Breakout Group Topics and Guiding Questions

Breakout Group Topics and Guiding Questions

1. The processes for identifying, prioritizing and filling cross LCC science needs.
2. What process are each LCC using today to identify goals for science?
3. What geographic scope?
4. What strategies – partnerships, compilation of other people’s work, funding scientific research – are most effective in meeting science needs?
5. What options for collaboration between LCC’s for meeting shared science needs
6. And most broadly – how is science to be applied? What is relationship between LCC’s and entities with on the ground conservation deliver capacity?

1. Strategies to better inform conservation of species and habitat to advance common conservation objectives for the 5 LCCs.
2. What broad goals and more specific strategies are being used today to influence conservation?
3. What actions are proving most effective? Going forward, how best to ensure LCC’s have a positive impact on conservation and resource management?
4. How to measure impact (i.e. are people aware of the outcome of LCC actions? Are results being used? Do products result in positive impacts on species, habitats or ecological processes? ).
5. How can collaboration increase conservation impact?
6. Coordination of business practices among the 5 LCC’s (e.g. RFP’s, staffing, project data management & delivery, project tracking)
7. What are specific challenges associated with ongoing LCC operations and business practices?
8. What has worked well and what hasn’t in terms of business practices? What strategies are LCCs using to address these needs beyond direct staffing?
9. What are the greatest challenges to working effectively/efficiently? What actions are needed to overcome the challenges?
10. Are there opportunities for collaboration between LCC’s as a way to improve business practices?
11. Strategies to increase and leverage funding or other resources and influence other entities to produce products/take actions that support LCC mission.
12. How to move beyond the FWS being primary investor for Alaska and NW Canada LCCs?
13. What other sources have been tapped including work by other agencies or by other partners, including industry or non-profits?
14. Other novel collaborations through annual RFPs by others?
15. How to document non-monetary contributions by partners?
16. Two-way communication and outreach about the science and information products LCCs are producing and ideas about improving our listening to conservation partners, to agencies, residents, communities and other public stakeholders.
17. What are goals for outreach?
18. Who are specific targets?
19. How best to set up a dialogue - “two way communication” - between LCC’s and the public and other partners
20. What are best methods? (e.g. newsletters, websites, workshops, social media…?)
21. What opportunities for piggybacking on other outreach events/activities (e.g.,AFE, AFN,...) or joint outreach efforts (‘AK LCC webinar series’)?