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Happy New Year, folks!
I hope you all had a relaxing holiday season! I enjoyed spending time with my family, eating tasty food, visiting friends and staying warm. As we kick off the New Year, I believe 2018 will be an exciting year at PCAP! Not only do we have great events lined up, but the 2018-2019 year is the last year for our current Framework! PCAP staff and partners will be working hard this year to renew and update the Framework for the following 5 years!
To end the year, the last Native Prairie Speaker Series for 2017 was a presentation by Jeff Keith, from the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre, who discussed the importance of data sharing. The webinar was informative and lead to a good discussion with the listeners! You can view the webinar on our YouTube channel!
We have two Speaker Series presentations this month, one webinar on January 23rd with Elly Knight from the University of Alberta, where she will be discussing new initiatives for Common Nighthawk research and what they've uncovered! You can register for the webinar here. There will also be one in-person presentation in Mankota, in the Lobby of the Curling Rink, on January 31st with local rancher, Miles Anderson. Miles will be giving a landowner's perspective on the recovery of Greater Sage-grouse and what land managers can do to help dwindling sage-grouse populations.
As we gear up for 2018 (2018!), we're finalizing details for the Native Prairie Restoration/Reclamation Workshop in February. Our program is almost complete and available on the website. There is also an excellent collection of posters this year! NPRRW 2018 has so much to offer, including a trade show, numerous networking opportunities and a banquet featuring a presentation by award-winning author, Sharon Butala! Make sure to stop by the NPRRW website to register before the deadline of February 5th! We're looking forward to seeing everyone there!
Have a wonderful month of January. I hope it won't be too hard for everyone to get back into the swing of things! The (somewhat) longer days and warmer temperatures will help, I'm sure! Take care!
Carolyn Gaudet
SK PCAP Manager
306-352-0472
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Native Prairie Restoration Workshop Banquet features best-selling author Sharon Butala!
On Wednesday, February 7 at 5:00pm you're invited to attend the NPRRW banquet celebrating prairie stewardship! Enjoy listening to Sharon Butala, best-selling prairie author, that evening during the awards ceremony.
Tickets are $60 which includes supper and cocktail hour and there will also be a silent auction with great items available. Proceeds from the auction will go toward environmental and agricultural education programs for youth in Saskatchewan!
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Pronghorn Xing - Collaboration
A group of partners from Alberta and Saskatchewan have initiated Pronghorn Xing, a wildlife reporting interface for citizens to help improve wildlife and human safety. The Alberta Conservation Association, Alberta Transportation, Alberta Environment and Parks, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment and Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) have created a site and app to help motorists and passengers report wildlife sightings. Visit their site for more information!
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Native Prairie Restoration/Reclamation Workshop: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past
Plan to attend this unique prairie restoration event on February 7 & 8, 2018 in Saskatoon.
The conference will include a plenary session, break-out sessions, and case studies as well as a trade show, awards ceremony, poster session and silent auction. Visit our site for all the details!
NPRRW Awards
Do you know of a deserving individual or group who should be nominated for the
Native Prairie Restoration and Reclamation Award? How about someone worthy of the
Native Prairie Stewardship Award?
View the award criteria here and consider nominating someone! Nomination deadline is
JANUARY 19, 2018.
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Saskatchewan Beef Industry Conference - Scholarship Opportunity for Degree and Diploma Students
The Saskatchewan Beef Industry Conference (SBIC) will once again award a one $1000 (diploma) scholarship and one $2000 (degree) scholarship to students enrolled in programs related to agriculture or biology.
**DEADLINE IS JANUARY 8**
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SK PCAP Speaker Series
In January we will host TWO Native Prairie Speaker Series Events!
Join our
FREE Native Prairie Speaker Series Webinar on Tuesday, January 23, 2018
at 12:00pm
(CST) on how collaboration and new technology reveal secrets of the Common Nighthawk.
The presentation will be delivered by Elly Knight, PhD Student from the Bioacoustic Unit at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta.
The next Native Prairie Speaker Series will take place January 31, 2018. Join us in the lobby of the Mankota Curling Rink for a presentation about Greater Sage-grouse recovery from a landowner perspective.
The presentation, delivered by former PCAP Chair and TESA winner Miles Anderson of Fir Mountain, takes place Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 7:00pm.
DYK: you can watch past Speaker Series presentations? All of our previous presentations are available to watch at your convenience on our
YouTube channel
!
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The Prairie Ecologist - Plant Name Game...
You can also read the Prairie Ecologist's Best of 2017 where he recaps his favourite posts and preferred pictures from this past year!
Read more here.
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Native Prairie in the News...
PCAP Partner Nature Conservancy of Canada
has received some media attention recently for a project they've initiated incoporating GPS collars on bison and cattle. The project is designed to monitor grazing behaviour on the Old Man on His Back preserve.
Read about their efforts in
this CBC news piece
or in
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Sponsorship Opportunity for NPRRW18!
There are several ways to get involved with the Native Prairie Restoration and Reclamation Workshop in 2018!
If your organization is involved in prairie conservation, you may stand to benefit from sponsoring this large, well-attended event.
Make a difference and get involved! For more information, contact pcap@sasktel.net or caitlinmroz@hotmail.com
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Tara Mulhern Davidson, Editor, Saskatchewan Prairie Conservation Action Plan Newsletter
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SK PCAP gratefully acknowledges financial support in 2017-2018 from:
Ducks Unlimited Canada, Government of Canada - Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk, Parks Canada - Grasslands National Park of Canada, Saskatchewan Beef Industry Development Fund,
Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture - Agriculture Awareness Initiative, Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment - Fish and Wildlife Development Fund,
SaskEnergy,
SaskPower, University of Saskatchewan - College of Agriculture and Bioresources, Water Security Agency.
SK PCAP gratefully acknowledges in-kind support for 2017-18 from:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Science and Technology Branch, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Association, Canadian Western Agribition, Environment Canada - Canadian Wildlife Service, Friends of Wascana Marsh, Meewasin Valley Authority, Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan, Nature Conservancy Canada, Nature Saskatchewan, Parks Canada - Grasslands National Park, Prairie Wind & Silver Sage, Ranchers Stewardship Alliance Inc., Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve, Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, Saskatchewan Association of Watersheds, Saskatchewan Cattlemen's Association, Saskatchewan Environmental Society, Saskatchewan Forage Council, Saskatchewan Forage Industry Network, Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, Saskatchewan Ministry of Economy, Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, Saskatchewan Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport - Royal Saskatchewan Museum and Friends of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Saskatchewan Research Council, Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association, Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation, Saskatoon Nature Society, SaskEnergy, SaskOutdoors, SaskPower, Society for Range Management - Prairie Parkland Chapter, South of the Divide Conservation Action Program Inc., University of Regina - Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative, University of Saskatchewan - College of Agriculture and Bioresources, Wild About Saskatoon-Nature City Festival.
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