February 22
Monday

• 12:00 PM3:00 PM
• Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative Steering Committee Meeting

• 3:00 PM5:30 PM
• Forest Service meeting

• 3:30 PM5:30 PM
• Great Basin Fire Science Exchange Steering Committee Meeting

February 23
Tuesday

• 8:00 AM10:00 AM
• Great Basin Research and Management Partnership Coordinating Committee Meeting

• 10:00 AM12:00 PM
• Great Basin Native Plant Project Steering Committee Meeting

• 11:00 AM1:00 PM
• Registration and Poster Set-up

• 1:00 PM1:15 PM
• Conference Purpose, Outcomes, and Introductions, Terry Messmer, Utah State University

• 1:15 PM1:30 PM
• Welcome by Director Greg Sheehan, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources WAFWA Representative

• 1:30 PM2:00 PM
• Janice Schneider, Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management of the U.S. Department of the Interior

• 2:00 PM2:30 PM
• Terrell Erickson, Director, Ecological Sciences Division, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service

• 2:30 PM3:00 PM
• Break

• 3:00 PM3:30 PM
• Secretarial Order 3336 Overview, Mike Haske, BLM Coordinator

• 3:30 PM4:00 PM
• Weed Summit Outcome, Ken Mayer, Ken Mayer & Associates, LLC

• 4:00 PM4:30 PM
• Sagebrush Restoration: Thinking Like a Manager, Alan Clark, Director, Watershed Restoration Initiative, Utah Department of Natural Resources

• 5:00 PM7:00 PM
• Poster Session and Social

February 24
Wednesday

• 8:00 AM9:30 AM
• Concurrent Sessions
  - Brome grasses: impacts, invasiveness, socioeconomics, and management prospects
  - Multi-species Management

• 9:30 AM10:00 AM
• Break

• 10:00 AM11:30 AM
• Concurrent Sessions
  - Brome grasses: impacts, invasiveness, socioeconomics, and management prospects (cont.)
  - Conifer Expansion: Science and Management

• 11:30 AM1:00 PM
• Lunch

• 11:30 AM1:00 PM
• Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Committee Lunch Meeting

• 1:00 PM2:30 PM
• Concurrent Sessions
  - Engaging Stakeholders - What works, what doesn't and why?
  - Putting Resilience and Resistance Concepts into Practice

• 2:30 PM3:00 PM
• Break

• 3:00 PM4:30 PM
• Concurrent Sessions
  - Traditional Knowledges for Resource Managers
  - Livestock Grazing and the Sagebrush Ecosystem: Policy and Management

• 5:00 PM7:00 PM
• Poster Session

February 25
Thursday

• 8:00 AM8:30 AM
• Keynote Speaker, The Honorable Gary R. Herbert, Governor of Utah

• 8:30 AM10:00 AM
• Concurrent Sessions
  - Hydrology of Sagebrush Ecosystems
  - Native Plants

• 10:00 AM10:30 AM
• Break

• 10:30 AM12:00 AM
• Concurrent Sessions
  - Livestock Grazing and Sagebrush Ecosystems: Science and Management
  - Seed Strategy

• 12:00 AM1:30 PM
• Lunch

• 1:30 PM3:00 PM
• Concurrent Sessions
  - Managing Wildfire
  - Vulnerability Assessments for Managers

• 3:00 PM3:30 PM
• Break

• 3:30 PM5:00 PM
• Concurrent Sessions
  - Invasive Plant Species
  - Landscape Conservation Design

• 5:00 PM
• Closing Plenary Session, Jim Lyons, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management, Department of the Interior

February 26
Friday

• 8:00 AM12:00 PM
• Secretarial Order 3336: Work Session
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