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Community Involvement
Description
Learn some of the innovative ways Friends and FWS staff are ensuring that refuges are community assets enjoyed and valued by a broad population individuals and groups.
Friends’ groups play an important role in helping build relationships and partnerships with communities, neighbors, schools, and organizations. Learn how Friends and Service staff are building community relations – ensuring that refuges and hatcheries are welcoming and valued community assets, expanding wildlife dependent recreation use and helping those unfamiliar with the out of doors become nature enthusiasts.
Speakers
- Angie Horn – Urban Wildlife Program Director, National Wildlife Refuge Association
- Suzanne Trapp – Community Outreach Manager at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Retired
- Ken Kupchak – President of Friends of Oahu NWRs and CORFA Board
Recording and Materials
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