About Session
Sessions 3 and 4 will be held concurrently at 4pm. Attendees will be able to join either session through a breakout room.
Session 3: Community Involvement
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.
Angie Horn: National Wildlife Refuge Association; Suzanne Trapp: Urban Outreach Coordinator – Retired; Ken Kupchak: Friends of Oahu Refuges;
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.


