Who Will Manage Our Natural Resources? First Special Session at Conference will examine personnel crises

摘要

Looming personnel crises in natural resource agencies will be the focus of the first Special Session at the 70th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, which will be held March 16-19, 2005, in Arlington, Virginia. Special Session #1—"Retirements and Outsourcing: Who Will Manage Our Natural Resources?"—will feature presentations that address the exodus of baby boomers from public service during the next 5-10 years. Additional presentations will consider the effects of outsourcingon professional management of natural resources, the role of the private sector in wildlife management, and succession planning in the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This Special Session, on Wednesday afternoon, March 16, will wrap up with an audience-participation panel to develop ideas for dealing with the imminent, wholesale changes.