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The Conference will include submitted oral and poster presentations, as well as special sessions and symposia.  Click here to download detailed conference program.

Planned sessions include:

      MONDAY NOVEMBER 7th

There will be no scheduled biennial conference science presentations. However, a variety of meetings have been scheduled in conjunction with the conference.  

Establishing Ecological Networks on the Colorado Plateau: Organized by Neil Cobb.  The meeting will discuss the new arrangement of regional observatories and specifically Domain 13, which encompasses the Colorado Plateau and the Southern Rockies.

National Park Service All-taxa Biodiversity Inventory: Organized by Neil Cobb.  The purpose of the meeting is to further explore the establishment of a All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Program (ATBI) for National Park Service units on the Colorado Plateau.

NBII (National Biological Information Infrastructure) Southwest Information Node: Organized by Neil Cobb. The SWIN meeting will provide a overview of the function of SWIN, followed by a discussion of how SWIN can work with ongoing projects and how people can plan to collaborate with SWIN in the future.

Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CPCESU) Partners Social: Organized by Rod Parnell and Ron Hiebert. This evening social will provide an opportunity for CPCESU members to interact, and to with meet representatives of the five new partners to the CPCESU.  Note: This is open to invited members and partners of the CPCESU.

Restoration of Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems in Wilderness Areas and National Park Service Backcountry: How do we maximize both natural and untrameled (i.e., wilderness) conditions?: Organized by David Ostergren, this workshop is a forum for interagency discussion on the challenges and opportunities that wilderness provides in the context of restoring ecosystems.

      TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8th

      Ecology, Genetics, Management and Restoration of Riparian Habitats

           (Chair: Gery Allan)

      EcOSYSTEM RESPONSES TO FUELS MANAGEMENT TREATMENTS IN PONDEROSA PINE FORESTs

           (Chair: John Duff Bailey)

      FIRE RESTORATION AND TREATMENT (Chair: Matthew Johnson)

      HUMAN DIMENSIONS IN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: (Chair: Gary Deason)

      INTEGRATING SCIENCE WITH RESOURCE MANAGEMENT THROUGH COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES

        AND ADAPTIVE MODELING SYSTEMS  (Chairs: Neil Cobb and Tom Sisk)

      SOUTHWEST REGIONAL GAP ANALYSIS: The Colorado Plateau (Chair: Kathryn Thomas)

      WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 9th

      ANIMAL ECOLOGY  (Chair: Erika Nowak)

      CAVE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (Chair: J. Judson Wynne)

      CONSERVATION SCIENCE, POLICY, and PRACTICE  (Chair: Paul Beier)

           Note: Contributed papers are welcomed for this session.  

      DEMYSTIFYING MYCORRHIZAE: How managers can utilize current research in mycorrhizal ecology

           (Chair: Bala Chaudhary)

      ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS  (Chair: Matt Bowker)

      ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE CLIMATE VARIATION ON  

            SOUTHWESTERN FORESTS AND WOODLANDS (Chair: Neil Cobb)

      MODELING AND CLASSIFICATION  (Chair: Mark Miller)

      RESOURCE HISTORY AND ASSESSMENT  (Chair: Mark Miller)

      VEGETATION ECOLOGY  (Chair: Kathryn Thomas)

      THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10th

      ANIMAL ECOLOGY  (Chair: Eben Paxton)

      CAVE RESOURCE MANAGERS MEETING (Chair: J. Judson Wynne)

      CREATING SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIPS for RANGELAND CONSERVATION (Chair: Karan English)

      ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS and LONG-TERM RESEARCH ON THE COLORADO PLATEAU

           (Chair: Neil Cobb)

      FOSSIL CREEK: AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESTORE DIVERSE NATIVE FISHERY AND STUDY THE

           EFFECTS OF RETURN OF FULL FLOWS (Chair: Allen Haden)

      INVASIVE PLANT ECOLOGY   (Chair: Chris McGlone)

      STATUS OF THE COLORADO RIVER ECOSYSTEM  (Chair: Ted Melis)

A detailed program and schedule can be viewing and download here.

Biennial Conference Coordinator
Biennial Conference
Center for Sustainable Environments at NAU
P.O. Box 5765
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5765