Wolf Coordination Task Force Conference
Missoula, MT — February 18, 2012
Missoula Fair Grounds
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Join Trademark America's Wolf Coordination Task Force for a full day of learning about the many challenges that the introduction of wolves are causing for our communities.
The Wolf Coordination Task Force assists rural counties in exercising local government powers, roles, and authorities through the effective use of the formal coordination process. The goal is a much greater degree of local control over wolf management programs that effectively protect families, livestock, pets, and rural livelihoods from the consequences of the rapid growth of wolf populations. Wolf overpopulation and emerging behaviors endanger the heritage, culture, civil rights of citizens, and lifeways of rural and small communities. Every town and county within America's expanding "wolf country" needs to develop its own "living with wolves" policy. Our task force helps you bring state and federal agencies to the table in government-to-government relationships to develop a wolf plan with the maximum possible consistency with your local plan.
What you will learn on February 18th
It's time for local government to empower itself using information necessary to effectively engage in the issues related to wolf management.
Federal and state agencies manage rapidly increasing numbers of wolves with inadequate regard for public safety, the economic stability of local communities dependent upon big game populations or livestock safety for the preservation of local culture.
In Idaho and Montana, and other states, wildlife agencies are statutorily required to coordinate wolf management plans with local government. Similarly, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is required to consult with local government prior to making listing and management decisions under provisions of the Endangered Species Act.
Local government officials will gain an understanding of the Tenth Amendment tools available for engaging in the coordination of wolf management policy development and implementation.
Everyone will leave the conference with the information needed to engage meaningfully in the development of well-balanced wolf management policy. The training and materials include the documents and tools needed to initiate and implement local government's rightful place in protecting the public health, safety, and welfare of their citizens.
Citizens will gain the knowledge necessary for assisting their local government officials engaging in coordination. This helps ensure local government is supported in providing for:
- Protection of the safety, health, and economy of local communities.
- Protection of livestock and other domestic animals.
- Protection of the big game herds that should be the primary focus of wildlife agency officials.
Download program brochure and registration form 245 kb PDF file
Our Speakers
Norman MacLeod
Norman MacLeod is President and CEO of Gaelic Wolf Consulting, a natural resource policy consultancy in northwest Washington, which he founded in 1997 after a distinguished Air Force career. Sought after by elected officials and staff at local, state, and federal levels, he brings his conflict resolution skills to bear working at the intersection between science and public policy. He is central to Washington’s HB 1307, a first-of-kind bill on scientific integrity and peer review. Mr. MacLeod will speak on scientific integrity and economic impact analysis as applied to natural resource policy. He will also discuss how to work effectively with your state Legislature.
Clayton H. Dethlefsen
Clay Dethlefsen is Chairman and Executive Director of the Western Predator Control Association, a non-profit education and scientific research organization. Mr. Dethlefsen brings nearly fifty years of professional experience, leadership, and achievements to Trademark America's efforts with specific concentration during the last three years in Gray Wolf injection issues that include canine diseases and wolf attacks on humans that he will be discussing at the Missoula conference.
Fred Kelly Grant
Fred Kelly Grant is a leading expert on all aspects of the formal coordination process. Based in large part upon his work, nearly 200 local jurisdictions have engaged in coordination. Born in Hartsville, South Carolina, Mr. Grant enjoyed a successful career as a criminal law attorney in Baltimore, Maryland prior to moving to Idaho. Twenty years ago, he became involved as the Chair of an Owyhee County, Idaho workgroup that used coordination as the vehicle for developing the Owyhee Initiative. The resulting Owyhee Initiative Act was signed into law by President Obama in 2009, protecting the interests of Owyhee County ranchers and resolving long-standing grazing and other land use management policies. Fred will discuss coordination, what it is and how to implement it for engagement with state and federal agencies on wolf management issues.
Matt Kanenwisher
Matt Kanenwisher is a member of the Ravalli County, Montana Board of County Commissioners, which is currently involved in a coordination process on wolf management with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks. Mr. Kanenwisher will be sharing his first-hand perspective of that process and establishing the economic impacts on local economies relative to the impacts wolves have on the hunting and outfitting industries. Ravalli County has been particularly hard-hit by the activities of a rapidly increasing wolf population that includes disturbing numbers of wolf-human encounters in both the rural community and the county's built environments. Matt is married to Tanya, a first grade teacher, and is the father of five. He's a cardiac ICU nurse, and a former rugby player who now coaches the sport.
Our agenda includes:
> The Tenth Amendment
> The Data Quality Act
> The Regulatory Flexibility Act
> Planning Alternatives Regarding
- Agenda 21 concerns
- The Endangered Species Act
> Individual State Statutes
> Disease Concerns Associated with Wolves
> Economic Impacts of Wolf Introduction
> Scientific Integrity and Conduct of Economic Impact Analyses
> Rural Council Executive Order Concerns
> Using Coordination for Meaningful Participation in Wolf Management Planning
> Questions and Answers
Missoula Fairgrounds
1101 South Avenue West
Missoula, Montana
Cost: $40.00 per person.
Space will be limited!
You can register by calling our office 208-465-0304. Visa, MasterCard and Discover accepted. |
