Then-Refuge System Chief Greg Siekaniec holds the iPad on which Service
Director Dan Ashe signed the Conserving the Future implementation charter
moments earlier. The charter is available at http://AmericasWildlife.org
vision/. (Nick Zukauskas/USFWS)
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The charters have been signed
and individuals have been named
for two of three Conserving
the Future implementation teams that
Director Dan Ashe mandated to be
completed by the end of August.
The charter of the strategic habitat
growth team is to develop a plan, policies
and support tools to guide strategic
growth of the National Wildlife Refuge
System in a landscape context. Its
members are: Jeff Rupert, co-chair,
chief of Division of Natural Resources
and Conservation Planning, Washington
office; Eric Alvarez, co-chair chief of
Division of Realty, Washington office;
Rick Schultz, co-chair, regional refuge
chief, Midwest Region; Jonathan
Bloomfield, realty specialist, Pacific
Region; Kelly McDowell, project leader,
Southwest Region; Stacy Salvevold,
private lands biologist, Midwest Region;
James Burnett, project leader, Southeast
Region; Joseph McCauley, regional realty
chief, Northeast Region; Will Meeks,
project leader, Mountain-Prairie Region;
Rob Campellone, Branch of Conservation
Planning, Washington office; Bill Uihlein,
assistant regional director for science,
Southeast Region.
The charter of the urban wildlife refuge
initiative team is to develop standards
and a framework
for an urban wildlife
refuge program.
Its members are:
Cynthia Martinez,
co-chair, chief of
Division of Visitor
Services and
Communication,
Washington
office; Scott
Kahan, co-chair,
regional refuge
chief, Northeast
Region; Kim
Strassburg, visitor
services manager,
Pacific Region; Ken
Garrahan, regional
visitor services chief,
Southwest Region; Charlie Blair, project
leader, Midwest Region; Sharon Fuller,
regional outreach specialist, Southeast
Region; Sharon Marino, project leader,
Northeast Region; Lorrie Beck, visitor
services specialist, Mountain-Prairie
Region; Kenton Moos, project leader,
Alaska Region; Chantel Jimenez,
environmental education specialist,
Pacific Southwest Region; Mendel
Stewart, project leader, Pacific Southwest
Region; Steve Suder, Refuge System
transportation coordinator, Washington
office; Brad Bortner, chief of Division of
Migratory Birds and Habitat Programs,
Washington office.
As Refuge Update went to press in late
August, the third implementation team
specified by Ashe, the Leadership
Development Council, was to be named
soon. Six other implementation teams
were being formed in September to
address the vision’s remaining
recommendations.
