Arizona / New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Experts Conservation Workshop DRAFT AGENDA Day 1: Tuesday, April 8, 1997 9:00 Welcome, Introductions, and Opening Remarks Dennis Donald 9:15 Overview of TNC Ecoregional Planning Gary Bell 9:30 Arizona/ New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Plan Gary Bell 9:45 Function and Goals of the Experts Workshop Gary Bell 10:00 Workshop Instructions: Materials Available Site Selection Criteria Data Gaps Terminology 10:45 Break 11:00 Concurrent Experts Panel Sessions: 1. Communities & Landscapes Gary Bell 2. Birds Laura McCarthy 3. Mammals Peter Warren 4. Herptiles Dave Gori 5. Fish, Aquatic invertebrates, & aquatic habitats Jeff Baumgartner 6. Invertebrates Patrick McCarthy 7. Rare Plants John Humke 12:30 Lunch (provided) 1:30 Reconvene Morning Experts Panels 2:30 Break 2:45 Continue Concurrent Experts Panel Sessions: 4:15 Break 4:30 Continue Experts Panels 5:30 Summary Session and Outline of Tomorrow's Work (Full session) 6:30 Dinner on your own Day 2: Wednesday, April 9, 1997 8:30 Introduction to the Day's Sessions: 9:00 Presentation of the Coarse Filter 9: 45 Regional Breakout Groups: 1. Merging Data and Creating Sites 10:30 Break 10:45 Regional Breakout Groups: 2. Filling In the Biodiversity Gaps 12:00 Lunch (provided) 1:00 Regional Breakout Groups: 3. Data Needs and Identification 3:00 Break 3:45 Regional Breakout Groups: 4. Management Needs and Other Issues 5:00 Workshop Wrap-up (full session) 6:00 Travel Home • ▪ ARIZONA / NEW MEXICO MOUNTAINS ECOREGION EXPERTS CONSERVATION WORKSHOP APRIL 8-9, 1997 INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS Workshop Location: Howard Johnson's Hotel, 15 Hotel Circle (at Interstate 40 and Eubank, exit 165), about 6 miles east of Interstate 25), Albuquerque, NM. The Hotel has shuttle for easy access to and from Albuquerque International Airport. We have negotiated a block of deluxe rooms at the Howard Johnson's reserved for out-of-town participants. Rates for these room, which are $49 per night, single occupancy, and $53 per night double occupancy. Participants will need to call the hotel to book their own rooms. The hotel phone number is (505) 296-4852 or (800) 877-4852. 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Most Mesa Airline fares are around $90 one way, but they do have advanced fares from Silver City as low as $99 round-trip. And 14-day advanced fares from Flagstaff to Albuquerque on America West is about $228. From Phoenix: America West 800 235-9292 Southwest 800 435-9792 Delta 800 221-1212 Continental 800 523-3273 From Tucson America West 800 235-9292 Delta 800 221-1212 Continental 800 523-3273 From Silver City, Las Cruces, or Colorado Springs: Mesa 800 637-2247 From Flagstaff: America West 800 235-9292 From El Paso: Delta 800 221-1212 Southwest 800 435-9792 Frontier 800 432-1359 THE WORKSHOP: GOALS AND PROCESS Conservation Goal The Nature Conservancy's overall conservation goal is the long-term survival of all viable native species and natural community types. We are approaching this goal by setting conservation priorities ecoregion by ecoregion to ensure that the full suite of biological diversity in each ecoregion is adequately addressed. To protect the full range of biodiversity within each ecoregion we are selecting a "portfolio" of sites which collectively contain the habitat and species diversity, and have the spatial configuration and ecological integrity, to ensure long-term survival if they are managed for ecological values. We are focusing on all viable native natural community (or habitat) types and all viable vulnerable native species within each ecoregion, searching for a suite of sites that conserves all of these elements. However, lacking sufficient data to identify all natural communities and all vulnerable species, we must rely, to some extent, on a coarse filter of representative species or natural communities as a surrogate for what we don't know. Sites in the portfolio will be selected using the best available information with the preference given to sites that capture the greatest diversity and hold the greatest promise for long-term sustainability. Workshop Goal The primary goal of the Experts Workshop is to develop a list of sites in the Arizona / New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion that, if managed for conservation values, will protect the biodiversity of the ecoregion. The workshop will be conducted over the course of two days with all work to be completed by the end of the second day. Workshop Process After convening the workshop on Tuesday and reviewing the goals and process, participants will break out into seven panels organized around taxonomic ancUor ecological areas of expertise; birds; mammals; herptiles; fish, aquatic invertebrates, and aquatic habitats; terrestrial invertebrates; plants; and natural communities and landscape processes. Each panel will have a facilitator and a recorder. The facilitator's role is to keep the participants focused on the goals while encouraging creativity and lively discussion. The recorders will take notes on the panel discussions, site selection rationale, and issues that relate to taxa, data gaps, and conservation priorities. Each panel will develop its own portfolio of sites with high biodiversity values for their conservation targets (e.g. birds or natural communities). The natural community and landscape processes group will also work to develop a "coarse filter" which can be applied to all the sites after the workshop in order to compare diverse sites and achieve a conservation portfolio that is economical as well as a biologically robust.