Upcoming workshops: How can ODFW best share economic and social monitoring results?

The ODFW marine reserves program needs your help, as well as input from other community members to develop sections of the Cascade Head and Cape Perpetua site management plans. One of the ways they’ll be gathering input is through a series of workshops, this is the second of workshops that will continue through the spring of 2014.

Cascade Head Marine Protected Area & Salmon Rivermouth, photo Ben Neives.

Upcoming Workshop Dates & Locations:

Cascade Head Marine Reserve
Wednesday March 12^th from 6-8 pm. Newport Recreation Center at 225 SE Avery St., Newport, OR 97365

Cape Perpetua Marine Reserve

Thursday March 13^th from 6-8 pm. Yachats Commons U.S. Hwy 101 at 5^th St., Yachats, OR 97498

The site management plans will outline the best ways for ODFW to:

• Share our scientific monitoring results and activities
• Provide general information about Oregon’s marine reserves
• Improve compliance through rules education
• Provide opportunities for people to get involved

Also, the site management plans will outline the community’s interests and priorities for activities above and beyond those of ODFW.

ODFW need's community input in each of these areas to make the plans successful. Each of the workshops will focus on one of these sections of the management plan. If you are unable to attend the workshops, there will be other opportunities for input including conversations between stakeholders and ODFW staff and a public review and comment period before the plans are completed.

Our second workshop will specifically focus on how to communicate ODFW’s human dimension (social and economic) monitoring activities and results. We will be looking to answer the question:  What are the best ways to share information with the community? All workshops are open to everyone, so please spread the word and join us if you can.

The workshops will be on the same topic but for each reserve separately. As additional workshops are scheduled we will notify folks via the marine reserves email listserv as well as by posting announcements on the Oregon Marine Reserves website:www.oregonocean.info\marinereserves.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact Stacy Galleher or Cristen Don with the ODFW Marine Reserves Program at:

Stacy Galleher

Outreach & Community Engagement Coordinator

Stacy.n.galleher@state.or.us

541-867-7701 x224

Cristen Don

Program Leader

Cristen.N.Don@state.or.us

541-867-7701 x228