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SUMMARY:Connect and Collaborate: Friends SHARE Zoom Invite!
DESCRIPTION:CORFA is hosting the next Friends SHARE zoom call and it’s right around the corner! Please join us on April 15th at 4:00 pm Eastern. Please RSVP by April 11th and we will send you a zoom link for the call. Registration is required in advance to receive the Zoom link. \nThe Zoom call is only for a member of a Friends group or their staff. Feel free to share this invite with your board members and other Friends groups. To ensure everyone can fully express themselves\, ask tough questions\, have their comments heard and respected\, and be assured that conflict will be respectful the call will not be recorded\, and we ask all participants to review and agree to our Safe Space Guidelines. \nDate: Tuesday\, April 15\, 2025 \nTime: 4:00 PM ET\, 3:00 PM CT\, 2:00 PM MT\, 1:00 PM PT \nRSVP: To coalitionrefugefriends@gmail.com by March 22nd with Friends SHARE in the subject line. In the body of the email tell us the name of your Friends group. \nWe are looking forward to getting together. \nCORFA’s Friends SHARE Team \nMike Baldwin\, Ceal Craig\, Cheryl Hart\, Sarah Meyer\, Joan Patterson\, Polly Sheppard\, Willem Stoeller\, Joan Van Gorp\, Kathy Woodward\, Tom Worthington \nP.S. We thank the National Wildlife Refuge Association for providing Zoom for the call.
URL:https://coalitionofrefugefriends.com/event/save-the-date-january-2025-friends-share/
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SUMMARY:Place-Creation: An Invitation to Imagine the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tyra Olstad\, 2024 Voices of the Wilderness Artist in Residence on the Arctic Refuge \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe “Voices of the Wilderness” program connects artists of all different media and styles to federally managed Wilderness areas with the hope that the artists give voice to what might otherwise seem like remote\, unknowable places. In return for the trip of a lifetime embedded with refuge field crews\, artists provide to the refuge a work of art based on the residency. You will experience Tyra’s art at this presentation.  With her spoken word and visual images\, Tyra Olstad will invite you to envision the Arctic Refuge\, to actively immerse yourself in the landscape\, and to imagine the Arctic from different  perspectives and at different scales. (Think like a tussock!)  It’s intended for audiences who know little about the Arctic\, much less the Refuge\, to experienced Arctic travelers who will be encouraged to consider the place with fresh eyes. An Arctic Refuge staffer described her presentation as “goose-bumpy good.” Come let her take you to the Arctic. \nLearn more about the artist and her work HERE.
URL:https://coalitionofrefugefriends.com/event/place-creation-an-invitation-to-imagine-the-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge/
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SUMMARY:2025 Chat with the Chief: Refuge System Funding\, Workforce\, Budget\, & Priorities
DESCRIPTION:SAVE the DATE for a ZOOM CALL\nRegistration will be open soon. \nJoin Cynthia Martinez\, Chief of the National Wildlife Refuge System\, for an update on: \n\n\n\nFunding and workforce changes\nFY 2025 budget and priorities\nHow Friends can help tell the National Wildlife Refuge System story\n\n\n\nCynthia Martinez\, Chief of the National Wildlife Refuge System. A fifth-generation New Mexican\, Cynthia Martinez is the first woman and Hispanic to lead the Refuge System. She began her career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1993 and became Chief of the Refuge System in 2015. She came to Refuge System headquarters in September 2010 as chief of the Division of Visitor Services and Communications\, where she led the process for developing the Refuge System’s 2011 Conserving the Future vision conference and subsequent documents – the renewed vision for growth and management of the Refuge System. Martinez was deputy chief of the Refuge System from 2012 to 2015. Before coming to Refuge System headquarters\, Martinez was the manager at Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex in Las Vegas\, Nevada. She has a bachelor of science degree in general biology from New Mexico State University and a master of science degree in fisheries and wildlife science from University of Arizona.
URL:https://coalitionofrefugefriends.com/event/2025-chat-with-the-chief-refuge-system-funding-workforce-budget-priorities/
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SUMMARY:Making Your Voice Heard: How to Write an Impactful Letter to the Editor or Op-Ed
DESCRIPTION:The opinion section of your local newspaper is one of the most influential spaces in your community. In these precarious times for refuges and conservation\, if you have considered writing a letter to the editor\, an op-ed or maybe even a blog post but didn’t know where to begin\, this webinar will give you a start. \nPresenters \n\nMatthew Emmer\, President\, Friends of the Savannah Coastal Wildlife Refuges. Board Member\, Coalition of Refuge Friends and Advocates.\nBill O’Brian writer-editor with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/National Wildlife Refuge System from 2010 to 2023. Before that: journalist for three decades\, including 23 years at the Washington Post\, where for a time he edited letters to the editor and local op-eds.\n\nSign Up!
URL:https://coalitionofrefugefriends.com/event/making-your-voice-heard-how-to-write-an-impactful-letter-to-the-editor-or-op-ed/
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