Training Opportunities: Week of September 3, 2024

North American Non-Lead Partnership

Modern Hunting Ammunition - Opportunities for Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Hunters and Conservation

Friday, September 27
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM EDT

The goal of this session is to provide information in an interactive setting about the best available science on modern hunting ammunition, compare ballistics first hand through live range demonstrations, and discuss practical concerns (i.e., ammunition price and availability). The event will run from 9:00am-3:00pm beginning with a classroom segment and will follow with a live range demonstration. 

This workshop will share what's happening on a landscape scale to address lead impacts on wildlife across the nation, and will include classroom discussion as well as a range demonstration to compare different types of hunting ammunition.  

Agenda

9 am: Classroom Discussion at the Visitor Center (2145 Key Wallace Drive, Cambridge, MD 21613

12:00: Lunch provided 

1pm: Range Demonstration

3pm: End

If you have questions, contact Adam Miller at Miller.Adams@peregrinefund.org or

802-777-2852 or Marcia Pradines Long at marcia_pradines@fws.gov or 410-221-1045. 

 

Please register at https://tinyurl.com/BlackwaterAgencyAmmoWorkshop 

Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies Annual Meeting

Increasing Access & Inclusion for Wildlife-related Recreationists with Disabilities

Tuesday, September 24

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

Attendees will:

1. Increase their awareness about wildlife viewers with disabilities, including research findings about this population.

2. Increase their understanding of how to support accessibility and inclusion in wildlife-related recreation through hearing preliminary results from focus groups conducted by the Dayer Human Dimensions Lab at Virginia Tech of disabled wildlife viewers.

3. Learn how to increase relevancy of state wildlife agencies by connecting with disabled wildlife viewers, including knowledge of resources that support best practices doing this.

Registration for the Conference: https://www.afwaannualmeeting.org/registration.html