seattle where he has an 18-year-old son. 12 36th natural areas conference program Wednesday

Workshop Symposium Using Social Media Ecological Integrity Measures for Natural Areas, as a Tool for Conservation Understanding the Planning and Real World Benefits and the Practical Application Implications 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Discovery A Discovery E Rex Crawford, Joe Rocchio, Ash Shepherd Mary Anne Thiesing, Janet Sutter, Ginna Correa There is a lot of excitement around the topic of social This session will explore the media these days. For these utility of using multi-scale tools to be effective you must assessments of ecological integrity to understand their benefits as well inform conservation and management as their practical implications. This objectives. Presentations will provide a session will look at the definition variety of examples of using ecological and context for what social media integrity measures as a basis for is, explore how social media can informing management, restoration, be used to support your offline and conservation of upland and conservation activities and consider wetland ecological systems. A panel what’s needed to make informed discussion will follow the presentations. decisions about using social media The goal of this symposium is to share for your organization. and explore ideas of how natural area managers and scientists could more Ash Shepherd is a technology effectively and efficiently set priorities consultant with TACS &N Power for conservation, benchmarks for Oregon in Portland, OR. restoration monitoring, and assessing management success using measures of ecological integrity. Rex Crawford, PhD and Joe Rocchio are Keith ecologists with the Washington Natural Heritage Program. Mary Anne Thiesing, PhD. is a senior wetlands ecologist Lazelle’s work with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Seattle, Washington. Janet is among the Sutter and Ginna Correa are with the Washington Department of Fish and most original and Wildlife. artistic nature photography in the country.”

Gordon Todd Keith Lazelle’s nature Photo?

“Hoh River, Reflected Light” Detail © Keith lazelle

Keith Lazelle Highlight Native Washingtonian Keith Lazelle was Annual Banquet, raised in the Olympia area. He studied Asian Awards Ceremony and Auction aesthetics and culture at Linfield College in Oregon, and Alaska Airlines Magazine Heritage Ballroom | 5:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. 5:30 to 10:00 p.m. noted this influence: “Spare, contemplative Join us for a casual reception and the silent auction at 5:30 p.m. images dominate much of Keith Lazelle’s You’ll find a complimentary drink ticket in your name tag holder. Following work, inviting further contemplation of the dinner, which begins at 6:30 p.m., we’ll honor this year’s winners of the Carl N. natural world.” Lazelle and his wife and Becker Stewardship Award and the George B. Fell Award. Photographer Keith agent, Jane Hall, live on Dabob Bay on the Lazelle will share his amazing work, and then the live auction will begin. Olympic Peninsula in a landscape recently designated for future acquisition as a state Keith Lazelle natural area. His clients include The Hoh In 2007, Keith Lazelle was given what he terms a “dream assignment” by River Trust, The Audubon Society, Alaska the Hoh River Trust. He was hired to photograph 60 miles of the Hoh River on Airlines Magazine, Coldwater Creek, Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, during four seasons, from its headwaters on Eddie Bauer, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Mount Olympus to the Pacific Ocean. The result is a beautiful book, Fast Moving Center, Seattle Opera and The Nature Water, and a two-year traveling exhibit sponsored by the University of Conservancy. Client Gordon Todd noted Washington’s Burke Museum. Keith will present “the photographer’s story” “Keith Lazelle’s work is among the most behind Fast Moving Water while viewing one of the last virtually intact rivers original and artistic nature photography in in the contiguous United States. the country.” 14 36th natural areas conference program Thursday Thursday Field-Trips

Poster Session and Reception Mid-Conference Field Trips 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ― Look for your field trip ticket in your name tag holder showing Heritage C, D your pre-registered field trip. If you have questions regarding your scheduled trip, visit the registration table from 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday Join your colleagues to meet through 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday. No changes can be made after poster authors while enjoying 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Note that some initially advertised field trips light snacks and refreshments from were cancelled. the cash bar. Box lunches are available from 7:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. in See Presentations details the Heritage Ballroom. Please pick up a lunch and a grab ‘n go on next page. breakfast item on your way to your field trip. Vehicles will be parked at the main conference center entrance. NAEPPC Forum Vehicles will depart promptly 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at their announced Birch Room (2nd Floor) times. The National Association of Exotic Pest Plant Councils (NAEPPC) forum is an informal opportunity for Monday, September 14 Departure Return NAEPPC members to share their ideas and accomplishments. Individuals are FT01 East Fork Lewis River Greenway 9:00 a.m. 2:30 p.m. encouraged to present an overview of their chapter’s activities in short (3-5 FT03 Chehalis River Surge Plain NAP 8:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. minute) presentations. FT04 Puget Sound Estuaries 8:30 a.m. 5:00 p.m.

Living on the Edge Cinema FT05 South Puget Sound Prairies 8:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m.

9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. ― FT06 Table Mountain 8:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Discovery D FT08 Wind River Canopy Crane 8:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m. See the flier in your conference packet for the week’s schedule of FT09 Mount St. Helens 8:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. short film screenings. FT011 Beacon Rock State Park 9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.

Natural Areas Jam Session FT013 Columbia River Gorge Oak 9:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. to Midnight ― Restoration Discovery A― FT014 Lower Columbia Salmon 8:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. (aka B-Natural Bistro) Restoration Natural areas and music just plain FT015 Ridgefield National Wildlife 9:00 a.m. go together. We write songs that 3:00 p.m. Refuge pay tribute to special places, that marvel at the wonder of it all, laude the riches FT018 Camassia Natural Area (Oregon) 9:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m. of bountiful regions, or lament nature’s destruction. Bring your instrument or your voice and join the Natural Areas Jam. Swap music from past or present, and from natural places far and wide. Everyone is invited to this evening of musical fun! 15 36th natural areas conference program Poster Presentations

Vegetation of Ankenbrand Forest, Challenge Cost Share Funds Provide Mycorrhizal Community Wabash County, Illinois. Partners, Prosperity and Punch to the Structure: Implications for Wade Bloemer and Dane Goble National Natural Landmarks Program. Restoration and Invasion. Stephen T. Gibbons Wendy S. Phillips Wetland Phalaris arundinacea Abundance as a Function of Watershed The Use of the Historical Record and A Study of Elaeagans Soil and Land Cover Attributes. Graphical Information Systems to umbellata Dispersal Based on the Nina Borchowiec Generate a Suitability Map for Prairie Ages and Relative Locations of Restoration in Mississippi. Individuals in a Stand. Assessing Prairie Management for Michael Tobit Gray Mame Redwood George Washington Carver National Monument: Control of Invasive Species Eight Prohibited Invasive The Use of Parasites as Indicators of and Indicator Species on Restored Exotic Plants in Reston, Va. Biodiversity in Selected Lakes of Prairie Units. Patricia Greenberg the Inland Northwest. Michael P. Burfield John Shea Wetland Creation in The Out With The Old, In With The New: Northern Indian River Lagoon: A A Plant Phenology Monitoring Gaining Accurate Population Response to Sea Level Rise Associated Map: A Journey Through the Assesments for A Colorado Endemic, with Global Climate Change. USA-National Phenology Database. Penstemon Harringtonii Penland. Todd Jones Kathryn Thomas Carol Dawson A Method for Assessing Landscape Scale Conservation in Germination Studies to Examine the the Ecological Condition of Army Washington, Land Acquistion and Seed Ecology of Lupinus lepidus var. Lands Using a Floristic Quality Index. Conservation Under the ESA. lepidus, Lupinus polyphyllus and Bruce Macallister Ted Thomas Lupinus albicaulis (Fabaceae). Carl W. Elliott Improving Science Literacy Learning On The Edge: Involving Through Visual Communications. Researchers in Sharing Research A Microhabitat Analysis of Japanese Mary McFadzen Conducted in Natural Areas. Hops (Humulus japonicus) and Lucy Tyrrell Japanese Stiltgrass (Microstegium Evaluation of Mist Blower vimenium) in a Riparian Ecosystem Application of Glyphosate in the An Occupancy and Acid Along Hutchins Creek in Union Treatment of Lonicera Spp. in a Precipitation Impact Study of County, Illinois. Non-Sensitive Natural Area. Some Endemic Plants of Athabasca Derek Evans Radonna Mckinney and Kimberly Sand Dunes Provincial Park, Elsenbroek Saskatchewan, Canada. Long Term Treatment Effects of Robert A. Wright Mechanical and Prescribed Fire Effects of Mowing, Chopping, Treatments Following Clearcutting of and Fire on Restoration of Overgrown Jack Pine (Pinus banksiana) on Florida Scrub Vegetation. Herbaceous Plants and Regeneration. Eric S. Menges Michelle Latsch Freeman Establishing a Shorebird Plant Community Shifts in Active Dune Conservation Working Group Areas Invaded by Spotted Knapweed in The Tennessee River Valley: (Centaurea maculosa) In Pictured Rocks A Project Evaluation. National Lakeshore. Jason M. Mitchell Michelle Latsch Freeman RNA Inventory and Ecologocial Representativeness: The Southwestern Region Process for Determining Need for Additional RNAs. Rosemary L. Pendleton Species & Community Community Involvement Conservation Conservation and Education at Landscape Level

Discovery D Heritage E Discovery A

Friday Concurrent Sessions

Time Session / Subject Session / Subject Session / Subject

8:30 Plenary Session with Speaker

10:00 Mid-Morning Break

Late Workshop Workshop Landscape-Level Tools Morning All Things Considered: The Green Seattle Partnership: at Work Conservation Action Planning A Success Story in Urban Forest 10:30 Kara Nelson Restoration and Sustainability Application of New Texas Landcover Data for Mark Mead Conservation Planning. Lee F. Elliott

11:00 Mitigation Banking: A Potential Tool to Restore & Sustain Priority Habitats. Dana Field

11:30 Identifying Aquatic Riverine Conservation Opportunity Areas. Gust M. Annis

12:00 NAA Annual Membership Meeting & Luncheon

Early Open Special Session Workshop Aftern. LandScope America/LandScope Cooperative Conservation: Washington: Sharing Priorities, Developing Effective Networks 2:00 Building Partnerships of Conservation Partners John Gamon Hannah Anderson

2:30

3:00 Mid-Afternoon Break

Late Open Open Workshop Aftern. Cooperative Conservation: Developing Effective Networks 3:30 of Conservation Partners (continued) Hannah Anderson 4:00

4:30

5:00 Conference Ends Habitat and Ecosystem Current Research, Land Mgmt. Invasive Species Restoration & Program Development (Sponsored by Naeppc)

Discovery B Discovery E Discovery C

Session / Subject Session / Subject Session / Subject

Plenary Session with Speaker

Mid-Morning Break

Workshop State Programs Special Session Partnerships & Working Seeds of Success Performance Measures: for Solutions Creating Restoration Solutions through How To Establish Them And Manage a National Native Seed Collection Program with Performance In Mind Washington Invasive Species Mary Byrne Pete Colverson Council Puget Sound Project. Wendy Brown

Developing Herbicide-Based Strategies to Manage Grasslands While Minimizing Effects on Non-Target Species—An Open Discussion. Cheryl Schultz

NAA Annual Membership Meeting & Luncheon

Workshop Workshop Workshop Seeds of Success Interagency Strategy Aquatic Invasives (continued) Field Work for the Pacific Northwest Natural Cort Anderson, Mary Byrne Areas Network John Woods, Todd Wilson Steve Wells

Mid-Afternoon Break

Workshop Open Workshop Seeds of Success Aquatic Invasives (continued) (continued) Field Work Cort Anderson, Mary Byrne John Woods, Steve Wells

Session Ends 18 36th natural areas conference program Highlight

Plenary Friday Session

Peggy Olwell Outing Heritage Ballroom Join Us for a Friday Morning 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Peggy Olwell is the Plant Interpretive Walk! Conservation Program Manager for Native Plant Materials the Bureau of Land Management 7:15 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. ― Development Program: in Washington, DC. Peggy has Gather in the Exhibit Area Meeting Native Plant Material worked on endangered species If you missed it on the Needs for Restoring Native issues for more than 20 years. Prior February 2009 cover of Plant Communities to BLM, Peggy was the Endangered Landscape Architecture Magazine, Species Program Manager for the here’s your chance to experience the Peggy Olwell National Park Service where she was instrumental in developing extraordinary new land bridge just Drought, increased wildfires, the Plant Conservation Alliance, a a short walk from the Vancouver invasive species and species partnership of 15 federal agencies Hilton. This pedestrian bridge redistribution are just a few of the and over 275 state and private designed by Jone & Jones is the complex issues resulting from climate organizations implementing a largest element of the Confluence change that land managing agencies are national plant conservation strategy, Project inspired by artist Maya facing. The future of managing native which addresses issues such as Lin. The sinuous, swirling, plant- plant communities across the nation medicinal plants, invasive alien laden bridge spans a highway and will require all of us to work together plants, restoration, and research and connects historic Fort Vancouver in meeting common conservation goals information sharing. Currently, she is with the Columbia River Waterfront, for native plant communities. The U.S. chair of the PCA Federal Native Plant while at the same time connecting Native Plant Materials Development Committee. the community’s natural and cultural Program is working with over 500 past to its present and future. partners who are collecting, researching Prior to NPS, Peggy was the We’ll gather at 7:15 am and begin and storing seeds in anticipation of the Conservation Program Manager for our brisk walk to the land bridge need to sustain healthy native plant the Center for Plant Conservation at 7:20, returning by 8:20, just communities in light of climate change. where she developed policy and prior to the plenary session. Our Congress directed the Bureau of Land guidance for the National Collection host is Kelly Punteney, member Management to develop this program of Endangered Plants. Peggy also of the Vancouver-Clark Parks and to ensure that a diversity of species worked as the Regional Botanist Recreation Advisory Commission and a sufficient quantity of genetically with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife and former Vancouver Waterfront appropriate seed is available for Service’s Southwest Regional Office Development Manager. restoration and rehabilitation. of Endangered Species where she developed and implemented recovery plans and Endangered Species Act listing for many of the endangered plants of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Peggy co-edited with Don Falk and Connie Millar a 1996 publication by Island Press entitled, Restoring Diversity: Strategies for Reintroduction of Endangered Plants. She is chair of the North American Plant Specialist Group for IUCN. Peggy received her B.S. in Botany from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her M.S. in Biology from Southern Methodist University. 19 36th natural areas conference program Friday

Workshop Workshop Workshop ― The Green Seattle All Things Considered: Seeds of Success: Creating Partnership—A Success Story in Conservation Action Planning Restoration Solutions through a Urban Forest Restoration and National Native Seed Collection 10:30 a.m. to Noon Sustainability Program Discovery D 10:30 a.m. to Noon 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ― Kara Nelson Heritage E Discovery B and field work Over the past 15 years, The Nature Mark Mead Conservancy has developed Mary K. Byrne The Green Seattle Partnership an integrated process for planning, Climate change means that is a citizen-driven program that implementing, and measuring conservation coordinated native seed banking was established in 2005 to battle the success for its conservation projects. This efforts are going to become increasingly declined tree health and invasive species process is called the “Conservation Action important for maintaining and restoring found in over 70 percent of Seattle’s Planning (CAP)” process. resilient vegetation communities that 2,500 acres of forested parklands. In The CAP process guides project teams to provide the foundation for wildlife habitat, the face of the 2009 economic crisis, identify effective conservation strategies. and that are ultimately essential to the the Green Seattle Partnership (GSP) is It provides an objective, consistent and ecological services that humans depend on. on track to add 100 “new” acres to transparent accounting of conservation Wildland seed collection programs, such 300 acres already in forest restoration, actions and the intended and actual as Seeds of Success (SOS), are connecting maintaining an annual budget of $2.3 outcomes of conservation projects. It enables organizations around the country to collect million. This workshop provides a proven project staff to responsively adapt their and preserve plant diversity before it is model, the Urban Forest Sustainability actions to improve strategy effectiveness and lost. This work is creating a vital seed bank Model, for protecting and restoring achieve greater conservation impact. for native plant materials development, urban forests by simultaneously research, and habitat restoration that your addressing three essential elements: Kara Nelson is a conservation planner with organization can contribute to and benefit developing and retaining community the Washington Field Office of The Nature from. partnerships, creating technologies and Conservancy in Seattle, Washington. best management practices that inform In need of native plants for your restoration projects? Concerned about the impacts restoration efforts, and the development State Natural Areas of climate change on the habitats you of sustainable long-term financial and Programs Special Session manage? If so, please join us for a one day management infrastructure. This talk will Performance Measures: How to workshop on Seeds of Success. Find out explore how leading-edge restoration Establish Them and Manage with the many ways you and your organization science, community activism and long- Performance in Mind term vision are translating into executive or agency can get involved and benefit support, increased budgets and the 10:30 a.m. to Noon ― from this program while working to integration of urban forestry issues Discovery E safeguard native plant genetic diversity for across the city. This program was built to the future. Pete Colverson be applicable in all cities and has already SOS is the national native seed been adopted by five municipalities in This session will focus on establishing collection program, under the umbrella the region. Performance Measures using the of the National Native Plant Materials Mark C. Mead is a certified arborist and principles of Logic Models and then Development Program, led by the the Senior Urban Forester for the Seattle establishing a Monitoring and Evaluation Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This Department of Parks and Recreation. System to keep track of progress. The session partnership includes many federal agencies will be run as a workshop with opportunities and hundreds of non-federal organization. for small group work and planning for your SOS’ mission is to collect wildland native own work place. There will be a focus on the seed for the development of genetically importance of clear, measurable objectives appropriate native plant materials for derived from a mission driven work effort landscape level restoration. that emphasizes simplicity and clarity. We can all learn a lot from Dilbert! The afternoon portion of this session is a field trip. Pete Colverson is a communication specialist with Pandion Systems in Gainseville Florida. Mary K. Byrne is the National Collection Curator for the Seeds of Success Program, Bureau of Land Management. 20 36th natural areas conference program Friday

Discussion NAA Annual Membership Workshop Developing Herbicide-Based Meeting and Lunch Interagency Strategy for Strategies to Manage Grasslands the Pacific Northwest Natural Noon to 1:45 p.m. ― while Minimizing Effects on Areas Network Heritage Ballroom Non-Target Species 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ― All NAA members are invited and 11:00 a.m. to Noon ― Discovery E encouraged to attend the Annual Discovery C Membership Meeting. If you confirmed Todd M. Wilson Cheryl B. Schultz this meeting when you registered, we will have a lunch ready for you. If not, then The Pacific Northwest Interagency Rapid spread of invasive plants poses please join us with a brown bag lunch. Natural Areas Committee has a significant challenge for managing The meeting agenda includes election of promoted the establishment and Oregon and Washington prairies, as board members and NAA bylaws changes management of natural areas in Oregon well as grasslands across North America. on membership levels and dues to be and Washington for more than 30 Managers are turning to herbicides as approved by the voting members. See the years. This growing collection of sites a promising tool to reduce challenging meeting notice in your conference packet is now unmatched in its diversity and invasive species—yet effects on non- for additional details. representation of both common and target species in the grasslands, especially unique ecosystems found throughout the insects, are poorly documented. Due to region. Visions, goals and actions have Special Session ― the immediacy of the need, managers been identified that can help transform Landscope America/Landscope often use a trial-and-error approach, with these natural areas into a resilient network Washington: Sharing Priorities, little communication with managers in that can meet a growing number of Building Partnerships nearby areas. There is a vital need for challenges including managing for communication across regional natural 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ― ecological processes over the long term, areas so that managers can learn from Heritage E responding appropriately to climate each other. change and invasive species, protecting John Gamon the ecological integrity of sites as human This discussion will have two parts. First, use increases, promoting research and we will discuss alternative herbicide LandScope America (www. educational activities, and communicating strategies to manage grasslands across landscope.org), a new online the importance of wildlands to a public North America and observations of non- resource for the land-protection that is growing apart from the natural target effects. Second, we will break up by community and the public, is a world. A natural areas network can play region to discuss specific strategies in the collaborative project of NatureServe, a pivotal role in developing regional and region and to facilitate discussion amongst National Geographic Society, and many global approaches to conservation that local scientists and managers. state and local partners. Its goal is to inspire and inform conservation action meet diverse human and ecological needs. Cheryl B. Schultz is an assistant professor across the United States. LandScope Todd M. Wilson is a wildlife biologist and at Washington State University Vancouver America can enhance partnerships at Research Natural Areas Coordinator with and is a member of Washington’s Natural all levels by helping organizations focus the Pacific Northwest Research Station, Heritage Advisory Council. conservation action around shared U.S. Forest Service, Portland, Oregon. priorities, learn about each other’s priorities and projects, and promote successes to the public. In addition, LandScope America provides excellent resources for natural resource managers, such as a state of the art map viewer with geotagged photos, videos, case studies and analyses and a platform for viewing and analyzing spatial data. The Washington Natural Heritage Program is one of five chosen nationally to help develop the pilot website. John Gamon is Program Manager of the Washington Natural Heritage Program. 21 36th natural areas conference program Friday

Workshop Workshop Enjoy Cooperative Conservation: Aquatic Invasives Developing Effective 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. your stay in Networks of Conservation Discovery C Partners Washington 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ― Cort Anderson, John Wood Discovery A and Steve Wells State and the Invasive aquatic species are a Hannah Anderson growing problem, nationally, and in Pacific Great emphasis has been placed the Pacific Northwest. In order to prevent on achieving results through or slow the spread of invasive species, Northwest cooperation and partnerships. detection and monitoring methods Nowhere is this more evident than that reliably identify and detect aquatic with those facing issues related to invasives need to be developed, and natural resources, such as recovery these methods need to be cost-effective of rare species and managing their and broadly available. This workshop will habitat. Natural systems do not review and critique current methodology adhere to human concepts of political for detection and identification of aquatic boundaries like county borders or invasive species, with special attention to agency jurisdictions. A paradigm shift molecular methods currently in use or in has occurred in which entities have development. DNA-based methods for recognized this truth and moved species identification and detection have from essentially working in isolation great utility, but there is also potential to working together. Many states for inappropriate use of this technology, have identified the need to cooperate and some confusion about how this in their Wildlife Action Plans; there technology should best be deployed. is even an executive order from the This workshop will explore the potential office of the President directing uses and limits of DNA-based detection federal agencies to cooperate. But methods, potential pitfalls, and develop how is cooperation attainted? This a summary document that will assist land 3-hour workshop will outline a simple managers and agency officials charged and useful framework for designing with managing aquatic invasives in making your program or project to achieve best use of this technology. results through cooperation. Specific Cort Anderson, PhD., is the research techniques for bringing people assistant professor and manager, together, finding common ground, UI Laboratory for Conservation and and affecting momentum will be Ecological Genetics, College of Natural presented. Framing your program Resources, University of Idaho. John around the cooperative model and Wood, PhD. is a researcher with Pisces using these basic tools, will enhance Molecular, LLC, Boulder, Colorado. Steve your ability to move your conservation Wells is a researcher at the Center for work forward. Lakes and Reservoirs, Portland State Hannah Anderson is the Rare Species University, Portland, OR. Project Manager of The Nature Conservancy’s South Sound Program Meeting in Olympia, Washington. Business Meeting of the National Association of Exotic Pest Plant Councils 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Oak Room (2nd. Floor) 22 36th natural areas conference program Notes About Us

The Natural Areas Association

The Natural Areas Association (NAA) has, for nearly 30 years, provided support and vital resources to individuals and agencies concerned with the protection and stewardship of natural areas. As defined by NAA’s founder, George B. Fell, natural areas are “areas of land which have scientific, educational and esthetic value by reason of distinctive natural features.” NAA provides natural areas “defenders” with the tools and information they need to be successful, whether they are natural areas managers, educators, program staff or volunteers. To support those who are committed to natural areas conservation, NAA: ◗ Publishes the Natural Areas Journal and the Natural Area News ◗ Hosts the annual Natural Areas Conference ◗ Develops special reports such as “The Status of State Natural Area Programs” ◗ Facilitates special programs and working groups such as the State and Federal Natural Conference Co-sponsors Area Programs Roundtables Benefactors ($10,000+) ◗ Provides education and outreach to the land Washington State Department trust community of Natural Resources ◗ Serves as a portal to natural areas Washington State Department of Ecology information and resources U.S. DOI Bureau of Land Management ◗ Founded in 1980, NAA is a 501(c)(3) Underwriters ($5,000 to $9,999) non-profit organization. USDA Forest Service U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration To become a member, donate or learn more about the Natural Areas Association, Sponsors ($2,500 to $4,999) visit www.naturalarea.org. Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office U.S. DOI National Park Service Washington Rare Plant Care and Conservation Program Supporters ($1,000 to $2,499) The Nature Conservancy of Washington Other Support Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission Northwest Service Academy Ecospatial Analysts, Inc. Printed in USA on 100% National Association of Exotic Pest Plant post-consumer recycled paper Councils