Dave,
Can you send me the official questionnaire as an attachment so I can send on to
the organizations I suggested?
Thanks,
Clair
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 14:48:12 -0700, David Weedman <dweedman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Colleagues,
For nearly two decades, instream flow conservation principles were provided
under the direction of the federal Cooperative Instream Flow Service Group
(CIFSG) in Fort Collins, Colorado. Since that group ceased to exist in 2001, no
substitute centralized source of training and support services for instream
flow and water level conservation studies has been established. Many who
received training by the CIFSG have subsequently retired or moved to other
jobs. As a result this interdisciplinary water conservation field has been
losing a central focus, potentially leading to diminished credibility with
quantifying the effects of water uses and management and research on effective
conservation of instream flow and water levels on fish, wildlife, and habitat.
These concerns are being addressed by the Instream Flow Council and American
Fisheries Society through a multi-state conservation grant project that will
determine the need for, feasibility of, and path towards establishing a new
instream flow and water level conservation training center (National Center).
As the first step of this project a steering committee was formed representing
water stakeholder interests (state/provincial governments, federal/national
governments, academic, and private sector) to assess the needs and support for
a new National Center whose mission is to synthesize emerging research and to
develop and provide uniform interdisciplinary training in support of all
aspects of ecological flow and water level conservation.
This questionnaire attempts to identify interest in and level of support for
such a National Center. The survey should take approximately 10 minutes to
complete. Below is a link to contribute to the survey. It will be open and
active until Friday, August 6, 2021. Within the survey you'll note a choice to
self-identify in one of 4 different categories, agency, business, organization,
or individual. You may fall into more than one of those categories. If so, you
are welcome to repeat the survey from each of those perspectives. But please
don't repeat responses for the same category more than once.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/InstreamFlowLevelsTrainingCenter
We want to maximize outreach to stakeholders so you are encouraged to share
this email and link with other water resource stakeholders. I will apologize in
advance if you receive multiple copies of this survey request, which is highly
likely if you are on multiple water and natural resource distribution lists.
On behalf of my co-chair and Instream Flow and Water Level Conservation
Training Center project Steering Committee members, your time and input are
greatly appreciated!
SC Co-Chair David Weedman, IFC Past President
SC Co-Chair Doug Austen, AFS Executive Director
SC Members
Tom Annear
Daren Carlisle
Christopher Estes
Thom Hardy
Allan Locke
Donald Orth
Dudley Reiser
Clair Stalnaker
DAVID WEEDMAN, Past President of IFC and,
AQUATIC HABITAT PROGRAM MANAGER
ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT
OFFICE: 623.236.7607
MOBILE: 602.710.9132
EMAIL: dweedman@xxxxxxxxx
