{"id":2686,"global_id":"chapter.ser.org\/rockymountains?id=2686","global_id_lineage":["chapter.ser.org\/rockymountains?id=2686"],"author":"110","status":"publish","date":"2025-02-19 10:56:05","date_utc":"2025-02-19 17:56:05","modified":"2025-02-20 17:33:38","modified_utc":"2025-02-21 00:33:38","url":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/rockymountains\/event\/ser-rocky-mountain-virtual-chapter-meeting\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/rockymountains\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/2686","title":"SER Rocky Mountain Virtual Chapter Meeting","description":"<p>Please join us for an SER Rocky Mountains Chapter Updates on\u00a0<strong>February 27, at 7:00 pm.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SER2025 planning update.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Note registration is open!!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ser2025.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ser2025.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740069048021000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2WLX-NOAuzWibrs3g7jl7q\">https:\/\/ser2025.org\/<\/a><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li>Announce nomination period for 3 Board positions and schedule for elections.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li>First reminder for Make A Difference Week 2025<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li>SER Connect Overview<\/li>\n<li>Chapter virtual meetings 2025.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Suggestions from members on the call (or by email!) how we can set Teams (or Zoom, or whatever) meetings that give you opportunities to hear other members\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li>Chapter Direction 2025!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Please see some introductory ideas below and share your thoughts with the Board<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li>Restoration Partnerships<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li>Micro-Communities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use the Microsoft Teams Link below to join<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>Microsoft Teams\u00a0<a id=\"m_-955209358214603368meet_invite_block.action.help\" href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/JoinTeamsMeeting?omkt=en-US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/aka.ms\/JoinTeamsMeeting?omkt%3Den-US&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740069050259000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2a70oLshsFi3JGsj1TUtSA\">Need help?<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a id=\"m_-955209358214603368meet_invite_block.action.join_link\" title=\"Meeting join link\" href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_OTI0NTAxNDItZmYzZC00ZWY4LTgzODItMDgzM2Q1OTU1ODFm%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22c1ac16a5-6d06-4421-b8c8-69542a3732e5%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2287723b81-66bc-4b1d-af8e-8814bfd761b6%22%7d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%253ameeting_OTI0NTAxNDItZmYzZC00ZWY4LTgzODItMDgzM2Q1OTU1ODFm%2540thread.v2\/0?context%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%2522c1ac16a5-6d06-4421-b8c8-69542a3732e5%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%252287723b81-66bc-4b1d-af8e-8814bfd761b6%2522%257d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740069050259000&amp;usg=AOvVaw22IVjrh5JDvN5fQHEzfvda\">Join the meeting now<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Meeting ID:\u00a0260 874 805 069<\/div>\n<div>Passcode:\u00a0yf6Mq2ei<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>________________________________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b>DETAILS<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b><\/b> <b>BOARD OPENINGS<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have 2 Chapter Officers and 1 Committee Chair up for election this spring.\u00a0 Please consider nominating someone for these positions below (2 year terms with duties as described in our by-laws)<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Treasurer:\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Treasurer shall be responsible for the receipt and disbursement of funds of the Chapter and shall submit financial reports to the Board of Directors at all Chapter meetings and an annual financial report at the end of the fiscal year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Secretary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shall be responsible for recording the minutes of all meetings and the issuance of meeting minutes and of the maintenance of the membership records.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Outreach Committee Chair<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shall organize public lectures, workshops, and festivals and shall work with the Treasurer to solicit external support for such activities<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Our agenda will include an update on the Ser 2025 International Conference.\u00a0 Registration is now open! \u00a0 Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/ser2025.org\/\"><span>https:\/\/ser2025.org\/<\/span><\/a><span> for information on that.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Serving on our Board is a great way to be involved in the development of the Society and the Board and, in doing so, supporting your fellow restoration ecologists!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>WYOMING RESTORATION SUMMIT<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; hosted by TNC Wyoming<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The workshop organizers are being extremely gracious in helping me organize a meeting of SER members who work in Wyoming to discuss Wyoming restoration issues, and Wyoming member issues.\u00a0 Info on the workshop can be found at\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/preserve.nature.org\/page\/163782\/event\/1\"><b><i>https:\/\/preserve.nature.org\/page\/163782\/event\/1<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Date: April 23-24, 2025<\/i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <i>Location: Lander<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, invites practitioners to the Wyoming Sagebrush Restoration Summit. The 2025 meeting focuses on upland sagebrush habitat in Wyoming, and will be an in-person event. This year\u2019s themes are: restoration following surface disturbance, native seeds and seed supply, invasive annual grasses, and conifer encroachment.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/BD1u7jAfHuWgjb5v6\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click here to subscribe for updates<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0(or contact Anika Mahoney, Restoration Technician.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"mailto:anika.mahoney@tnc.org\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">anika.mahoney@tnc.org<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b> <\/b> <b>WORKING UP TO SER2025 BUT LOOKING BEYOND<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given our investment in the SER 2025 Conference, the Chapter Board has emphasized outreach over the past year.\u00a0 We have done member events including Pinedale WY, and also tag-teamed with other organizations to have information tables at their meetings, such as the Colorado Native Plant Society (Durango) and Colorado Conservation Districts (Colo Springs).\u00a0 We will be continue to do this to encourage attendance at the conference by not only members but other individuals or groups who are involved in restoration work but haven\u2019t joined SER\u00a0 &#8211; yet.\u00a0 The Conference is going to be fantastic, but it is not an end to itself. \u00a0 I am seeing it as a great way to explore areas that we could develop as a chapter.\u00a0 These are<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Building Restoration Partnerships<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Building on one of Brock\u2019s initiatives during his term as president, we are going to work harder at developing partnerships with organizations that are implementing and directing ecological restoration.\u00a0 This is an effective way of raising awareness, encouraging sound restoration practices and maintaining communications with you as members AND a much broader audience.\u00a0 I see it as a path towards working with these partners to conduct periodic Restoration Partnering Workshops where we could explore and kickstart work on issues such as common disturbance agents, focal ecosystems or sub-regions within the Chapter, science needs, and coordination across organizations, or even other SER Chapter areas.\u00a0 We aren\u2019t looking for formal agreements, but avenues to mutually promote each other\u2019s work.\u00a0 The direction of these partnerships will be a product of the groups involved.\u00a0 If you want to suggest your company, organization, or agency to be involved, contact Greg!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Micro-communities<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not in the formal sense described at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ser.org\/page\/microcommunities\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.ser.org\/page\/microcommunities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0 but along the same lines.\u00a0 In many informal conversations I have had with members since I joined the Board in \u201922, many of you have suggested things you are interested in (related to restoration) and \/ or like to see the chapter engaged in.\u00a0 First response is, the Chapter is US!!\u00a0 Every one of us has a lot to juggle and it is great that you are contributing as members &#8211; just by doing the great work you do.\u00a0 But what are some other things we could try to help us achieve some of our Chapter objectives?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am proposing this:\u00a0 For non-Board members, identify your interest in any of these topics and we will connect you with other members interested.\u00a0 We will focus on activities that have more than a couple of folks expressing interest.\u00a0 Some basic instructions are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Develop the link to ecological restoration and chapter objectives<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Draft some goals, outcomes and objectives of what we want and could do with this topic \u2013 we need to be clear about the Chapter\u2019s role and obligation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have at least one member of your group present out at the Chapter meeting we will have as part of SER 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For any of tese, we will connect you with partners who are more directly involved in the topic area.\u00a0 Based on how these develop, we can explore turning these into a Sub-Committee per our Charter, and \/ or propose a new Committee for the Chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have listed a number of topics raised by members, and \/ or topics I see as relevant strategies to help us with our mission to raise awareness, support members, and promote high quality restoration. \u00a0 Feel free to suggest others!!<\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Youth<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Education programs with NGOs, Protected Areas, Extension\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Native Plant Material Coordination<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What level could we engage in?\u00a0 Who are the users and what are the needs?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recognizing communities &amp; partners<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This came from a couple of different angles.\u00a0 Ideas for thanking partners who host events. Ideas for acknowledging work done by our restoration partners<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bridge to other disciplines<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By resource discipline and by program area, so hydrologists, social scientists, soil scientists, and wetland specialists, range managers<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mentoring<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How could we set this up?\u00a0 Need to think through time and effort commitments, volunteer or reimbursed? Quality Control<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researcher-Practitioner Connections<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This could be as simple as using SER Connect, but a plan would help!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trainings<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interest in monitoring training has been raised.\u00a0 Suggest others like emerging hardware and software technologies, seed treatments\u2026.\u00a0 OK to generate a big wish list!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fundraising<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If anything, we would like to be seen as a group that can facilitate restoration &#8211; all facets.\u00a0 Being able to contribute cash to support partner efforts would help.\u00a0 So, not looking for donations but ideas for how we can identify and work with funding sources.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Restoration and Climate \u2013 related Adaptation<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Damaged sites are great places to test adaptation strategies.\u00a0 Having better information on data tools, decision frameworks and case studies, or chapter-specific ecosystem scenarios will promote field testing by practitioners.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Expanding coverage<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ideas include regional co-chairs for the Outreach Committee<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NOT YET BUT SOON: \u00a0 Students and Emerging Professionals \u2013 we are waiting on developments this spring with SER\u2019s uber committee that should facilitate chapter level efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please indicate your interest in any of these, or make suggestions through SER Connect!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Questions?\u00a0 (Likely).\u00a0 Contact Greg Eckert at gregeckert1@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","excerpt":"","slug":"ser-rocky-mountain-virtual-chapter-meeting","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2025-02-27 19:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"02","day":"27","hour":"19","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2025-02-27 20:30:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"02","day":"27","hour":"20","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2025-02-28 02:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"02","day":"28","hour":"02","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2025-02-28 03:30:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"02","day":"28","hour":"03","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Denver","timezone_abbr":"MST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_OTI0NTAxNDItZmYzZC00ZWY4LTgzODItMDgzM2Q1OTU1ODFm%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22c1ac16a5-6d06-4421-b8c8-69542a3732e5%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2287723b81-66bc-4b1d-af8e-8814bfd761b6%22%7d","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[],"tags":[],"venue":[],"organizer":[],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"SER Rocky Mountain Virtual Chapter Meeting","description":"&lt;p&gt;Please join us for an SER Rocky Mountains Chapter Updates on\u00a0February 27, at 7:00 pm.\u00a0 Agenda SER2025 planning update.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Note registration is open!!\u00a0https:\/\/ser2025.org\/ Announce nomination period for 3 Board positions and [&hellip;]&lt;\/p&gt;\\n","url":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/rockymountains\/event\/ser-rocky-mountain-virtual-chapter-meeting\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2025-02-27T19:00:00-07:00","endDate":"2025-02-27T20:30:00-07:00","performer":"Organization"}}