VIRGINIA
TECH OFFERS HABITAT
EVALUATION PROCEDURES
WORKSHOPS
BLACKSBURG,
Dec. 18, 2002 - Virginia
Tech’s Department
of Fisheries and Wildlife
Sciences and Outreach
Program Development
Office will offer
two workshops in 2003
on Habitat Evaluation
Procedures (HEP).
The workshops will
be held in San Diego,
California, March
3-7, and in Syracuse,
New York, July 14-18.
The
HEP workshops are
geared toward managers
who are required to
assess potential impacts
of projects on natural
habitats in order
to develop management
plans. HEP is a tested
and proven approach
to evaluating wildlife
habitat management
plans for assessing
potential impacts
of projects to wildlife,
and for developing
ways to compensate
for wildlife habitat
losses associated
with project impacts.
Since
1980, HEP has been
used to assess wildlife
impacts on both large
and small scale projects
in nearly every U.S.
state and several
Canadian provinces.
Instructors
for the workshops
include Dean Stauffer,
associate professor
of wildlife sciences
at Virginia Tech’s
College of Natural
Resources, and Richard
Stiehl, a senior wildlife
scientist from Bellingham,
Washington. With more
than 20 years of experience
in habitat-wildlife
relationships, Stauffer
has a special interest
in habitat assessment
and impact evaluation.
He has taught HEP
classes since 1991.
Stiehl has been working
with HEP for more
than 18 years and
has taught numerous
HEP courses. He has
been involved with
HEP applications for
various agencies over
the past 15 years
and served as HEP
coordinator for the
U.S. Geological Survey
for seven years. Stauffer
and Stiehl have conducted
more than 20 HEP classes
together.
The
fee for each workshop
is $695 and includes
workshop materials.
Registration and lodging
information can be
found online at http://www.conted.vt.edu/hep/.
For additional information,
contact Dean Stauffer
at (540)231-7349 or
e-mail dstauffe@vt.edu.
