Utah EBIPM Field School

Park Valley, Utah

September 13-15, 2011

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(Registration Due August 19, 2011)

EBIPM is a fresh approach to managing invasive species using ecological principles and strategies to stop treating the symptoms and start repairing the underlying causes of invasive plant infestations. Applying EBIPM promotes a more complete understanding of sustainable weed management, a more efficient use of funds, and the solutions for reducing invasive plant infestations.

The EBIPM Field School is designed to provide you with all the necessary information to begin applying EBIPM in a 'learn-by-doing‘ in-the-field setting. This education format is geared to providing you a complete understanding of EBIPM to begin using the process when you return home.

You are invited to submit nominations to attend a 2-day training session on the Process for Assessing Proper Functioning Condition (PFC) of Riparian-Wetland Areas. This session is an activity of a west-wide effort entitled “Creeks and Communities: A Continuing Strategy for Accelerating Cooperative Riparian Restoration and Management.” The focus of this effort is to facilitate cooperation with all landowners on a watershed scale. Effective restoration and management must promote the establishment of common terms, definitions, and methods. This tool has proven useful in determining those opportunities where there is a high probability for positive change with a reasonable investment, while enhancing management and problem solving at the local level by the people most affected.

Emphasis is on bringing people with diverse backgrounds and values together and implementing the use of this assessment method as a key tool for a collaborative, landscape approach applied at the ground level. In order to accomplish this, the training is available to Federal, State, and local agencies, Tribes, industry and conservation interests, and others.

Riparian Proper Functioning Condition (PFC) Assessment Training

Salt Lake City , Utah

September 20-21, 2011

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