Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine graduating seniors’ career planning along with their proactive personality, motivation, and academic locus of control. Proactivity, motivation, and academic locus of control each focus on individuals exerting control in their environments. Even though all three variables had significant, positive relationships with career planning, motivation had the strongest relationship with career planning. The three most frequently used planning strategies were: creating a resume; internships; researching potential careers.

Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: Lesotho and South Africa have established the Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area (MDTFCA) to secure the biodiversity of this montane region, whilst contributing to its development imperatives. This paper explores the principle of “planning for implementation” as it was applied to the MDTFCA context, and thus highlights key lessons for future conservation efforts in the region. The MDTFCA, as with other regional conservation initiatives, is very complex. Its sheer size, population numbers, complex institutional environment and local-scale contextual differences resulted in a planning process that was designed to engage relevant stakeholders at key steps in the process. The premise was that if it was well-designed and implemented, it would facilitate consensus between this diverse set of programme partners. This consultation-based and data-driven planning process produced one product in the form of a long-term strategic framework and detailed programme of action for the next five years. However, despite the attempts to portray consensus, there are still a number of conflicting realities in the region. Most significantly, the conservation reality of “biodiversity under significant pressure” is in conflict with the contextual reality of “development imperatives and rapid land use change”. Unless conservation efforts identify ways to bridge these reality “gaps”, biodiversity realities will not become mainstream, and biodiversity targets will not be achieved.

Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: The National Fish Habitat Action Plan (Action Plan) is a national investment strategy to maximize the impact of conservation dollars on the ground. Under the Action Plan, federal, state, and privately-raised funds will be the foundation for building regional partnerships that address the Nation’s biggest fish habitat problems. Modeled after the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, this is the most comprehensive effort ever attempted to treat the causes of fish habitat decline, not just the symptoms. The goals of the Action Plan include establishing at least 12 regional partnerships - know as "Fish Habitat Partnerships" - who will be responsible for the assessment of regional habitat conditions, the prioritization of conservation needs, and the leveraging of resources to implement local projects to protect, restore, or enhance fish habitat. Through these Fish Habitat Partnerships, the Action Plan will achieve two other goals: protecting healthy and intact habitat and improving the condition of damaged priority habitats. Finally, the Action Plan requires a science-based approach to habitat conservation that will be facilitated by a national assessment of the condition of fish habitats, to be updated every 5 years. Federal, state, NGO, and private partners have been implementing the Action Plan since it was signed in April of 2006, and have achieved a number of milestones in that time. Much remains to be done, however, and in many ways the work has just begun.

Publication Type: Oral Presentation
Abstract: Where urban riverfronts used to be abandoned, derelict areas, people are now looking to restore their community’s waterway and link it with retail and residential areas of a city. Planners need to capture the imagination of the urban residents and connect urban dwellers with the fact that they live in a watershed. Recreation along rivers has been a success link establishing waterways value in urban settings.

The National Park Service’s Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program works with communities to create recreational opportunities and preserve greenspace. The presenters will relate their struggles and successes working to introduce the watershed concept to urban dwellers.

We begin with how individuals in an urban setting fit into the seemingly massive scope of watershed planning focusing on how to introduce the topics of watersheds planning, recreation, non-point source pollution, and green space preservation. A large part of the first session will be a discussion with the audience on their individual situations and concerns.

The next day will be a field trip to see the Rillito River in Tucson AZ. It is the latest public works improvement at Alvernon Bridge and the Brandi Fenton Park. The project blended the topics of recreation, transportation engineering, public works, history, and flood control. Participants will have the opportunity to walk along a river and see the possibilities for their own communities.