Welcome to the TWS Wildlife and Habitat Restoration Working Group
NEW UPDATES (Spring 2012)
Our 2012 working group travel grant is available!!Just as with last year's grant, we have one available for students and one for professionals. However, the 2012 travel grant covers registration in addition to $100 spending money for covering some food or hotel charge.
PAST UPDATES (Spring to late Summer 2011, and Winter 2012)
The Executive board is pleased to annoucnce that we have reached over 600 members of our LinkedIn Group! This professional networking tool is a great way for our members to share news, research, jobs, and photos related to wildlife and habitat restoration. If you have not yet joined, please check us out and thanks for all the great input from current members!
Two grants are available, one for a student member and the other for a professional member.
Grants will cover registration costs for the 2011 TWS Annual Conference in Hawaii
We are seeking nominations for the 2011-2012 term. Multiple positions are available and we encourage both professionals and students seeking to make a difference to consider these leadership opportunities. Click here for more information.
Speaking of Hawaii, please join us for a meeting. mingle, and meet and greet in Hawaii. We will be in Queens 5 from 5:30-6:30p.m., Tuesday November 8, 2011. We're keeping it simple with appetizers and beer and encourage members to join us and bring a friend or two.
Our Summer newsletter is now available on this website (go to News, then Current Newsletters), via our LinkedIn group, or through our list serv.
With the TWS Annual Conference just around the corner, the Executive Board is preparing for upcoming elections. We look forward to many of our members considering this service opportunity. We will post an official call for nominees soon. If you have any questions in the meantime, please feel free to contact a current board member. You may also review our Bylaws.
Check out new upcoming conferences and symposiums posted on the Events page.
Our listserv is up and running. Instructions on how to join can be found by clicking here.
The Wildlife and Habitat Restoration Working Group (WHRWG) provides a forum for TWS members to share experiences, techniques, and information relative to restoring wildlife populations and degraded habitats. The WHRWG explores methods for implementing ecosystem management principles that enable whole communities to recover, and seeks to identify effective monitoring and evaluation programs to determine successes and failures of restoration techniques.
If you are interested in learning more about the working group, you can view the working group positions and descriptions in the Working Group Charter or contact a board member for more information. The WHRWG encourages any TWS member to take an active leadership role as a WHRWG officer, Board representative, or Committee Chairperson.
A view of rockland pine forest at Everglades National Park during the 2008 TWS Annual Conference, WHRWG Workshop.
2008 workshop attendee examining marl prairie soil at Everglades National Park.