CASCADE-SISKIYOU BUTTERFLY MONITORING NETWORK TRAINING 

GEOS Institute
Ashland, Oregon
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PST

Join us to learn more about the newly launched Cascade-Siskiyou Butterfly Monitoring Network! 

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS FULL. PLEASE EMAIL LAUREN.RICHEY@XERCES.ORG IF YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR NAME ADDED TO THE WAIT LIST. WE WILL NOTIFY YOU IN THE EVENT THAT A SPACE OPENS UP. THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST!

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This half-day workshop will be led by biologists with the Xerces Society and the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Classroom topics will include general information on the conservation status of butterflies in Southern Oregon, as well as an overview of our project's goals for 2019. Participants will be trained in a standardized monitoring protocol and will learn how to collect and submit data for the monitoring program. We will spend the latter part of the morning practicing the protocol and butterfly identification at a nearby field site.

COURSE AGENDA

9:00 - 10:30      Classroom session (status of North American butterflies, introduction to the fauna of the Monument, and overview of the new monitoring program)

10:30 - 12:30    Field session (visit nearby field site and practice monitoring protocol and  butterfly ID)

12:30 - 1:00      Return to classroom and wrap-up

1:00 - 3:00        Optional site visits with individual volunteers, as needed

INSTRUCTOR

Candace Fallon, Senior Conservation Biologist, The Xerces Society
Candace Fallon is a senior conservation biologist in Xerces’ Endangered Species Program. As the public lands lead, she manages federal contracts focusing on the conservation and management of at-risk invertebrate species in the West. She also has extensive experience developing and managing community science projects, providing technical guidance for land managers, and conducting outreach. Candace works with diverse taxa, including butterflies, beetles, aquatic macroinvertebrates, and freshwater and terrestrial mollusks. Prior to joining Xerces in 2012, she worked for the Interagency Special Status Sensitive Species Program, a collaboration between the US Forest Service and BLM that focuses on the conservation and management of rare species.

WORKSHOP GUESTS

Katie Hietala-Henschell, Conservation Biologist, The Xerces Society
Katie Hietala-Henschell is a conservation biologist with the Xerces Society. She holds a master’s degree in Forest Ecology and Management from Michigan Technological University, where her research focused on plant-insect interactions. Prior to joining the Xerces Society, she was a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the Entomology Department and worked with pollinators, invasive insects, and beneficial insects in agricultural systems, biofuel crops, and native ecosystems. At Xerces, she works with rare and threated species on public lands, conducts field surveys for butterflies, bees, and other invertebrate taxa, and co-coordinates the Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count.  

Charles Schelz, Ecologist, Bureau of Land Management
Charles Schelz has been the ecologist for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument since 2017. Over the past 30 years, he has worked with a number of organizations, including the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, Oregon State University, San Francisco State University, BioWest Consulting, and the Forest Service. Twenty-five of those years were spent as an ecologist with the National Park Service, working in various parks throughout the West. His interests include ecological research, inventory, monitoring, and the restoration of native ecosystems.

John Villella, Senior Botanist, Siskiyou BioSurvey, LLC
John has had a lifelong fascination with nature and has spent the last two decades studying and documenting the biodiversity of the Pacific Northwest as an environmental educator and an ecological consultant specializing in rare species. He has an especially interest in lichens and butterflies. 

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