IMPLEMENTATION
STRATEGY:
GOAL V: TO INCREASE AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF
NATIVE PRAIRIE AND ITS VALUES
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Objective |
Actions (RANKING) |
Timetable |
LEAD AND SUPPORTING AGENCIES, Continuing Activities
& Update |
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1. Promote awareness of the PCAP Vision,
Goals, Objectives and Actions. |
a)
Increase co-ordination and communication between agencies conducting research
on native prairie ecosystems. To
facilitate this, each PCAP meeting will feature presentations on important
activities featuring a particular Goal.
Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: FAIR Partner
Update # 5: 2 Partner
Update # 6: 3 (All) |
Since
June 2003 December
2005 |
Many
examples of co-ordination and communication among PCAP Partners can be found
in: Goal 1, Objective 1 (Promote grazing programs that are based on
economically and scientifically sound principles) and Goal 3, Objective 2 (Promote management of native prairie to
maintain biological diversity) for related activities. Our December meeting featured
4 presentations relating to Goal 3, and one presentation each that related to
Goals 2 and 5. |
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b)
Maintain and regularly update the PCAP website. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: FAIR-GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 2 Partner
Update # 6: 3 (PCAP
Office, All) |
Since
1998 |
PCAP
maintains and updates its website.
Partners are encouraged to submit events for posting (contact Karyn
Scalise). |
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c)
Link PCAP Partners to (and from) PCAP website. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 3 Partner
Update # 6: 3 (PCAP
Office, All) |
Since
1998 March
2006 |
PCAP
Partners and other relevant groups are linked to the PCAP website. Several Partners do not appear to be
providing a link to the PCAP website on their websites – this has been
brought to their attention (contact Karyn Scalise). PCESC
website is linked to the PCAP Website
– www.pcesc.ca |
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d) Recruit new PCAP Partners. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 3 Partner
Update # 6: 4 (PCAP
Office, All) |
March 2006 |
FNACS and PLC join the PCAP
Partnership for a total of 27 Partners since 2003, and 16 (original) Partners
since 1998 (contact Karyn Scalise – PCAP, Jessica Clay – FNACS, or Karin
Smith-Fargey - PLC). |
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e)
Promote the PCAP through the media. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 3 Partner
Update # 6: 3 (PCAP
Office, All) |
October 17, 2005 June
2003 March
2003 Annually
-June |
PCAP issued a press release
on the launch of a partnership, modelled after the SK PCAP, in Chihuahua City
Mexico aimed at protecting grasslands in Chihuahua state (contact Dr. David
Gauthier or Karyn Scalise). PCAP
issued a press release on the launch of the 2003-2008 PCAP (contact Karyn
Scalise). PCAP
issued a press release on receiving the Countryside Canada Award (contact
Karyn Scalise). PCAP
issues a press release on Native Prairie Appreciation Week (contact Karyn
Scalise). |
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f)
Compile and distribute annual Partner Updates. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 3 Partner
Update # 6: 3 (PCAP
Office, All) |
June 2006 June
2005 Nov
2003 |
PCAP Office compiled and
distributed Partner Update #6, herein (contact Karyn Scalise). PCAP
Office compiled and distributed Partner Update #5, herein (contact Karyn
Scalise). PCAP
Office compiled and distributed Partner Update #4 (contact Karyn Scalise). |
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g)
Promote the PCAP at trade-shows, conferences, etc. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 2 Partner
Update # 6: 2 (PCAP
Office, All) |
Since 1998 January 25-26, 2006 December 7-9, 2006 January
21, 2005 May
30-31, 2005 May
30 - June 1, 2004 May
2004 February
2004 February
2004 February
2004 January
2004 December
2003 June
1-3, 2003 May
2003 |
PCAP participated in the following: CWRA/SNOWS conference in Regina to ~ 200 delegates. Presentation on stewardship education
programs and display with materials (contact Karyn Scalise or Rick West). Western Canadian Forage and
Grazing Conference – Saskatoon (~150 delegates): PCAP display and materials
provided (contact Karyn Scalise). SSGA Semi-Annual Meeting-
Saskatoon (~ 60 delegates): PCAP
presentation delivered (contact Karyn Scalise). 92nd Annual SSGA
Convention – Swift Current (~200 delegates): PCAP display and materials 91st Annual SSGA
Convention – Assiniboia (~200 delegates): PCAP presentation
delivered (contact Karyn Scalise). SK
Network of Watershed Stewards (SNOWS) Conference – Saskatoon (200 delegates):
PCAP display and materials provided (contact Karyn Scalise). NPSS
AGM and Workshop – Swift Current (77 delegates): PCAP presentation delivered
(contact Karyn Scalise or Garth Wruck). Expert Committee on Forage
Crops - Saskatoon (~35 delegates): PCAP
presentation delivered (contact Tom Harrison). SSGA
Meeting Zones 3 & 12 – Minton (~ 80 delegates): Presentation on the PCAP (contact Karyn Scalise). SSGA
Meeting Zone 1 – Alameda (~ 80 delegates): PCAP presentation delivered
(contact Karyn Scalise). Western
Canadian Forage and Grazing Conference – Saskatoon (~230 delegates): PCAP
display and materials provided (contact Karyn Scalise). 90th Annual SSGA
Convention - Yorkton; SSGA – June 1-3 (~200 delegates): PCAP presentation delivered (contact Karyn
Scalise). Plain as the Eye Can See -
Regina; UofR, RSM, SE (100 delegates):
PCAP presentation delivered (contact Karyn Scalise). |
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h) Encourage Partners to regularly update staff and members. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 2 Partner
Update # 6: 2 (All) |
Since
1998 Since
1999 January 11, 2006 September 11, 2003 December
2003 Since
1998 Since
2004 Spring
2005 2004 Since
1998 |
PCAP
encourages Partners to update their staff and members and to involve them in
reporting activities to Partner Updates (contact Karyn Scalise). AAFC-PFRA
sends a copy of the Plan and the Updates to each Community Pasture Manager,
all Land Managers and other District Staff. Regular presentations are made at
staff meetings (contact Chris Nykoluk). DUC Office (Regina):
PCAP presentation delivered (contact Karyn Scalise or Michael
Champion). DUC Office (Regina): PCAP presentation delivered (contact Karyn
Scalise). NPSS
included PCAP update article to its members in winter issue of the Native
Plant News - 250 distributed (contact Garth Wruck). NS
has distributed and made available copies of PCAP 2003-2008 to its Board,
members and NS program staff and participants. PCAP articles regularly appear in NS’s newsletter, Nature Views (contact Margaret Skeel). SE
regularly distributes minutes of the PCAP meetings to senior managers
(contact Ann Riemer). SE
will make the importance of native prairie and Native Prairie Appreciation
Week the subject of its early spring 2005 Newsline newsletter (contact
Ann Riemer). SSGA
provided information on the PCAP at 5 Zone meetings and Town Hall Meetings
held in conjunction with CFIA on BSE testing (contact Sheila Fishley). |
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i)
Provide newsletter articles to PCAP Partners and post them on websites. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: FAIR-GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 3 Partner
Update # 6: 2 (PCAP
Office) |
Since
1998 |
PCAP
regularly provides articles to the following newsletters: NS – Nature Views, Stewards
of SK; SSGA Stockgrower; SWA Native Prairie Update; SRM newsletters. In 2003 PCAP articles also appeared in the
International NCC and SRM newsletters.
PCAP articles published every 2 months in the Stockgrower newsletter
and can be modified for inclusion in other Partner newsletters (contact Karyn
Scalise). |
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2. Evaluate public awareness, appreciation
and understanding of native prairies. |
a)
Conduct and report on a questionnaire survey assessing public awareness,
understanding, and appreciation of native prairie. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 2 Partner
Update # 6: 1 (UofR-CPRC) |
2000 2004-2005 2004-2005 2005-2006 |
SWA conducted a phone survey
of Voluntary Stewards with remnant areas of Prairie regarding their attitudes
towards their native prairie, their management practices and their
conservation of native prairie (contact Jennifer Lohmeyer). SWA conducted a phone survey
of landowners with remnant areas of Prairie regarding their attitudes towards
their native prairie, their management practices and their conservation of
native prairie. This survey was
compared to the survey of voluntary stewards that was conducted in 2000 to
determine if the Prairie Stewardship Program was having a positive effect on
these attributes (contact Jennifer Lohmeyer). SWA conducted a phone survey
of Voluntary Stewards and landowners with large parcels of Native Prairie in
Southern SK regarding their attitudes towards their native prairie, their
management practeds, and their conservation of native prairie. The two groups were compared to determine
if the Prairie Stewardship Program was having a positive effect on these
attributes (contact Jennifer Lohmeyer). UofR-CPRC has received some
funding for conducting the survey identified in this Action in Southern SK
and AB in 2005-2006 (contact Dr. David Gauthier). |
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3.
Coordinate PCAP communication and education activities with other native prairie
conservation initiatives at local, national and international levels. |
a)
Contribute to the development of the CEC North American Grassland
Conservation Strategy. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 3 Partner
Update # 6: 3 (UofR-CPRC,
All) |
2003 April 18-22, 2005 |
UofR-CPRC
and the CEC published ‘Grasslands: Toward a North American Conservation
Strategy’ (contact Dr. David Gauthier). UofR-CPRC made a
presentation on the usefulness of an ecoregional framework in continental conservation
area planning to the 1st North American Workshop on Capacity
Building for Biodiversity Conservation: monitoring of species, spaces &
common threats in Jalisco Mexico (contact Dr. David Gauthier). |
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b)
Exchange information on a regular basis with other prairie conservation
groups. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 3 Partner
Update # 6: 3 (All) |
Since
June 2003 March 1-3, 2007 February 12-17, 2006 February
6-10, 2005 May
20, 2004 February
26-29, 2004 February
26, 2004 October
21-23, 2003 September
17, 2003 May
31, 2003 March 7-8, 2005 2005 Fall
2004 2003 2003 2003 |
PCAP
delivered presentations and/or attended the following meetings (contact Karyn
Scalise): PCAP is planning the 8th Prairie
Conservation and Endangered Species Conference (PCESC) at the Delta
Regina. Co-Chairs are Dr. David
Gauthier (UofR) and Allen Patkau (SSGA) (contact Karyn Scalise). PCAP delivered a presentation on the PCAP Partnership
at the Coordinated Resource Management Workshop held with the 59th
Annual Meeting of the SRM in Vancouver, BC.
PCAP also had a poster on its stewardship education programs at the
SRM conference (contact Karyn Scalise or Orin Balas). PCAP delivered a
presentation on the PCAP Partnership at the Coordinated Resource Management
Workshop held with the 58th Annual Meeting of the SRM in Fort
Worth, TX, and was featured as a success story (contact Karyn Scalise or
Allen Patkau). PCAP Executive Committee
members participated in the Plenary Session of the IX Trilateral Committee
Meeting in Calgary (contact Dr. David Gauthier, Pat Fargey, Allen Patkau or
Karyn Scalise). Prairie
Conservation and Endangered Species Conference (PCAES) – Calgary AB (~400 delegates). PCAP presentation and poster on
Stewardship Education Programs (contact Karyn Scalise). Northern
Plains Conservation Network meeting –
Calgary. ~ 40 delegates (contact
Allen Patkau) Northern
Mixed Grass Multi-Site Conservation Planning Initiative (Series One –
Grasslands/Badlands) Efroymson Fellowship Program 2003 – Workshop 3 – Fort Benton MT; Hosted by NCC and
TNC. ~35 U.S. & Canadian
delegates (contact Karyn Scalise). International
Grasslands Symposium – Fort Collins, CO.
~100 U.S., Mex. & Can, delegates (contact Karyn Scalise). Sierra
Club – Val Marie; hosted by PC-GNP. ~ 50 Can. & U.S. delegates (contact
Karyn Scalise). UofR-CPRC delivered a presentation on participatory
stakeholder participation to the national workshop on Assessing Biodiversity
on Agricultural Lands in Tononto, ON. UofR-CPRC published
“Managing Changing Prairie Landscapes”, a book edited by T. Radenbaugh and G.
Sutter (contact Dr. David Gauthier). UofR-CPRC
published “Cultural Crisis in (Agri)Culture”, a special issue of the
scholarly journal, Prairie Forum (contact
Dr. David Gauthier). UofR-CPRC
published ‘The Swift Fox: Ecology and Conservation of Swift Foxes in a
Changing World’ (contact Dr. David Gauthier). UofR-CPRC
and Wildlife Habitat Canada published ‘Monitoring the Conservation of
Grassland Habitats, Prairie Ecozone, Canada’ in Journal of Ecological
Monitoring and Assessment 88: 343-364 (contact Dr. David Gauthier). UofR-CPRC
and Wildlife Habitat Canada co-authored ‘Chapter 29 – Conservation of
Biodiversity: in Protected Areas and the Regional Planning Imperative in
North America’ (contact Dr. David Gauthier). |
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4. Educate the general public about native
prairie ecosystems. |
a)
Develop and deliver youth education programs. Ranking: Partner
Update # 4: GOOD Partner
Update # 5: 4 Partner
Update # 6: 4 (AAFC-PFRA, PCAP,
EC-CWS, FNACS, NPSS, NS, PC-GNP, PLC, RSM, SBOIC, SRM, SWA, SWF) |
April 2005 – March 2006 Since
1999-2000 2005 2005 2005 Since
2004 November 2005 (Since
November 1998) February-March,
2006 November 28 – December 2,
2005 December 2004 January-February 2006 (Since
February 2000) July
5-9, 2004 June
– October 2004 May
2002 – Oct 2004 2003
- 2004 Since
2002 2001
- 2003 |