©Micheal Paulbeck

Board Meetings are held in February, April, July and November of each year at a central location for the members to meet. Often we meet at the Brainerd Department of Natural Resources Office. The board meetings are where the majority of the chapter business decisions take place. The executive board, regional representatives, committee chairs and student chapter representatives all come together to work on chapter business at these meetings.

Annual Meetings and Summer Workshops are primarily held for education purposes with topics of interest to our membership and presentations from professionals. Our summer meetings generally include a field trip to look at ongoing management projects in addition to presented information. The annual meeting has a plenary session with focused topics for the speakers and concurrent technical sessions with shorter and more broadly based educational presentations. Elections, awards and change of officers all occur at the annual meeting as well as a business meeting to inform the membership of the work that the board has done over the past year.

Every other year we hold our annual meeting with another natural resource related professional organization. The interaction with other organizations broadens our perspectives of natural resources issues and hopefully makes us better professionals. Presenters in the technical program at meetings should read the appropriate Guide to Authors for Oral Presentations and Posters, as well as Scientically Speaking produced by the Oceanographic Society -- all are great resources for presenters.

Annual Meeting

Annual Meeting 2010: Science in the Centruy of Accelerating Change
Held jointly with the American Fisheries Society (AFS), Society of American Foresters (SAF), and Society for Conservation Biology (SCB), March 1-3, 2010, Grand View Lodge, Nisswa, MN (Brainerd)
Questions can be sent to Greg Hoch, hoch@cord.edu

 

Summer Meetings & Workshops

2010 Summer meeting: Topic to be determined

2010 Shallow Lakes Forum VII
Chaska, Minnesota
April 5, 2010
Up-to-date information is available at http://www.shallowlakes.info/boardcontacts.html 

 

 

2007 Summer Meeting Report
2006 Summer Workshop “Grazing Options for Grassland Managers”
2006 Summer Workshop “Brushland Management”

TWS Meeting 2004 by Stacy Salvevold

The Aspen Parkland Conference
The Minnesota Shallow Lakes Forum

  -  www.shallowlakes.info

Other Events

70th Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference
Springfield, Illinois
December 6-9, 2009

Brushland & Sharp-tailed Grouse Meeting
Minnesot Sharp-tailed Grouse Society
April 24, 2009
Long Lake Conservation Center
Workshop Agenda & Meeting Registration

 

In 2006, four major natural resource related professional organizations held the 1 st Minnesota Natural Resources Conference in Brainerd, MN. Professionals from the Minnesota Chapters of the Society of American Foresters, Conservation Biology, and the American Fisheries Society attended the conference along with Wildlife Society members. Over 430 professionals represented natural resources management well at this joint meeting. We expect to hold a joint conference with all four organizations once every three to five years.