2023 JHWS Agenda

Agenda

The symposium will begin at 8:30 am. Please arrive by 8:00 am to find a seat in the Theatre at the Center for the Arts.

Time	About	Location
8:30-8:45	Welcome and Introductions Peyton Curlee Griffin, Board President Richard Wallace, Board Member and Educator-in-Residence Ben Williamson, NRCC Executive Director	Theatre
8:45-9:00	Do we need a Grand Strategy for the GYE? Susan Clark, Co-Founder, Emeritus Board Member	Theatre
9:00-10:00	Morning Keynote Address – Preserving nature in Greater Yellowstone: The enduring quest to Conserve an iconic landscape Robert Keiter, Wallace Stegner Professor of Law, University of Utah	Theatre
10:00-10:15	Coffee Break	Lobby
10:15-11:10	Panel #1 – How can we overcome boundaries in the GYE? Douglas W. Smith, former Senior Wildlife Biologist at Yellowstone National Park Michael Whitfield, Research Associate, Teton County (ID) Commissioner and Founding President of Teton Regional Land Trust Moderator: Ben Williamson	Theatre
11:15-12:10	Panel #2: What would coexistence with large carnivores look like? Aaron Bott, Research Associate, PhD Candidate at Utah State University, Biologist at the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife Matt Barnes, Research Associate, Owner of Shining Horizons Land Management Chris Servheen, former Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Moderator: Susan Clark	Theatre
12:10-12:55	Lunch	Lobby
1:00-1:55	Panel #3: What does it mean to live responsibly in a landscape like the GYE? Katie Christiansen, Artist-in-Residence, Editor and Illustrator of The Artist’s Field Guide to Yellowstone Todd Wilkinson, Writer-in-Residence, Author of Ripple Effects: How To Save Yellowstone and America’s Most Iconic Wildlife Ecosystem Moderator: Richard Wallace	Theatre
2:00-4:00	Quick Talks (see below for information on the two concurrent sessions) Moderators: Aida Farag USGS, NRCC Research Associate and Ben Williamson, NRCC Executive Director	Theatre/ CWC Classroom
4:15 – 4:45	Craighead Conservation Award, Raynes Citizen Conservation Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, & Human-Wildlife Photography Contest Presentations	Theatre
5:00-7:00	Reception and Art Exhibits One Nature Forest, Katie Shepherd Christiansen Preview of 2024 Exhibit Wetlands and Amphibians of Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park, Chuck Peterson	Lobby
7:00-8:30	Evening Keynote Address – Effective Conservation in Times of Crisis: Lessons from Several Continents Ignacio Jiménez, , International Conservationist at Nuestros Espacios Protegidos/ EUROPARC-Spain, and Author of Effective Conservation: Parks, Rewilding, and Local Development	Theatre

Quick Talk Concurrent Sessions Information

Session 1: CWC Classroom	Session 2: Center Theater
For Everything There Was a Season: Spring Trevor Bloom The Nature Conservancy (Partner: Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative)	The American West in the Age of Limits: Cross-sectoral Collaboration for Conservation Planning Robert Frodeman, Evelyn Brister, Luther Propst University of Turku, Finland, Rochester Inst. of Tech.,Teton Co. Commission
The Beetles Are Back: Redefining Return Intervals for Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemics in the GYE Nancy Bockino, Erin Hooten, Erin Shanahan, Maria Newcomb, Jesse Logan (Sam Thackeray and Kristin Legg presenting) Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, USFS, NPS (Partners Grand Teton National Park, Grand Teton National Park Foundation, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, American Forests)	Wildlife for All Seeks Wildlife Management Reform in Wyoming Kristin Combs, Kevin Bixby, Michelle Lute Wyoming Wildlife Advocates, JH Bear Solutions, Wildlife for All
Sagebrush and Whitebark Pine Habitat Restoration in Grand Teton National Park Laura Jones Grand Teton National Park	Sustaining Working and Connected Lands of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Shaleas Harrison Western Landowners Alliance
Wildlife Research from Carcass: The Afterlives of Animal Bodies Kristin Hugo Independent Science Journalist, MIT Press	Animal, Vegetable, AND Mineral; A Pathway to Systems Thinking For the GYE Reade Dornan, Sandy Shuptrine (Reviewers and Collaborators: Margie Lynch, Victoria Parker, Jennifer Evans, Kenna Sarae) (Sandy Shuptrine presenting) Jackson Hole Climate Action Collective
A New Research Program to Address Scientific Knowledge Gaps About Zoonotic Tick-borne diseases Affecting Humans and Animals in Wyoming Mikenna Smith, Kelsey Mitchell Teton County Weed & Pest District	The Mountain Neighbor Handbook Liz Collins Teton Conservation District (Partners Jackson Hole Land Trust, Teton County, Town of Jackson)
What We Learn from Raptor Rehabilitation Meghan Warren Teton Raptor Center	Teton County Human-Wildlife Coexistence Monitoring Report 2022-23 Kevin Krasnow, Grant Gallaher, Chelsea Carson Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, The Nature Conservancy
Novel Methods to Expand the Power of Camera Traps to Less Identifiable Species Peter Alexander Craighead Beringia South	Teton County Wildlife Crossings: Design Plans for Future Projects Julia Kintsch, Chris Colligan, Mila Dunbar-Irwin ECO-Resolutions, Teton County, Jorgenson Engineering, EcoConnect Consulting
Prioritizing Fish Passage Barriers on the North Zone of the Bridger Teton National Forest Sawyer Finley Trout Unlimited (Partners Bridger-Teton National Forest, Coombs Outdoors)	Teton County Wildlife Feeding and Bear Resistant Standards: An Update on Compliance Chris Colligan, Tanya Anderson, Chris Neubecker, Kole Stewart Teton County, Town of Jackson, Bear Wise Jackson Hole
From Science to Conservation Action: An Example Using Mule Deer Justin Schwabedissen, Sarah Dewey, Rob Cavallaro, Josh Rydalch, Tamara Sperber Grand Teton National Park (Partners Teton Regional Land Trust, Idaho Dept of Fish and Game)	Wolves, Rewilding, and Fear: Lessons from Evolutionary History for Coexisting with Predators Today Joanna E. Lambert University of Colorado – Boulder
Using Science and Partnerships to Conserve Key Habitats and Ecological Functions in the Teton River Canyon System Tamara Sperber, Rob Cavallaro Teton Regional Land Trust, Idaho Dept of Fish and Game	Five-Toed Wolf: The Use of Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Co-Existence Jeff Reed Wild Livelihoods, Reedfly Farm, Upper Yellowstone Watershed Group
Transformative Conservation and Collaboration: Teton Creek Corridor Collaborative’s Approach to Environmental Impact in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Amy King LegacyWorks Group (Partners Teton Regional Land Trust, Valley Advocates for Responsible Development, Friends of the Teton River, Teton Valley Trails and Pathways)	Wetlands and Amphibians of Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park Charles Peterson (Andrew Ray & Ben LaFrance Presenting) Idaho State University, Greater Yellowstone Network (NPS) Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative
Large Carnivore Fund’s Approach for Protecting Large Carnivore Species in Montana, Specifically Our Work With the State Wildlife Agency Helena Edelson Large Carnivore Fund

Session 1: CWC Classroom

Session 2: Center Theater

For Everything There Was a Season: Spring

Trevor Bloom

The Nature Conservancy (Partner: Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative)

The American West in the Age of Limits: Cross-sectoral Collaboration for Conservation Planning

Robert Frodeman, Evelyn Brister, Luther Propst

University of Turku, Finland, Rochester Inst. of Tech.,Teton Co. Commission

The Beetles Are Back: Redefining Return Intervals for Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemics in the GYE

Nancy Bockino, Erin Hooten, Erin Shanahan, Maria Newcomb, Jesse Logan (Sam Thackeray and Kristin Legg presenting)

Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, USFS, NPS (Partners Grand Teton National Park, Grand Teton National Park Foundation, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, American Forests)

Wildlife for All Seeks Wildlife Management Reform in Wyoming

Kristin Combs, Kevin Bixby, Michelle Lute

Wyoming Wildlife Advocates, JH Bear Solutions, Wildlife for All

Sagebrush and Whitebark Pine Habitat Restoration in Grand Teton National Park

Laura Jones

Grand Teton National Park

Sustaining Working and Connected Lands of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Shaleas Harrison

Western Landowners Alliance

Wildlife Research from Carcass: The Afterlives of Animal Bodies

Kristin Hugo

Independent Science Journalist, MIT Press

Animal, Vegetable, AND Mineral; A Pathway to Systems Thinking For the GYE

Reade Dornan, Sandy Shuptrine (Reviewers and Collaborators: Margie Lynch, Victoria Parker, Jennifer Evans, Kenna Sarae) (Sandy Shuptrine presenting)

Jackson Hole Climate Action Collective

A New Research Program to Address Scientific Knowledge Gaps About Zoonotic Tick-borne diseases Affecting Humans and Animals in Wyoming

Mikenna Smith, Kelsey Mitchell

Teton County Weed & Pest District

The Mountain Neighbor Handbook

Liz Collins

Teton Conservation District (Partners Jackson Hole Land Trust, Teton County, Town of Jackson)

What We Learn from Raptor Rehabilitation

Meghan Warren

Teton Raptor Center

Teton County Human-Wildlife Coexistence Monitoring Report 2022-23

Kevin Krasnow, Grant Gallaher, Chelsea Carson

Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, The Nature Conservancy

Novel Methods to Expand the Power of Camera Traps to Less Identifiable Species

Peter Alexander

Craighead Beringia South

Teton County Wildlife Crossings: Design Plans for Future Projects

Julia Kintsch, Chris Colligan, Mila Dunbar-Irwin

ECO-Resolutions, Teton County, Jorgenson Engineering, EcoConnect Consulting

Prioritizing Fish Passage Barriers on the North Zone of the Bridger Teton National Forest

Sawyer Finley

Trout Unlimited (Partners Bridger-Teton National Forest, Coombs Outdoors)

Teton County Wildlife Feeding and Bear Resistant Standards: An Update on Compliance

Chris Colligan, Tanya Anderson, Chris Neubecker, Kole Stewart

Teton County, Town of Jackson, Bear Wise Jackson Hole

From Science to Conservation Action: An Example Using Mule Deer

Justin Schwabedissen, Sarah Dewey, Rob Cavallaro, Josh Rydalch, Tamara Sperber

Grand Teton National Park (Partners Teton Regional Land Trust, Idaho Dept of Fish and Game)

Wolves, Rewilding, and Fear: Lessons from Evolutionary History for Coexisting with Predators Today

Joanna E. Lambert

University of Colorado – Boulder

Using Science and Partnerships to Conserve Key Habitats and Ecological Functions in the Teton River Canyon System

Tamara Sperber, Rob Cavallaro

Teton Regional Land Trust, Idaho Dept of Fish and Game

Five-Toed Wolf: The Use of Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Co-Existence

Jeff Reed

Wild Livelihoods, Reedfly Farm, Upper Yellowstone Watershed Group

Transformative Conservation and Collaboration: Teton Creek Corridor

Collaborative’s Approach to Environmental Impact in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Amy King

LegacyWorks Group (Partners Teton Regional Land Trust, Valley Advocates for Responsible Development, Friends of the Teton River, Teton Valley Trails and Pathways)

Wetlands and Amphibians of Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park

Charles Peterson (Andrew Ray & Ben LaFrance Presenting)

Idaho State University, Greater Yellowstone Network (NPS) Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative

Large Carnivore Fund’s Approach for Protecting Large Carnivore Species in Montana, Specifically Our Work With the State Wildlife Agency

Helena Edelson

Large Carnivore Fund